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Ambitious, inspiring, meaningful: if you’re looking for an editorial internship that matches your personality and gives you hands-on, real-world training, then Longitude wants to hear from you. We’re a unique business that combines editorial excellence with outstanding client experience, and we promise to equip you with the fundamental skills needed to excel in your future career - no matter where life takes you.
Longitude is the specialist thought leadership division of the Financial Times. This means we work with high-profile, global companies to develop unique insights and thinking that helps shape the way the business world operates. Women at work, innovating for sustainability, and the new expectations for the workplace are just a few of the recent topics we’ve covered, and we’re looking for creative thinkers who can help deliver new ideas for our clients.
In addition to ideas generation, the editorial intern will assist our team on articles, podcasts, digital content, client presentations and much more.
What you will be responsible for
As part of our team, your responsibilities will include:
- Building our portfolio of ‘best practice’ examples (formats, topics, new angles)
- Providing copywriting support, especially on digital content, as well as general editorial support (proofreading, reference- and data-checking, etc.)
- Providing general support on our new products, including podcasts and data visualisation
- Working with our editors to write / design presentations in powerpoint or infogram
- Shadowing / conducting interviews as part of project research
- Drafting entries for newsletters features
- Supporting the editorial blog programme
- Providing support to wider company initiatives e.g. charity team events
Why intern with Longitude?
An internship at Longitude will follow a defined development path that gives you the skills and experiences needed to achieve your longer-term career aspirations. And you’ll be joining a smart, professional and energetic bunch. We work together to build something meaningful, and we maintain a strong, engaging culture that motivates and inspires our team to do great work and learn new things to help develop our careers. We also take the time to celebrate our successes along the way.
The programme
Interns will be hired with a view to offering them a full-time, permanent role on completion. The six-month programme has rotational elements that aim to give a high-level holistic view of the company. Most importantly, it will equip them with the training/tools to effectively support their primary department from the outset.
The six-month placement will include
- Onboarding and orientation - meeting key members of the team and getting an induction into the key processes.
- Weekly mentoring and training - designed to establish basic skills necessary to confidently support the team E.g. email/comms; excel/powerpoint; questioning colleagues on a brief; asking for feedback, presentations etc.
- Career foundations - in addition to projects and work within your core department, regular shadowing and projects in key departments will deliver a broad understanding of the company (our core values, what we do, end-to-end processes etc.)
- Hands-on work - the placement will predominantly focus on meaningful tasks/project work within your core department.
This is a hybrid position starting ASAP which requires you to work in our London office a couple of days a week.
Further information
The FT are committed to providing an inclusive working environment for all. We are an equal opportunities employer who seeks to recruit and appoint the best talent regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We also promote flexible working and will consider specific requests around flexibility for all roles where it can be accommodated. Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements, or have any questions, please contact a member of our HR team who will be happy to help.
