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Employ.ed on Campus internships are ONLY open to 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh based in the UK.
We are looking for two highly-organised and innovative students with strong interpersonal & communication skills, interested in assisting with projects related to building, maintaining, and providing services for the EFI Business Engagement (EFI BE) team and clients.
The Opportunity
These posts will support the mission of the EFI Business Engagement Team: to build & maintain a challenge-led portfolio of activity with demonstrable ethical, social, cultural, economic and environmental impacts. We do this in the context of the University’s Data Driven Innovation (DDI) Programme, by engaging with organisations across EFI’s key target DDI sectors (Financial Services and Fintech, the Creative Industries, Public Services, and Tourism, Travel & Festivals).
These internships will come at a crucial time for the team, as we will be preparing for the EFI building to open and further articulating our proposition for communities related to the above sectors. These posts will assist the dynamic EFI BE team across a range of activity which may include discrete projects, research, events, and marketing & promotion. Previous interns for our team have created newsletter templates, designed case studies, and completed research projects.
Employ.ed on Campus is run by the Careers Service in collaboration with University departments and Schools. It offers exclusive summer internships at the University over the summer for 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh.
Your Skills and Attributes
- Comfortable engaging with businesses & communities
- Strong interpersonal skills, friendly
- Highly organised while also being flexible to dynamic work requirements
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills with a range of stakeholders, with strong written English language skills
- A self-motivated and enthusiastic team player with the ability to work independently
What you can expect
Working with an inclusive and friendly team on exciting projects which align with the ethos of EFI: Challenge, create, and change with kindness, humility, and persistence in a highly participatory way. The work will contribute to envisioning, experimenting, prototyping, and/or evaluating from new perspectives, to make better futures.
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Employ.ed on Campus is run by the Careers Service in collaboration with University departments and Schools. It offers exclusive summer internships at the University over the summer for 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh.
As well as great work experience, the Careers Service provides supporting resources, this is combined with a framework to support the development of participants’ employability and self-reflection with an Edinburgh Award as part of the internship.
Interviews will be held in April 2023. If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK.
The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Employ.ed on Campus internships are ONLY open to 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh based in the UK. You cannot take part if you are a visiting student, or you have already taken part in the programme before.
