Efi Research and Communications Intern

3 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Please note this role is only open to current University of Edinburgh students**

**UE05 £24,285 - £27,929 per annum, pro-rata**

**Edinburgh Futures Institute**

**Fixed Term Contract
- 7 Hours per week**

**1 **st **February - 31 July 2023**

**This internship is only open to current University of Edinburgh PG students who will be based in the UK for the duration of the internship.**

We are looking for a skilled writer to support the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) Research team to highlight examples of research activities and promote our successes on our website and social media.

**The Opportunity**:
This post supports the EFI Research team which aims at enabling interdisciplinary research across all areas of the University of Edinburgh, encouraging collaboration between the arts, humanities and the social sciences with data science, engineering, the natural sciences and medicine.
- Write compelling stories and narratives that highlight EFI’s ambition to produce research outputs with meaningful, sustained and measurable impact in society;
- Organise short interviews with project leads and stakeholders, draft structured content and edit and agree final drafts;
- Develop and pitch new content ideas and gain valuable communications/marketing content experience;
- Support the EFI Communications Team with copy/content writing, editing and layout, image selection, web publishing and comms planning.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- 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
- A creative approach to problem-solving, with the ability to identify the best way to approach a task
- Ability to conduct online research, synthesise information and summarise findings in a clear and concise format for a lay audience

Click **here **for a copy of the full job description

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
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.

Interviews will be held by the end of **January.**

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages. Please also note that you are only eligible for this opportunity if you are a current University of Edinburgh PG student, who will be based in the UK for the duration of the internship.

The University will employ full-time PG students for no more than an average of 9 hours per week across the academic year (as per its policy ), and you must make sure any employment complies with any visa or funding conditions you may have.

Should you be successful, you will require written confirmation from your academic supervisor that you can undertake the internship. We recommend that students discuss the internship with their supervisor, as well as with their employer, before applying.

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