Efi Business Engagement Intern

2 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Grade UE03: £21,978 to £22,681 per annum (A revised salary range for this grade of £22,214 to £24,248 is planned to take effect from Spring 2024)**

**Edinburgh Futures Institute**

**Full-time: 35 hours per week**

**Fixed-term Internship: From 3 **rd **June 2024 for 12 weeks**

**Vacancies available: 2
**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.**

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. You cannot take part if you are a visiting student, or you have already taken part in the programme before. 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.

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 (Tourism, Travel & Festivals, the Creative Industries, Financial Services and Fintech, and Public Services).

These internships will come at a crucial time for the team, as we have recently begun working in the EFI building and will soon open it to a wider audience. These post-holders will help us further articulate 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 contributed to events series, designed case studies, and completed research projects in a broad range of topics and sectors.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:
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.

**Click **here **to view a copy of the full job description **(opens new browser tab).

**As a valued member of our team 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.
- A competitive salary.
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our **staff benefits page **(opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.

**Championing equality, diversity and inclusion**

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.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work webpages **(opens new browser tab).

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

Interviews will be held **in April 2024.



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