Pr and Communications Intern

**COUNTER CONTEXT: Internship Program**

**The Opportunity**

Are you ambitious and seeking hands-on experience within the UK's most exciting renewable energy, major infrastructure, regeneration and transport projects?

Counter Context exists in the place where politics meets real life. Sustainable solutions are needed more now than ever, and the clients and projects we support help to build a better tomorrow. Our work helps to bridge the gap between communities and the nationally significant infrastructure projects that will help us to make significant changes and shape the UK's communities.

We are looking for Interns to join our supportive and tight-knit team of communications professionals for up to 12 weeks. Our internship is perfect for someone who wants to enhance their CV or as a gateway into a career in communications at Counter Context.

During the internship, you could be undertaking research to inform a communications strategy, helping to plan a community event or inputting data as part of a project's feedback analysis.

We seek positive, hardworking, and enthusiastic people who want to make a difference.

**The Role**.

Your internship will involve:

- **Research and insight gathering **- undertaking research to help the formulation of communications strategies, including political research, local community mapping and research into industry trends.
- **Event planning and support** - supporting our Account Executives with planning stakeholder events, public exhibitions and webinars. This may involve organising venues, catering, logistics, producing risk assessments etc., as well as providing support at the events.
- **Stakeholder communication management** - keeping databases of political, business and community stakeholders accurate and up-to-date, managing returned mail and managing the mail of consultation materials to stakeholders
- **Reporting - **using both qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse consultation feedback and reporting the results back to clients, informing the future of their projects.

**The Offer**

We are proud to be part of the Living Wage Foundation; we offer participants of our internship program £12.00 per hour.

Hours of work: Our program hours run Monday to Friday, 9pm
- 5pm in our Sheffield City Centre office.

Most importantly, we offer you an opportunity to experience working in our growing agency and within a close-knit team who work hard, care for each other and want to make a difference. We have been trading successfully for nearly 30 years. The last three years have been our most successful ever. We're looking to hear from people passionate about being part of this and growing with us.

Counter Context is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by the Equality Act 2010.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organisation, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Counter Context makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 weeks

Pay: £12.00 per hour

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Application question(s):

- Do you live local to or; are you able to travel daily to our office in Sheffield S2?

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 2024INTERNCCAUTUMN