Job Detail
Job Description
Job Description:
Communications Internship Job Description
Payment: Real Living Wage rate of £12.00 per hour
Accountable to: Euan’s Guide
Contract: 420 hours, equivalent of 12 weeks full time or part time over 6 months
Location: Hybrid between our office 38 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR and home working.
Organisation profile:
Euan’s Guide is the disabled access charity. Our main activity is a review website used by disabled people, their friends and families to review, share and discover accessible places. The charity now has thousands of disabled access reviews and listings for places all over the UK and beyond.
Our Website: www.euansguide.com
Internship overview
We’re a small team of 7 and looking for a Communications Intern to help us out on all aspects of our work, whether that’s our award-winning website, our Red Cord Card campaign to make accessible toilets safer, or our Euan’s Guide Ambassador Network. You’ll mainly be working alongside the Communications Manager but as a small charity you’ll probably work with us all at some point!
Main duties and tasks
Your role will include:
• Day to day engagement with our users using social media (mainly Twitter, Facebook and Instagram). This will include publicising new reviews from the site, answering questions, and finding relevant content to share.
• You’ll be producing content for our website – including regular news articles & features.
• Producing external content about Euan’s Guide tailored to our partners’ requirements and occasional press publications – both on and offline.
• You’ll also help with producing regular newsletters for our reviewers, venues and partners – writing content and sourcing images.
• You’ll be proof reading content for web, print and publications.
• You’ll engage with our users whether they’re Ambassadors, Reviewers or Venues and you might be speaking to them about Red Cord Cards, donations or funding.
• You’ll also be an integral part of the ‘web test team’ for new functionality and new site releases.
You might also find yourself occasionally moderating a review or two, getting involved in one of our events or helping with some admin.
Our intern roles are tailored to individuals so please do let us know whether there are any areas of Marketing & Communications you’d like to focus on – there’s always loads to do so we’ll do our best to accommodate you!
Person Specification
Essential skills and experience:
• An interest in writing a good story and a desire to have your words published
• Good communication skills and awareness of how to tailor communications to different audiences/ different purposes
• Good planning and organisational skills, including ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines, with appropriate support.
• Good IT skills with the ability to use Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• You should have an interest in and understanding of disabled access, Inclusion and Equality – or be willing to learn.
• Ability to use good judgement to independently to make decisions, resolve problems, and when to seek further guidance or advice.
• Ability to work effectively and flexibly as a member of a team.
• Have a clear need for the opportunity, and be able to show how it will help you overcome barriers to achieving your career goals. (this is assessed in the sections motivation for applying, skills development, and current employment status.)
• Must define as Deaf or disabled which includes physical, sensory and mental impairments, autistic spectrum, learning disabilities, learning difficulties such as dyslexia or long term health conditions. (You do not need to give details in the supporting statement unless you wish to. If you do, this will not be removed from the application before the shortlisting panel sees it.)
Desirable:
• Experience using social media accounts such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
• Familiarity with review websites like Trip Advisor, Amazon, Yelp, Google.
Additional Information
Download full job description here: Communications Internship Job description
If you would like to discuss this opportunity with the employer prior to submitting your application, please contact: Antonia Lee-Bapty: antonia@euansguide.com or 0131 510 5106
Please send completed application to Ellis Moffat at email: interns@inclusionscotland.org no later than 10 a.m. on Monday 29 July
How To Apply:
Step One:
Download our Internship Application Pack below or you can request one by emailing us at interns@inclustionscotland.org. This will allow you to access a folder containing the following documents in Microsoft Word format:
- Internship Application Form
- Plain Text Internship Application Form
- Internship Candidate Privacy Notice
If you require this in an alternative format, please get in touch by email.
Step Two:
Read all the documents carefully. Fill in and save a copy of either the ‘Internship Application Form’ or the ‘Plain Text Internship Application Form’. For the Supporting Statement section, please remember to match your skills, knowledge and experience to those listed in the Person Specifications of the Job Description.
Step Three:
Return the ‘Internship Application Form’ or ‘Plain Text Internship Application Form’ via email to interns@inclusionscotland.org before the deadline.
Downloads:
By clicking on the Download Now! button you will be downloading a zip folder. To access these documents, you will need to double click on the folder.
Internship Application Pack