Social Media Internship

Are you passionate about social media and have a keen interest in working in the charity sector? We have a great opportunity to learn the foundations of a social media role at one of the UK’s leading charities.

About the Internship role

We are looking for someone to join us as our new Social Media Intern. This will be an exciting and dynamic internship, giving you valuable experience across key areas within a social media role, including content creation, impactful story-telling and reporting.

This will be a 6-month paid placement that will start in September and run until March 2024.

You will be joining us at an inspiring time. As the social media intern, you will help to deliver two flagship fundraising campaigns; ‘Build it Beat it’ which will support with a new world-class Children’s Cancer Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital; and our much-loved Christmas Appeal.

You will also provide practical and administrative assistance to the social media and wider communications team and be happy to jump right in and learn along the way.

During your 6-month placement with the charity you’ll have the opportunity to come together with fellow interns and be supported by a tailored Learning & Development programme.

About You

You will be excited to gain experience in social media and how we can utilise these platforms for social change. You do not need previous experience working in social media but you do need to demonstrate understanding of using the key platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok).

You might also have the skills we’re looking for from your education, previous work, or volunteering experiences.

The ideal candidate will:

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  Have great communication skills; both written and verbal
• Be creative with experience in making social media videos such as Reels
• Be confident to speak with teams across the charity; in person, by phone or email
• Be able to react quickly and flexibly in order to adapt to a fast-paced role and take advantage of new opportunities

About the Charity

Every day brings new challenges at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). Every day, around 750 seriously ill children from across the UK arrive for life-changing treatments. Every day, young lives hang in the balance as patients, families and staff battle the most complex illnesses. And every day, the brightest minds come together to achieve pioneering medical breakthroughs that change lives and change the world. This extraordinary hospital has always depended on charitable support to give seriously ill children the best chance to fulfil their potential. Our staff help to raise these vital funds for the hospital. A better future for seriously ill children starts with you.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

We believe that GOSH Charity should be representative of the communities we work with and for and that we should all be striving for a more diverse and inclusive charity sector. We want to develop candidates who aren’t afforded a typical route into the charity sector and support you to build your career.

You can read more about our commitments to EDI in our EDI strategy on our website. For this reason, we strongly encourage applications from ethnically diverse Communities, the LGBTQ+ community, disabled people, neurodivergent people and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. No formal qualifications are required for this role.

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer, which means we will guarantee an interview for all disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria for this role. We are happy to discuss making any adjustments or accommodations that will support you during the application and interview process.

If you believe you would add value to GOSH Charity but don’t meet all the criteria we have laid out in this advert, we would still love to hear from you.

What we can offer you

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  30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) – (This will be 15 days for 6 months)
• A flexible approach to working arrangements.
• Access to our enhanced pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Discounted season ticket loan
• Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme

How to Apply

Please click on the apply button in the top right-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application process to complete where we ask a few key questions about your skills, reasons for applying to this internship and how you would bring value to GOSH.

Closing date: 23rd July 2023

Interview Process: TBC

Anticipated start date: 11th September 2023

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Due to the large number of applications that we receive, we are unfortunately unable to provide feedback on your application.