Project Management Internship

Opportunity:

Non-paid Internship – Project Management

 

Type: 

Full Time, 6-12 months.

 

Location:Halifax

 

Language:English – high level of fluency and communication is essential.

 

Financial Compensation:No financial compensation, a grant/sponsorship is required.

 

Criteria:

All candidates must be attending a higher education course where internship/placement is requisite for course qualification. A scholarship or grant programme must be in place for the required internship from a relevant programme such as Erasmus, Comenius, Youth in Action or European Community Leonardo da Vinci. 

 

Company:

Storm-7 Consulting Limited (Internship located at Halifax Sales and Marketing Office).

 

We are a financial consultancy company that provides cutting edge financial intelligence and knowledge to leading financial institutions around the world. We deliver premium quality conferences and events on cutting-edge legal and financial issues, and strive to provide access to crucial insight by leading experts on the latest complex regulatory developments.  

 

Internship Role Coverage:

The internship will cover a unique mixture of office administration tasks and in-depth office research and support responsibilities, alongside logistics and manpower management.

 

This will include:

• Efficient project management, administration and logistics.
• Management of “whole lifecycle” of a project from handover, to delivery of an energised scheme.
• Completion of all associated project contractual requirements i.e. operation, administration, communications and logistics.
• Client communications, verbal and administrative.
• Contract negotiation with the client under the supervision of managers.
• Execute project critical path analysis and project risk assessment.
• Execute mapping of project communications, milestones and timescales.
• Successfully manage issues and risks highlighted in the critical path analysis and project risk assessment towards meeting business/contract objectives.
• Financial analysis and management of project deliverables, including project contractual obligations and ensuring the project is maintained in a positive state for the duration of the project.
• Issuing reports, financial, logistical, and operational for all projects to senior directors.
• Managing the process and workflow of the project.
• Create, maintain and update a contract workflow and programme, and maintaining development.
• Collaborate with project management team to standardise project management processes.
• Meeting client expectations, timely liaison and ensuring projects are carried out in a competent and professional manner.
• Interface with stakeholders and understand project needs of each business involved.
• Manage the quality of project execution, including quality and timeliness of deliverables.
• Organise internal and external project meetings.
• Executing efficient organisation (logistics and administration).
• Database organisation e.g. statistics, metrics of project management.
• Office and resources organisation.
• Progress to understand the business strategy and the wider business issue.
• Operate efficiently and effectively on an autonomous level.
• Be a natural problem solver, rigorous planner and strong influencer.
• Discuss Project Management issues, budget and large data/metrics.
• High level of accuracy and excellent telephone manner.
• Excellent business communication.
• Demonstrate excellent IT skills.
• Show effective time management.
• Creating, managing and updating events schedules, product and services, client databases.
• Troubleshooting and problem solving.
• Database management; compiling reports, maintaining records and statistics.
• Organising, printing and collating materials.
• Maintain workflows, time-sensitive deadlines and advanced scheduling.

 

Fast pace and quick thinking required, as well as problem-solving. Successful candidate must have effective use of own initiative, and excel in communication and organisation.

 

Ideal characteristics for role: 

• Demonstrates our values in daily work ethic - professional, committed, dependable and intuitive.
• Excellent communication skills and personal qualities: persuasive, self-motivated and target driven.
• An inquisitive global outlook and self-awareness.
• Is proactive, curious and innovative in all areas.
• Demonstrate interpersonal skills, strong commercial acumen and a flair for problem solving.
• Strongly self-motivated, confident, articulate and willing to take on new challenges to completion.
• Needs to be confident and looking to develop an assertive approach.
• Strong communication skills.
• Strong marketing communications passion.
• Passion for building brand awareness and communicating differentiated key messages.
• Focus on communications and media outreach. 
• Demonstrable social media experience including the creation and effective use of varied content.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint. 

 

 

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA PRIOR TO APPLICATION:

 

• AN INTERNSHIP IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE AND PERFORM WITHIN A JOB ROLE/FUNCTION WITHIN AN OPERATING COMPANY (IT IS NOT A TRAINING PROGRAMME).
• YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO WORK EFFICIENTLY WITH ALL BASIC OFFICE ENVIRONMENT OPERATIONS AND PROCESSES, I.E. OFFICE BUSINESS APPLICATIONS, EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS, MEDIA PLATFORMS ETC.
• YOU MUST TO BE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE AT A FLUENT LEVEL (MINIMUM C2 LEVEL). THIS ROLE IS NOT AN OPPORTUNITY TO PRACTICE BASIC ENGLISH, BUT AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE YOUR BUSINESS FLUENCY.
• THIS INTERNSHIP IS UNPAID AND YOU WILL NEED TO SECURE AN ERASMUS GRANT/SCHOLARSHIP IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE.
• THIS INTERNSHIP IS BASED AT THE HALIFAX SALES AND MARKETING OFFICE IN UK.
• THIS ROLE IS IN HIGH DEMAND, SO YOU WILL BE TESTED AT THE END OF THE FIRST MONTH TO CONFIRM WHETHER YOU ARE AT A STANDARD TO PROCEED, AND RECEIVE ADVANCED IMPROVEMENT COACHING.
• WE SUPPORT, PROVIDE FOCUS AND ENHANCE HIGHLY MOTIVATED AND SELF-DRIVEN INDIVIDUALS TO A HIGHER LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE. THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE PROVIDED WITH SOLID INDUSTRY AND COMMERCIAL AWARENESS, AND ADVANCED PREPARATION FOR HIGHER LEVEL ROLES.
• THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE OTHER AVERAGE OFFICE EXPERIENCES. YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO PROACTIVELY CONTRIBUTE TO ALL OFFICE EFFICIENCES AND COMPANY GOALS.

 

ONLY SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION IF YOUR ATTRIBUTES MATCH THE REQUISITE CRITERIA.