InvestIN Education Summer Programme Management Internship 2023 Job Description and Person Specification

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About InvestIN Education

InvestIN Education is a dynamic educational start-up that provides inspirational career experience programmes for school students. Founded in 2012, InvestIN's mission is to bridge the gap between school and the workplace, in order to help students choose the right career and maximise their potential.

InvestIN creates the ‘ultimate career experience' through a combination of interactive simulations, site visits, seminars, networking sessions and career coaching, led by highly accomplished industry professionals. We have had over 50,000 students from 100+ countries and 4,000+ schools attend our online and in-person programmes, including our premium Summer Experiences, where students join us for 5, 10 or 15-day immersive experiences across 15 fields and undertake exciting site visits whilst working with industry leaders and building an understanding of their dream career.

Why work with us?

InvestIN is an exciting, fast-paced and supportive environment, and working with us as a Summer Intern offers fantastic opportunities. Not only will you rapidly develop crucial workplace skills through your work with us in programme management and delivery and events management, but we offer the invaluable opportunity to learn from and network with our expert team and highly accomplished industry professionals in your field of interest.

Our comprehensive training programme will teach you valuable skills in:

• Programme management and events operations
• Leadership, communication, public speaking
• Multi-tasking and problem solving
• External Safeguarding and First Aid qualifications

We also support our team throughout summer with regular check ins and staff socials.

The Role

Main duties

Our interns will be matched to one of our premium career experiences, in which they will support the InvestIN team and take ownership in key areas:

• PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT: logistical organisation and planning of complex multiple day events throughout London
• PROGRAMME DELIVERY: delivering presentations and simulations to up to 200 students in person or as part of our online offering
• PEOPLE MANAGEMENT: day-to-day management of our programme delivery teams, stakeholder management, liaising with professionals delivering sessions and overseeing large groups of students aged 12-18, including supporting with wellbeing and safeguarding

For a full list of the career experiences you may support on, head to https://investin.org/collections/our-programmes.

What would a normal day look like?

While no two days running our Summer Experiences are the same, tasks on a typical day as a Summer Intern might include:

• Working with a Programme Manager to prepare for the day, including managing resources and logistics and various administrative tasks
• Taking responsibility for the wellbeing of students on your programme as you travel across London to one of our world-class venues
• Problem-solving and liaising with venue staff to ensure the smooth running of the day
• Meeting with our inspiring professional speakers ahead of the session
• Facilitating the delivery of the day, including running icebreaker activities
• Overall time-management of the day, ensuring sessions run to time and safeguarding student well-being by coordinating regular breaks
• Delegating tasks to others on the programme delivery team and taking overall ownership of ensuring our student enjoy a 5* experience

Person specification

You are an ambitious and detail-oriented university student looking to gain experience in delivering complex live events and programmes. You thrive under pressure and love to work in a busy, fast-paced environment. You are a fast learner who is enthusiastic, proactive and great at taking initiative.

You enjoy inspiring school-aged students and demonstrate a high level of ownership and professionalism when approaching your work. You are excited to work with a rapidly scaling start-up aiming to support school students aged 12-18 in achieving their dream careers.

You have, and can demonstrate, the following skills and interests:

• Experience in delivering or supporting with live in-person events or programmes
• Experience and enjoyment of working with students aged between 12-18
• An enjoyment of fast-paced environments and ability to work under pressure
• Ability to develop new skills and competencies on a daily basis
• Fantastic organisational skills, ability to balance multiple priorities and dedication to attention to detail
• A high level of vigilance when working with young or vulnerable people and working knowledge of safeguarding for 12-18 year olds
• Experience of working with and leading a team
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills including strong public speaking skills
• Highly proficient with Zoom
• A deeply-entrenched sense of personal pride in your work, and a commitment to giving students a 5* experience in every interaction
• A deeply-invested belief in InvestIN's sense of purpose and our programmes
• You feel a sense of passion and belonging when you read our cultural values (set out below)

Details of internship

Location: Bloomsbury, Central London

Hours: 9am – 6pm, 5 days per week with 2 days off per week. Please note regular weekend work will be required to suit the needs of programmes you will be assigned to support.

You will accrue Annual Leave throughout your internship at a standard rate (25 days per year pro-ratad)

Salary: £1,500 - £1,750 per calendar month (£18,000 - £21,000 pa full-time equivalent)

Contract: fixed term, 6 to 12 weeks over June and August 2023

Additional: international students on visas which allow them to work full-time over university holidays will be able to apply for this position.

We also welcome applications from students who have just completed first year of university and fresh graduates.

Offers will be subject to successful completion of training, including Safeguarding training and DBS checks

InvestIN's Cultural Values

Experience is Truth:

We believe that to learn is to experience. Our mission is to deliver professional experiences to young people that they would otherwise consider a far-flung fantasy. This ‘experiential learning' appeals to all the senses and requires live in-person interaction; providing a welcome counterpoint to the restrictive and atomised environment of cyberspace.

Empowerment and Ownership:

We treat all of our students as young professionals, not simply older schoolchildren. InvestIN empowers students by thrusting them into a whirlwind of professional-life simulation, and asking them to stand up and be counted. Along with that empowerment comes the valuable lessons of responsibility. Students are expected to take ownership of their careers immediately, as we give them detailed advice about how to plant the seeds for a successful future; starting now.

Action and Urgency:

InvestIN believes that success requires both action and urgency. We have been able to grow at an exponential rate because we move ideas quickly into tangible steps forward and we execute them. InvestIN's students refuse to be left behind and want to be able to cut through abstract procrastination; becoming empowered to act with decisiveness and urgency.

Ambition:

InvestIN is a fervent supporter of determined ambition. We believe that young people - and whole organisations - must continue to ‘think big' in order to achieve their potential. We therefore coach our students to believe that there are no limits to their career ambitions, and give them the tools they need to thrive.

Imagination:

InvestIN is not an ordinary organisation. We create interactive simulations of professional life, which requires a commitment to using our imagination to deliver extraordinary experiences for our students. At the same time, we encourage our students to imagine themselves as young professionals now, not at some distant point in the future. We have discovered that tomorrow's achievements are born from today's visualisation.

Integrity:

At InvestIN, we understand the great responsibility that we take on in coaching students. Sometimes the simplest sentence or action can have a lasting impact on a young person's life. We insist on running our operation with the highest level of integrity: from promoting the value of hard work and satisfaction over shortcuts and monetary rewards, to constantly looking at ways to reduce our carbon footprint.