Are you someone who keeps refreshing media apps and is completely absorbed in the latest news? Do you enjoy following politicians from The Hague and do you know what is going on in the Netherlands? Do you know the ins and outs of well-known campaigns and social media hypes? Would you like to get a story in the newspaper? Do you get energy from organizations and companies that are fully committed to a better society? And are you ready for a serious challenge where you can try out and learn a lot of new things? If you recognize this, we will hopefully be your colleagues and internship supervisor from January 2024!
We are Issue Makers; strategic communications advisors, with a strong sense of content. Together with our clients, we formulate or refine social ambitions and then translate them into a positive impact for organizations and society. In this way we want to help accelerate social transitions. Together with clients who want to have an impact, we work on solutions for the challenges of today and the future. We do this by monitoring, managing and creating issues. And based on a broad discipline
transcendent approach.
And we are looking for an enthusiastic, socially driven and independently working intern who can support us in various (communication) activities. A curious intern who wants to tackle all kinds of different things, who works proactively, loves to sift through information and enjoys working on all kinds of different assignments at the same time. We offer you a very diverse internship where you can roll up your sleeves.
What are you going to do with us?
No day is the same. Sometimes you are busy for 1 or 2 large clients, sometimes perhaps for 5 smaller ones at the same time. Sometimes we have to stand still for a while, on other days we run together for a customer. Your planning sometimes needs to be revised, because a colleague or client requires this urgently.
During your internship you may well do at least the following things once:
• Compiling substantive files for various clients, about them
social issue, news facts and more.
• (Under supervision) drafting (press) texts, sending press releases.
• Monitoring various media and other sources for clients.
• Overall support for the account teams, for example by supporting training
or meeting, by reporting, by making presentations, by issuing invitations
questions, to brainstorm and advise and more.
• Participate in our internal profiling team, create a newsletter or messages for our
own website or social media channels.
• Support in organizing our Issue Conference, the annual Issue Lecture or another,
own event.
What can you expect from us?
An internship is successful if both you and we benefit from it and learn something from it. We would love it if you enjoy working with us, but you can also expect things from us, such as:
• Good guidance from a permanent colleague who will show you the ropes in the beginning and will always be with you
you can go to.
• A safe working environment with an eye for diversity and inclusion, with a clear policy regarding this
transgressive behavior and open conversations about these topics.
• The space to give your feedback and to indicate what you would like to learn/where you are
would like to participate.
• All kinds of knowledge sessions, lunch lectures and other meetings in which you can participate.
• An internship allowance of €500 per month
What do we expect from you?
• You are socially driven/interested
• You can plan and organize well and are flexible to deviate from this
• You have a good command of Dutch – and preferably also English – both spoken and written
• You are communicative and social
• You are driven, curious and inventive
• You are proactive and enterprising
• You want to learn things and enjoy sharing your knowledge and insights with us
• You have knowledge of social media
• You have an affinity with communication, media and politics
• You are following a bachelor's or master's degree and want a minimum of 4 months (and preferably full-time) internship
walk with us. We can discuss together when you start.
Finally, we note that as Issuemakers we like to connect with the diverse society we work for. We look forward to welcoming more diverse perspectives and backgrounds to our team. But to be honest: at the moment we are still quite a homogeneous group of people. If you look at the photos on our website and think: that's not me! Then we cordially invite you to apply. Hopefully we can all learn something from it!
And? Would you like to do an internship with us? Then we invite you to send an application letter including CV to before December 15. Would you like to ask something before you apply? That is of course also possible. Then call Marit van der Veldt +31 (0)20 3455088 .