Public Relations Intern

You have a passion to lead

You’re ready to start your career in PR, and you want to make sure you find the right place to nurture your ambitions. You want to have fun and to make sure your voice is heard, and most importantly, you want to learn about how the communications industry works from the inside.

We are seeking intelligent, purpose-driven and ambitious interns like you to support our client servicing teams across a range of clients in the fast-moving technology sector. Ideally, you should be a geek at heart, tech enthusiast, keen to work with teams from across the world, and have an appetite for working in a fast-paced environment. Interest in the communications, creative and technology industries will be an advantage.

The Plot Thickens: Job Description

The intern will be assigned to support client servicing tasks, with the opportunity to gain communications experience by providing support to the client accounts team especially in client campaigns, media relations and content marketing activities that make an impact for our clients.

You’ll have the opportunity to get involved with and develop skills in:

• Media relations: Monitor editorial opportunities and flag them to the office, research media contacts, compile media contact lists for pitching and create reporter briefing sheets
• Media outreach: Develop media pitches and invites, including follow up and securing media interest
• New business: Pull together preliminary research to contribute to new business pitches
• Content development: Draft press releases, bylines and social copies where required
• Speaking and awards: Create and update yearly calendars with speaking and awards opportunities, pull together abstracts as required
• Events and media production support: Sourcing vendors for internal and external events, seminars and activities, vendor liaison and on-site support for production of video
• Employee engagement: Supporting internal engagement activities such as social activities and internal training programmes

Attributes of the Protagonist (That’s You)

• Able to commit 6 - 12 months full-time
• A passion for media relations, digital and social marketing
• Strong administration skills
• A “can do” attitude

The Hero’s Background: Qualifications

• Good command of spoken and written English
• Good planning, organisational and research skills
• The ability to work independently, but you also know when to escalate issues and seek help and support
• Computer literacy in Microsoft such as Teams, Word, Excel and Outlook
• Interest in the communications and technology industry, with a love for innovation, will be advantageous.
  

Come join us and be at the forefront of marketing and communications, and work with industry-leading tech brands. We value diverse thinking, inclusion in decision making and embrace ideas that push the boundaries.

About Us 

We're an integrated communications consultancy that specializes in solving hard problems — the tougher, the better — for tech companies. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we’ve established a global infrastructure tuned for the tech industry. Toward this end, we operate offices in Boston, Beijing, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, London, Munich, Paris, Portland, San Jose, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Shenzhen, Taipei and Tokyo.

We’re a company that values diversity and inclusion. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all individuals irrespective of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability status, veteran status or any other characteristic.

For more information,visit https://www.hoffman.com/ and https://www.apac.hoffman.com/