Enternship: Bright London - Marketing & Events Assistant - June - Oct 2008 (possibly full time)

Date added: Monday, 9th June

Bright London is a revolutionary free service, backed by venture capital, that launched in April 2008 to help the graduates of Britain’s leading universities with their career decisions. This opportunity allows you to help develop this growing company and work alongside the CEO.

Dear Candidate,

Having developed your skills since leaving university, are you now ready for something that will continue to challenge you, whilst at the same time give you the rewards that come with taking responsibility in assisting on the execution of a dynamic and growing business? Do you want to help create an organisation that will help thousands of the brightest graduates fulfil their potential every year? Are you ready to help in the building of a ground breaking high growth business with proven successful entrepreneurs? If this sounds interesting and you’re a high-achiever focused on excellence, then this may be the role for you.

Bright London is a revolutionary free service, backed by venture capital, that launched in April 2008 to help the graduates of Britain’s leading universities with their career decisions.

The founders of Bright London have appreciated that as the ‘war for talent’ intensifies and the choices and opportunities available to the brightest graduates continue to multiply, they are understandably becoming more discerning over which paths to pursue and organisations they choose to join in the early stages of their career. They require high-quality, bespoke support that simply cannot be provided by conventional and generic graduate recruitment fairs, websites and consultancies. Through our sister organisation, Oxbridge Applications, we have helped over 35,000 students apply to Britain’s leading universities. Through our work with over 50 leading graduate recruiters (such as Goldman Sachs, PwC and Clifford Chance), the founders of Bright London have a full understanding of the needs of this elite talent pool from the ages of 17 – 26.

We are currently looking for one outstanding graduate to join our team as soon as possible, but we are willing to wait for the right candidate if notice is required on a current position. We are growing rapidly and there is significant scope for the successful candidate to grow with the business on a fast career trajectory.

If you would like to talk more about these opportunities, please call me on 020 7408 7271, or send your CV and a covering letter directly to me (james.uffindell@brightlondon.com).

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Best wishes,

James Uffindell
Company Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Start Date: ASAP (flexible)

Location: 13 -14 New Bond Street, London, W1S 3SX. Our office is situated in the heart of Mayfair with excellent transport links

Working hours: 8.30am – 6.00pm

Expenses: Full expenses and living allowance paid

Holiday: 25 days a year, plus bank holidays

Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer

The people we seek

The successful candidate will have a bias for action and will relish new challenges. You will already have office experience.

The non-negotiables:

We expect all candidates to meet the following essential requirements:

• An ambitious and ‘can-do’ approach that is focused on providing solutions
• An interest in helping graduates fulfil their potential
• Marketing (and preferably) events experience (this does not necessarily have to been in a paid role)
• An achieved II.i or higher from a leading university
• Commercial awareness and an interest in business
• Strong organisational skills, logical ability and reliability
• Flexibility - in a small business staff are involved in all areas of the work
• Understanding for when hard work is required
• Confidence to handle challenging situations
• Easy-going personality and sense of humour

Benefits:

• Working in an entrepreneurial, VC funded dynamic business
• Small team (six full-time staff) so real immediate responsibility
• Contact with clients and partners from a wide variety of backgrounds including leading FTSE 100 graduate recruiters
• Full training for the role from the CEO

Your Role

Your role will be to support the delivery of our services and the core Bright London team.

Your role will include:

Bright Events:
• Full event planning and execution
• Sourcing, screening and liaising with speakers
• Liaising with venues
• Production of event materials (e.g. event timetable)
• Leasing with firms

Sales and Marketing to firms:
• Hard (post) and soft (email) mailing executions
• Confirming pitch logistics with potential clients
• Ensuring pitchers are well prepared (screen shots/maps/print outs etc)
• Updating database with firm contacts following meetings

Candidate marketing:
• Inputting into candidate marketing strategy
• Candidate newsletter copy drafting and execution
• Event marketing and targeting

Bright Web (please note no technical skills are required for the below, just a willingness to learn):
• Constantly reviewing and analysing how we can improve our online offering (www.brightlondon.com)
• Monitoring and developing our Bright Wiki
• General website maintenance
• Uploading vacancies to the Bright Board

Account handling:
• Dedicated point of contact for our firm clients
• Firm newsletter execution
• Reporting to firms on the success of their Bright London campaigns

Extras:
• Research as and when needed
• General office management including phones and stationary
• Updating of our online internal management wiki
• Monitoring CEO’s email/diary/contacts

Conclusion

This is a superb role for an ambitious and motivated graduate looking to work in a fun, engaging culture alongside in a dynamic team with excellent prospects for rapid career progression.

We hope you apply.