Open Road is an award winning corporate communications agency with clients including Coca Cola, Asda, Eurostar, Amazon, VEVO, Airwave and AstraZeneca. We offer clients a range of corporate communications services including public affairs, media relations, corporate responsibility and stakeholder engagement.

We are looking for a motivated, creative and intelligent individual to join our internship programme. The internship programme takes place over three months.

The programme will involve:

• Working across a range of sectors, updating all consultants on client-relevant political, current affairs, media and communications industry developments in the UK and the EU
• Producing papers and updates on policy issues, media developments, and stakeholder lists covering media, industry and consumer groups, government and regulators
• Preparing detailed new business research and reports for consultants
• Preparation of regular - daily or weekly - bespoke monitoring reports for relevant clients
• Keeping abreast of the latest developments in corporate communications including in social media and digital communications

The ideal candidate will have:

• A strong interest in corporate communications, the media and political and current affairs
• Good working knowledge of UK political and media landscape
• Strong IT skills, Excel in particular
• Excellent writing skills, ability to produce reports and research digests to short timescales
• Attention to detail
• Hardworking and flexible attitude
• Ability to work within a team in a lively organisation
• Keen to learn and develop

Experience in a relevant role either in politics, Parliament, journalism, public relations, in-house communications or other relevant role would be an advantage.

Our employees are crucial to our business and we provide regular in-house and external training. We have a fun but hard working culture where we aim to give everyone as many opportunities to develop their careers and interests as possible.