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Reference: 40364

Date Added: 21 May 2013
Closing Date: 27 May 2013

Job Title: Intern

Working For: Dods Monitoring

Location: London

Salary: National minimum wage - £6.19 per hour

Length of Contract:

Job Details

Our market-leading monitoring and intelligence ensures our clients stay ahead of political developments. We provide fast, focused and comprehensive information and insight on the activities of legislatures, government and executive agencies and stakeholders to a range of clients across different sectors.

This internship opportunity will be ideal for a graduate seeking to start a career in politics or communications. We aim to provide our interns with an excellent grounding in desk based research and the news cycle. They will be a part of the team, doing what we do and helping to deliver an outstanding service to our clients.

Responsibilities and requirements

The successful candidate will work across our large and thriving team and be involved in:

- Sourcing and distributing important political content, including press releases and social media
- Monitoring live events within the Houses of Parliament, such as oral question sessions
- Contributing to research tasks for clients across a variety of areas
- Developing the activity and following of our Twitter account

The ideal candidate will have a keen interest in politics, experience of conducting desk based research and working knowledge of twitter and other social media. They will be required to demonstrate initiative, work to tight deadlines and operate efficiently within a team.

Closing Date: 27 May 2013

Interview/Start Dates

Interviews will take place during w/c May 27.

The internship begins at the beginning of June for two months.

Application Details

Please send us a copy of your CV and a covering letter stating why you would be interested in undertaking an internship at Dods to nicola.matthews@dods.co.uk.

Website: http://www.dodsmonitoring.com/home/

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