Job Description

At On Purpose, we believe that to solve many of society’s biggest challenges we need to change the way that we do business. 

We run a unique one-year leadership programme that provides its “Associates” two full-time, paid work placements, half a day a week of training, fortnightly 1:1 mentoring sessions and quarterly 1:1 executive coaching sessions.

We are looking for an intern to run our bi-annual Associate recruitment campaign. The internship will be an opportunity for you to market the programme via our online and offline networks and to develop new content and channels to reach potential applicants, using your creativity and enthusiasm to maximise the number of exceptional applicants to the programme. 

On Purpose is focused on developing talented people who are embarking on a career in social enterprise, so we hope to be able to help you during your time with us regarding your professional and personal development. Beyond our Friday afternoon training sessions, delivered by industry experts, and attended by all our Associates, we’ll make sure you get exposure to parts of our varied and talented network that you’re curious about.

Job scope

Reporting to the Placement & Marketing Manager you will have day to day responsibility over the running of our recruitment campaign for the April ’15 Associate programme, including:
• Communicating recruitment information across a wide variety of platforms and partners (job boards, websites, blogs, social media etc)
• Research of new online and offline recruitment partners
• Content planning and creation
• Monitoring of web and social analytics to evaluate and improve campaign performance
• Communicating with, and responding to questions from, candidates in the recruitment process
• Planning and management of recruitment events
• Co-ordination of recruitment help from our network

Person profile

This role requires an individual who is both personable and professional, has a strong grasp of digital media, an understanding and interest in social enterprise and related areas and who is a first-rate communicator. In addition, in the small On Purpose team, we expect high levels or organisation, reliability, flexibility and attention to detail from all our colleagues.