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• Paid Editorial Internship at New Internationalist magazine

Paid Sales & Marketing Internship

4 days/week for 1 year
Location: Oxford

The New Internationalist is looking for an intern to work four days a week as part of the sales & marketing team. We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with particular interest in digital activities such as ebook distribution, online shop sales & marketing and content management.

The paid post lasts for a year, and begins on or near 18^th June 2012. Please see the job description below for details.

To apply, please send an email marked ‘sales & marketing internship application’ to Dan Raymond-Barker at danrb (at) newint.org including:

- a CV, including referees
- a covering letter explaining why you would like to work for the New Internationalist and how you meet our 'desirable skills' criteria.

Closing date for applications: midday, Friday 1^st June 2012.
Interviews (please keep this date free): Thursday 14^th June 2012

Please note: Applications will only be accepted from those who have permission to work in the UK. Successful applicants would be expected to make their own accommodation arrangements in Oxford.

Period of internship and working hours
The internship will run from mid June 2012 to mid June 2013. This is a 4-days per week (28 hours) position.

Description
Books sales & marketing (2 days per week)
• Managing sales material (AIs, sell sheets etc) distribution.
Creating sales material (AIs, sell sheets etc) and sending it to our distributors worldwide; managing sales & marketing data on various platforms; taking existing copy and following a template to give full instructions to our studio to design the material or designing the material yourself using InDesign; distribution of hard copies or PDFs.

• Working on our ebooks programme.
Creating web-ready PDFs to specification, loading them as necessary onto distributors and vendors websites and ftp servers along with all relevant meta-data.

• Supporting publicity and promotion.
Researching & implementing social media marketing activities; liaising with external publicists to supply relevant materials; managing author questionnaires and reacting to opportunities as they come up; researching academic contacts for course adoptions; keeping our publishing site up-to-date.

Online shop maintenance (1 day per week)
• Monitoring the three online web shops
These are New Internationalist, Amnesty Trading and Friends of the Earth shops. Using Magento software, the sites need to kept fresh, adding products, improving copy, adding information and responding to requests for change.

• Assisting the Mail Order Group in other tasks that will help sales, especially during the critical pre-Xmas period.

Magazine content management (1 day per week)
• Preparing our magazine articles for our website.
Converting articles from our magazine into a format suitable for publishing on the web, using our user-friendly Content Management System.

In addition:
There are other areas where you would be able to help out as time and experience allows, and there are the usual administrative tasks that everyone does. You will attend regular Publications and Mail Order business activity group meetings and weekly Co-op meetings.

Desirable skills

Photoshop
Indesign
Understanding of social media marketing
Experience of content management systems
Effective copy-writing
Creative ideas
Confident communication
Awareness and support of the New Internationalist Co-operative's mission to

support human rights & social and environmental justice.
Pay
Pay is in line with Oxford City Council Living Wage guidelines: £8.01 per hour, or £11,662 per year, based on the working hours indicated above. No overtime payments will be made. Statutory deductions will be made for Income Tax and National Insurance and payment will be made on the nearest working day to the 28th of each month.

Holiday leave
Annual holiday leave is 20 days based on the working hours indicated above.

Review of work
Reviews of work will be carried out every three months with the day-to-day manager. This is an opportunity for the intern to assess their work and see how to develop their skills, and to agree targets and objectives. Their day-to-day manager may give feedback from other members of the Co-op.

Editorial Internship at New Internationalist magazine

The New Internationalist is looking for a full-time intern to join the editorial team in Oxford. We are looking for someone with journalistic flair and a passion for communicating the people, ideas and action in the fight for global justice.

The paid post lasts for a year, and begins on 25 July 2012. Please see the job description below for details.

To apply, please send an email marked ‘editorial internship application’ to Anna Weston at annaw (at) newint.org including:
- a CV, including referees
- a sample of your journalistic work, no more than 750 words long
- a covering letter explaining why you would like to work for the New Internationalist and how you meet our desirable skills criteria.

Closing date for applications: Monday 14th May 2012 at 12:00am.
Interviews (please keep this date free): Tuesday 22 May 2012

Please note: Applications will only be accepted from those who have permission to work in the UK. Successful applicants would be expected to make their own accommodation arrangements in Oxford.

Job description

Period of internship and working hours
The internship will run from 25 July 2012 to 31 July 2013. This is a full-time placement (35 hours per week). The first three days will be a handover period with the previous intern.

Description of tasks & reporting
The work will be managed by one of the New Internationalist co-editors, but the intern can expect to work on projects with all the magazine editors over the year’s placement.
In general, the work will cover the following areas:

1. Online publishing
• Editing and uploading blogs/articles to the website
• Pitching article ideas and blogging regularly

2. Magazine
• Conducting research to support content published in the magazine and on the website
• Writing for the Agenda section of the magazine
• Pitching feature ideas for magazine content

3. Images
• Photo research for the magazine
• Sourcing and uploading images to the web content and slideshow

4. Promotion
• Managing NI’s social media sites (Twitter, Facebook etc) in partnership with the marketing team, ensuring editorial material is promoted daily in order to expand the sites’ reach and increase web traffic

5. Other
• Administrative support for the Editorial Team (minimal)
• Attend Editorial Team meetings

The intern’s work will be divided roughly into 60% on the website and 40% on the magazine.

The intern will also be assigned specific tasks as they are required, where we will try to take account of existing skills, interests and experience.

The New Internationalist is a workers’ co-operative. As well as attending regular Editorial Team meetings, the intern will also attend a monthly Co-op meeting when the Team reports to the rest of the Co-op. The intern may be invited, or may request, to join other Co-op meetings or meetings of Business Activity Groups.

Pay
The intern will be paid in line with Oxford City Council Living Wage guidelines i.e. £14,578.20, based on the working hours indicated above. No overtime payments will be made. Statutory deductions will be made for Income Tax and National Insurance and payment will be made into the intern’s bank account on the nearest working day to the 28th of each month.

Holiday leave
Annual holiday leave is 25 days. In addition, the office is closed between Christmas and New Year.

Review of work
Reviews of work will be carried out every three months with the day-to-day manager. This is an opportunity for the intern to assess their work and see how to develop their skills, and to agree targets and objectives. Their day-to-day manager may give feedback from other members of the Co-op.

II) Desired skill set

Excellent writing ability, preferably demonstrated via published work
Some experience of editing and subbing
Blogging and multimedia skills
Excellent understanding of social media tools
Ability to process and summarize information quickly
Ability to work to deadlines
Ability to work as part of a team
A passion for progressive politics and media, and commitment to the principles that inform the work of the New Internationalist Co-operative. See our mission statement

Added advantage if you have:
• Experience of innovative online publishing, eg Live blogs
• Experience of online editing and basic HTML