Stakeholder Engagement Internship

Stakeholder Engagement Internship

Are you looking for a summer placement that puts you right at the heart of a world leading science campus?

This role offers a unique opportunity to help deliver high profile visits from senior government, industry leaders and key partners, giving you behind the scenes access to some of the UK’s most exciting scientific facilities. You’ll play a hands-on role in shaping these engagements while building your confidence, organisational skills and insight into how national science strategy is developed and communicated.

Our Strategy, Planning and Communications (SPC) Directorate brings together the essential functions that are needed to help shape, communicate and monitor progress against STFC’s strategic plans. Our role is to enable the organisation to determine its strategic direction and translate this into a coherent set of plans, communicating these across the organisation.

In SPC, open communication and mutual support are encouraged. We are always looking to build positive change in our Directorate: our teams cultivate a safe environment and are ambitious in our actions to challenge inequities when we find them.

This placement will sit within the Partnerships and Insights (P&I) team within SPC. This team focuses on strategic partnership development for STFC, with key partners including those within HM Government, Higher Education Institutions, Public Sector Research Establishments, and the wider UKRI ecosystem. P&I gathers insight on behalf of STFC and ensures that this insight is co-ordinated across the organisation, to maximise strategic opportunities. The placement student will be supported to work across the team and develop their skills in a range of environments and contexts with a primary focus on delivering on campus engagements with senior stakeholders.

Summer Placements at STFC

STFC’s incredibly diverse range of placements allow you to work alongside world leading engineers, scientists, and technicians in highly collaborative environments. Whichever you choose, you will become a critical member of the team in which you will be exposed to exciting projects and challenges from the start. You will also be supported every step of the way by our dedicated Early Careers Development Team.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Supporting the delivery of on campus engagements from senior stakeholders and STFC partner organisations including organising scheduling meetings, organising meeting rooms, catering for key strategic engagements and supporting the on the day engagement delivery.
• Supporting with the development of the P+I portal – the team’s repository of information and insights to support and develop our engagement with our strategic partners. This will include updating key staff members biographies and facility information, for use in strategic engagement briefings.
• Administrative support for members of the P+I team in delivering the wider programme of activities according to current priorities.
• Working collaboratively with other members of the P+I team and SPC, to include attending team and directorate meetings, shadowing members of staff, and observing strategic engagements.

Person Specification

The below criteria will be scored during Shortlisting (S), Interview (I) or both (S&I).

In order to apply for the role we are looking for the following:

Essential:

• You are in full time education at university, and will be returning to university/your studies to complete your undergraduate degree once the summer placement has concluded (S)
• You have the right to live and work in the UK for the duration of the placement (S)
• Good communication skills, ability to create clear and concise written documents such as emails, reports and memos (S/I)
• Ability to be proactive and make informed decisions, knowing when to seek guidance from others (S/I)
• Able to work collaboratively; committed to working effectively with others towards a shared goal (S/I)
• Good planning, time management, organisational skills with an attention to detail (S/I)
• Strong digital literacy, with experience in using Word, Excel, Outlook and SharePoint (S/I)
• Willingness to lead on work that falls within scope, such as collating and preparing a range of materials (S/I)

Employee Benefits

We are offering a fixed term position with a whole host of benefits including:

• 30 days holiday pro rata
• Flexible working hours.
• Easily accessible public transport links/ free parking.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities.

As this job does not fulfil the UK Government minimum criterion for obtaining sponsored migrant worker status, we will be unable to apply for sponsorship for anyone not eligible to work in the UK. At interview, all shortlisted candidates are required to bring with them identification documents and original documents that prove they hold or can obtain the right to work in the UK.

Application Guidance

Please note that we can only accept a maximum of 2 applications per candidate.

Part of our application process involves submitting your CV and a cover letter. Your cover letter should address your suitability for the opportunity based how you meet each essential criteria stated in this advert.

Please note that we hold the right to close this vacancy early if a sufficient number of applications have been received.

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About Us

UKRI - UK Research and InnovationUKRI is an organisation that brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England and Innovate UK. Together, we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision ensuring the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation.Supporting some of the world’s most exciting and challenging research projects, we develop and operate some of the most remarkable scientific facilities in the world. We are pushing the frontiers of human knowledge through fundamental research and delivering benefits for UK society and the economy through world-class research, skills and business-led innovation.More information can be found at www.ukri.org.

Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlement, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. For more details, visit benefits of working for UKRI.

How we support EDI in the workforce

At UKRI, we believe that everyone has a right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to be provided with equal opportunities to thrive and succeed in an environment that enables them to do so. We also value diversity of thought and experience within inclusive groups, organisations and the wider community. For further information, please visit ‘How we support EDI in the workforce’.

Disability Confident Employer

As users of the disability confident scheme, any candidate who opts into the scheme and best meets the essential criteria, will be shortlisted for interview. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Application Process

Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfill the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered.

Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the ‘experience’ section of the application.UKRI seeks to ensure it creates and maintains a system of openness, fairness and inclusion – a collaborative, trusted environment, which is attractive to and accessible to everyone who is interested in developing their career with us.

The role holder will be required to have the appropriate level of security screening/vetting required for the role. UKRI reserves the right to run or re-run security clearance as required during the course of employment.

How to apply

To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button. Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.