Main Duties and Responsibilities:

With ongoing support from the programme officer, your duties will include:

•  Leading the recruitment and onboarding of local schools onto the programme
• Building and maintaining strong, positive relationships with partner schools
• Providing guidance and support to schools to help their pupils through application and selection processes
• Administrative duties associated with event management e.g. sharing event details, risk assessments, etc. with engaged schools
• Other duties, commensurate with the grade and remit of the post

Depending on interest, experience, and availability, you may also:

• Support evaluation activities such as the delivery of focus groups with participants to guide future engagements with this audience
• Assist in the delivery of event activities

As part of the internship, you will be required to complete a reflective piece (such as a short, written case study) about your project and experience of the programme. Guidance on this will be provided to appointed candidates. 

As a student at the University of Sheffield, you will develop certain attributes throughout your time at Sheffield which are set out in the Sheffield Graduate Attributes. By undertaking this internship, you will develop the following attributes:

• Digital capability
• Interpersonal skills
• Working with others
• Equality and inclusion
• Personal development
• Enterprising

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including via email and telephone
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to communicate with individuals from diverse backgrounds
• Ability to use initiative and work independently, as well as part of a team
• Strong organisational skills e.g. ability to plan own workload, manage multiple responsibilities at once, and work to defined deadlines
• Demonstrate the ability to follow instructions with a high attention to detail

• Previous experience of working with schools, young people, and/or developing content to support others' development