Editorial Intern
Location: GB, ENG, London
Department: Student Beans Mag
Employment type: Other
Required experience: Internship
Required education: High School or equivalent
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Function: Writing/Editing
Company profile: The Beans Group is a media company that exists to empower young people to thrive.  We have been on an exponential growth spurt since our inception as #URL_8d1ca4faf2d2518ce9ec21b3fbe5c63e4b47f383d6bb1f0a681ff6cc801b4550# in 2005 and in 2013 we won Digital Business of the Year. The Beans Group owns two brands: Student Beans, our youth media brand, strives to make life a little more awesome; and Voxburner, our youth insights consultancy, helps young people to be understood.We have created a business we are passionate about and really proud of. To continue to grow we need brilliant people who inspire and deliver change all around them - that's why we're looking for talented, ambitious and creative folks to come and join us.
Description: The UK’s leading student website, Student Beans, is on the hunt for editorial interns to produce awesome, engaging and entertaining content, whilst learning loads about what it takes to run an in-house team of crack writers, getting their words and ideas out to the masses...The roleWe're looking to offer the UK's most exciting young writers the chance to come and work with us in our London HQ for two weeks. This internship won't be testing your ability to make tea (you'll have had plenty of experience in halls) but instead helping you flex your writing muscle in a fast-moving environment and popular website.The editorial team - as well as Student Beans as a whole - is growing significantly at the moment, so this would be a great opportunity for you to show us what you can do.In order to ensure that you learn as much as possible in exchange for your time, during the internship you would...be a fully fledged member of the team, with the opportunity to write compelling content which will be viewed by tens of thousands of people on the UK's biggest student sitebe invited to contribute to team meetings, including our daily ideas meeting where you would pitch possible articles be given the opportunity to assist the editorial team in other areas, such as creating the weekly newsletter or aiding with social media strategyThe CompanyStudent Beans is the UK’s leading student website. With over 2 million visits per month, the site saves students money with deals, discounts and money saving advice as well as offering them viral content and student life related articles. Essentially we do everything we can to make students’ lives a little more awesome.To ApplySend your CV, a covering letter, and links to at least two articles/examples of content you’ve created that you think would work for Student Beans.The internship is unpaid, but we have budget to cover travel and lunch.
Requirements: You are keen, eager and already writing (whether it be for your own blog, your uni paper or other websites)You can identify subjects that matter to the student demographic early and write about them in an intelligent and compelling way.You are a creative thinker, brimming with ideas.You have an excellent sense of humour.You think in pictures and so sourcing images is easy.You must be 18 or over.
Benefits: Multiple Award-Winning Company and Brands; Established Fan Base; Entrepreneurial Startup Culture with Security of being Fully-Self-Funded; Major Growth Plans; Awesome Team. Expenses covered.
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