Marketing and Communications Placement
by Oracle
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About Oracle
From the data center to the cloud, Oracle is eliminating the complexity that stifles business innovation. By simplifying the business environment, Oracle enables its customers—400,000 of them across a wide variety of industries in more than 145 countries—to innovate faster and create added value for their own customers.
Oracle helps customers reduce complexity and achieve business agility with a comprehensive and fully integrated set of cloud applications across Sales, Marketing, Service, Finance, HR, Manufacturing and Logistics and much more.
The UK business is at the forefront of innovation, working with clients in every industry to improve efficiency and the way they provide service to their customers. As we make UK businesses more competitive on the national and international stage, we are looking for energetic and bright people to help us make our sales organisation more effective.
Marketing and Communications Placement
Oracle is looking for motivated, ambitious university student or soon to be graduate to join us for a 12-month internship.
Are you passionate about Media/Communications and are you excited by technology? Are you motivated, confident and articulate? Do you want a placement where you are given real responsibility and expected to deliver results? Is the answer yes to these questions? …..Then read on.
We are looking for individuals studying for a University degree in Journalism or Media and Communications (or similar) to join our Internal Communications team. You’ll be fluent in English and want to help drive employee engagement through great communication, using all the modern tools and techniques you’d expect from a world class technology company.
The Programme
This is a 12 month paid Internship. While working with Oracle, you will take part in communication training and work on projects where you’ll make a real impact.
You will be based at our Reading Campus, a short (free) bus ride from Reading Station or at our London Moorgate office, a short walk from Moorgate or Liverpool Street tube stations.
What you will gain:
- How to put theoretical knowledge into practice
- Real experience of working in a fast-paced business environment
- Coaching and input from a top-class comms team
What we are looking for:
- Undergraduate student with an Industrial Placement requirement.
- A self-motivated individual with the ability to work as part of a team.
- Strong writing and editing skills with superb attention to detail.
- Good IT skills including basic knowledge of HTML, Photoshop and Video editing software
- Experience of working on large scale events
- Some experience of writing/blogging is desirable and some international experience would be an advantage
Other Information:
All training will be provided in best practice communication planning, modern writing styles, tone of voice, branding, tools and platforms to enhance existing knowledge.
There are three main areas where this knowledge will be put into practice:
Supporting High Profile Internal Events:
The Internal Communications team are responsible for a number of exciting LIVE all employee Townhalls each year. These events help staff understand our strategy and priorities, showcase our technologies and build a sense of pride in working for Oracle.
Working with the communication team you will help deliver four of these events including; agreeing objectives and messaging, developing impactful communication plans, writing engaging material, creating innovative content using video, social media, mobile apps and powerpoint; completing event logistics and collecting and analysing feedback to optimise future Townhalls.
Social Digital Media:
The world of work is changing fast – in fact faster than ever before. Internal Communication needs to be responsive to the changing communication needs of our workforce. One element of this is looking to the future and planning how best to harness new opportunities tools and techniques.
In your first few months you’ll work with the Head of Internal Comms and the EMEA Social Media Manager to review the current use of social and digital in the UK. By actively engaging and posting on our current platform you’ll make recommendations for how optimise its use in the UK.
You will also study how other best of breed companies are innovating to improve employee engagement and exploring for example what opportunities tools such as Snapchat, hold for our business in the future.
Our expectation is that you will create a written report with your recommendations to the Head of Internal Communications at the end of your placement.
Communication of Key Charity Initiatives:
At Oracle, we know it’s important to be a successful business, but we also know we have a responsibility to the wider community. You will help work on the communication plan and content for two of our UK charity partners fundraisers; the Prince’s Trust Palace to Palace Bike Ride and Comic Reliefs Red Nose Day 2018.
Working with the wider charity teams your role will be to help drive maximum participation and fundraising. You’ll need to use all your communication knowledge and expertise, bags of energy, a sense of fun and hard work but we’re sure you’ll find your participation both rewarding and fulfilling.
Oracle – Engineered for SUCCESS:
- A challenging job in a positive atmosphere within an international organization with a dynamic team
- The opportunity to influence your job and your workplace and to become part of a innovative business unit
- A competitive compensation package that is aligned with your qualifications and includes an employee benefits scheme
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