Internships
Catalyst serves the social business sector, offering research, investment and consultancy services to a variety of social, ethical, and environmental businesses. Our work draws on our team’s experience in the worlds of investment banking, social entrepreneurship, international development, venture capital and the voluntary sector. Our role is to provide the information, advice, networks and, in the case of our fund management activities, capital to drive the growth of these businesses and the sector as a whole. We are often looking for enthusiastic and business-literate interns to help us with our various projects.
Available Internships
At the moment we are looking for two interns: a research and fundraising hero and a graphics hero. We are looking for heroes in particular because none of these jobs are easy and all of them will require a degree of courage and resilience. Please read the details below and then contact Julia if you think you have what it takes.
Research/fundraising hero:
Start date: As soon as possible
Duration: 6 weeks
Tasks
- Fundraising for www.socialinvestments.com. This will be your priority while you are working with us.
- Researching companies and news stories for www.socialinvestments.com.
Candidate Description
We are looking for people who fulfil the following criteria:
Essential
- You demonstrate good communication skills in order to fundraise for the organisation.
- You are professional in your attitude to fundraising in order to succeed in this challenging task.
- You are passionate about the social business sector.
- It is vital that you have good written English.
Desirable
- We would like you to demonstrate that you have carried out high quality financial research.
- We would appreciate it if our interns were accomplished at using Microsoft Office.
- It will be beneficial if you have experience of working with the internet.
- You should be an independent worker who is able to come up with ideas for our organisation.
We like to recruit people who are intellectually curious, diligent and thorough- or at least strive to be these things!
Graphics hero
Start date: 01/07/2008
Duration: 6 weeks
Tasks
- Use opensource software to come up with clear graphics depicting the social business sector, for internal use and (if of sufficient quality) for publication on socialinvestments.com
- Come up with own ideas for graphics
Candidate Description
We are looking for people who fulfil the following criteria:
Essential
- Have experience of using either Photoshop or Opensource equivalents to come up with graphics
- Powerpoint skills also a must
- Imaginative
- Professional attitude
- You must be passionate about the social business sector.
- It is vital that you have good written English.
Desirable
- It will be beneficial if you have experience of working with the internet.
- You should be an independent worker who is able to come up with ideas for our organisation.
We like to recruit people who are intellectually curious, diligent and thorough- or at least strive to be these things!
Hours and pay
Internships are mutually beneficial and are intended to be a fair deal: all interns should have the capacity to produce quality work that adds to Catalyst’s offering. In return we provide exposure to the social business sector, our way of working, and to our clients.
This role would be ideal for someone studying for a related undergraduate or postgraduate degree and we are willing to discuss making this role a more formal ‘placement’ as part of your studies.
The internship is unpaid and we will reimburse interns for travel and lunch expenses.
All internships are for a minimum of 6 weeks over the summer, working 3-5 days a week.
Background and experience
We are looking for candidates with the following qualities:
- Interest in the issues involved in the social business sector
- Business literate
- Fluent English – clear written English is particularly important
- Good university degree
- Proven competence with office software
- Motivated – can-do attitude
- Ability to work under pressure
- Good teamwork and communication skills
- Sense of humour
How to apply
Interested applicants are asked to submit the following to Julia Meek (at julia@catfund.com):
- Covering letter (stating your availability, goals for the internship, and where you heard about Catalyst)
- CV
- Short writing sample(or, in the case of the graphics hero, an example of your design work)
We look forward to hearing from you.
Catalyst Fund Management & Research Ltd is regulated by The FSA.