Internship Program: Marketing Communications Intern

Role Description Summary – Full Time Position / 12 Months Contract

The Marketing Communications intern role is a new role within the Central Marketing Group.  This role is perfect for a marketing graduate keen to get hands on experience in a fast paced multi faceted marketing department.

The ideal candidate will be a marketing graduate with a strong passion for technology and great communication and teamwork skills.  The successful candidate will need to work with multiple members of the Marketing team and also within the broader Microsoft business.

This Internship provides the successful candidate with the opportunity to build a significant set of skills in relation to marketing, establish themselves as a confident and accomplished team member and gain an understanding of how and organisation like Microsoft operates. After one year of working you will have:

• Observed many best practices from one of the world’s leading corporations
• Developed skills in relation to marketing, event management and technology
• Have driven specific projects to completion and have measures of success

Responsibilities of this role will include, but are not limited to:

Skills & Competencies:

·           Passion for marketing:  Keenness to get involved in all aspects of the marketing discipline.

·           Excellent communication skills: The ability to communicate with a wide range of internal stakeholders plus external agency partners.

·           Excellent team work: Ability to be an involved and active team member.

·           Work to deadline: Ability to work to stakeholder deadlines and inform stakeholders of progress against those deadlines.

·           Be proactive: Ability to recognise new opportunities.

Requirements for Application:

The successful candidate must have NZ Citizenship or NZ Permanent Residency and must be able to start on Monday 8^th January 2007. Please note that this role will be based in the Microsoft Auckland office and is a fixed 12 month internship with Microsoft.

Remuneration:

This role has very competitive remuneration.

Application has now closed. THe next- intake will start JULY 2007