Circle of Friends Ltd – Marketing, Youth Outreach, Counselling & Social Work Intern

The Job Descriptions of the 2 interns are for Marketing, Outreach, Counselling & Social Work:

COMMUNITY YOUTH OUTREACH PROGRAM INTERN

• Attracting Youth at Risk and volunteers for COF activities
• Recruitment of volunteers from industry, schools, universities or the community, as well as management of the volunteer database
• Supporting Marketing Executive in fundraising, networking, and promotion initiatives 
• Organising COF activities and training events (planning, implementation and evaluation of activities and training programs, managing events, sourcing suppliers and trainers, measure program effectiveness and offer suggestions for improvements)
• General administrative works
• Comply with all relevant SOPs
• Expectations: organised, reliable, thorough, working well within the deadlines, attention to detail, team-player, communication, negotiation, creative, 44 hrs work week, may be required to work on weekends during events.

MARKETING and SOCIAL WORK INTERN

• Fundraising (planning and executing fundraising efforts and activities, assisting in events/ projects) 
• Public Relations / Communications (targeting prospective donors/supporters, creating marketing material incl. a quarterly newsletter)
• Account management (building relationship with Youth at Risk donors, supporters and partners, managing donors’ database and regular communications via correspondence/networking)
• Attracting Youth at Risk and volunteers for COF activities
• Support staff in COF marketing and communication initiatives
• Identifying innovative incubator projects (research, feedback, market survey) and selection, induction and training of suitable candidates (Youth at Risk) for those projects
• Finding investors and other stakeholders (public and/ or private), building relationships with them and formulating the agreements with them for the incubator project (e.g. MOU)
• Befriending, coaching and mentoring of the Youth at Risk
• Facilitating successful transition from incubator to SME
• Follow-up with the SME and offering guidance
• General administrative works
• Comply with all relevant SOPs
• Expectations: focus, communication, strong people skills (extrovert), negotiation and persuasion, team-player, creative, experience with social media, 44 hrs work week, may be required to work on weekends during events.

Needless to say they will be offered permanent jobs if their placements was successful.