Business/Marketing Assistant Intern

Location: Prague

Schedule:  20-40 hours/week (negotiable)

Deadline for application: 25 March 2016 

Transitions (TOL) is an international publishing and media development organization based in Prague and registered as a Czech nonprofit organization. Our mission is to improve the professionalism, independece, and impact in the news media in the 29 post-communist countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

This internship provides an introduction to business and marketing practices at an international publisher and training institution, as well as insights into social business and social entrepreneurship.

Internship responsibilities include:

Assisting on sales and marketing of training courses and Transitions Online magazine, as well as other products such as e-books and special reports;

Designing sales campaigns for magazine and training courses;

Searching for new business;

Executing sales and marketing campaigns (both via personal contact and creating/distributing promotional material), including through social media;

Updating sales records and customer databases;

Analyzing campaigns;

Processing sales orders;

Liaising with both potential and existing customers;

Researching for new clients (creating and updating lists).

Qualifications:

Previous experience in a business/marketing position is an advantage but not a requirement. We don’t require any language skills, but any knowledge of languages of our coverage region, especially Russian, would be very welcome.

How to apply:

 Please send your CV and brief motivation letter (A4 page max.) outlining why you are interested in joining our team to internships@tol.org.