About the opportunity:
- Assist with initiatives and campaigns that contribute to EDC’s Social Value
Ambitions and Placemaking Strategies and Action Plans, including both within
the placemaking function, wider EDC work, with our suppliers and developers;
and through community organisations, the voluntary sector, schools and other
third sector organisations. - Assist EDC teams with creating, organising, facilitating, promoting and
attending, initiatives, events and campaigns driving community cohesion,
healthy living, education and skills, cultural development and environmental,
net-zero and sustainability activities, to ensure our action plans are
implemented. - Collect and input Social Value data from across the business, suppliers and
developers into the Social Value Portal to measure and report the place-based
impact of Ebbsfleet’s development. - Identify and build internal relationships with EDC teams in order to foster buyin
to existing and future Social Value initiatives. - Actively promote the use of EDC’s social value matching platform (Match My
Project) to community groups and suppliers to encourage take up and
maximise social value delivered. - Contribute news-worthy information on EDC’s activities to the Head of
Marketing and Communication.
Information about the role:
Position: Summer intern
Salary: National Living Wage
Location: The Observatory, Castle Hill
Closing date: Tuesday 22nd April 2025
Interviews: Tuesday 29th April 2025
Contract length: 12 weeks, aligned with term dates
Who we’re looking for:
In line with our Inclusive Growth Strategy, this role is offered to Undergraduate students whose home address is in Dartford or Gravesham Boroughs as a priority, although other students who would usually live in Kent or who study at Kent Universities (including the University of Greenwich, University of Creative Arts), may also apply.
Relevant study programmes may include Anthropology, Human Geography, Economics/business/marketing, Architecture, Sociology, Corporate Responsibility,
Politics, Planning or similar subjects. Candidates should have a passion for working with people, through community development, economic growth and assisting community groups and local residents to thrive. Candidates should also have a desire to make an impact in the local area by driving social value and corporate responsibility.