Role Title: Education Team Internship
Department: Innovation Lab
Salary: London Living Wage £9.75 - £365.63 per week
Term: 6 months - Friday 7 April 2017 and end date Friday 6 Oct 2017
Hours: Full-time 37.5 per week
Location: Blackfriars, London
Deadline: 10pm, Sunday 12th March 2017
Nesta is an innovation charity with a mission to help people and organisations bring great ideas to life. Funded by an endowment, Nesta works in the UK and abroad on a wide variety of projects and topics.
We are looking for an enthusiastic intern to join the education team in Nesta’s Innovation Lab.
The next century will see rapid technological change. Thirty-five per cent of jobs are at risk of computerisation within the next 20 years, so the jobs we know today will not be the jobs of tomorrow. At Nesta, we’re interested in what skills and subjects to teach for this automated future as well as how technology can empower teachers and enable effective learning.
We are looking for an intern to assist with both research and practical work across a range of topics, including STEAM learning, problem solving and collaboration, education technology (edtech), and volunteer-powered education initiatives.
We are a small but fun team of three, and we link up regularly with Nesta’s other education experts in investments and policy and research. Our team is part of the Innovation Lab (there’s about 45 of us) and so you’ll also get to be part of the Lab’s regular training, external seminars and team lunches, so you’ll quickly feel part of the gang.
The role would cover a number of areas:
- Assisting with research into practical opportunities to support collaborative problem solving and future skills. We have a new report on this topic and will be building a coalition of partners to try out some practical work on promoting collaborative problem solving in the classroom.
- Assisting with the development of our Rocket Fund prototype, from to helping our product manager with testing and solution design, to teacher liaison and running workshops
- Project management support across our education work, including arranging and contributing to internal and external meetings and supporting the promotion and delivery of a small number of high quality events (roundtables and report launches) for external audiences.
- You’ll help organise events, including supporting with a major Nesta education event in the summer that works across The Lab, Impact Investments and Policy and Research teams.
The Candidate
- An inquisitive mind with an interest in education and innovation (education or tech knowledge desirable).
- Degree educated, with sound desk based research experience and the ability to share your findings in short and sharp research reports and blogs.
- Aptitude for co-ordinating events with the public / different stakeholders. (experience desirable)
- A completer-finisher, organised and with a good attention to detail
- A self-starter, willing to get stuck in, chase up leads and pick up the phone when needed
- Good interpersonal skills: pro-active in listening, working with others and contributing to meetings
- Good IT skills (including Microsoft Word, Powerpoint & Excel, using web for research and social media). Experience with Google docs and Google mail would be advantageous.
About Nesta
Nesta is the UK’s innovation foundation. We help people and organisations bring great ideas to life. We do this by providing investments and grants and mobilising research, networks and skills. We are an independent charity (registered with charity number 1144091) and our work is enabled by an endowment from the National Lottery. All of The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts’ activities, contracts and staff were transferred to this new charity and a new charitable trust on 1 April 2012.
We achieve our mission through a combination of four core capabilities:
- Generating new knowledge and insights about how innovation happens in the economy, society and public services, and making this knowledge available and accessible.
- Supporting skills, methods, tools and capacity to innovate, both in leading edge fields (from digital technology to creative industries) and in fields where innovation is less supported (such as local government).
- Linking diverse networks of people and organisations, and using our convening power to open up new possibilities and to help with implementation and diffusion of innovations.
- Helping fund innovative ventures, projects and programmes, particularly ones focused on solving compelling problems. We do this as an investor, a grant-giver, and through programmes that combine a mix of types of support.
Application Process:
1. Applicants should apply with their most up to date CV only, no cover letter required at this stage.
2. All CVs will be filtered and screened by the University of London’s Internship Team.
3. Once the Internships team at the University have filtered and screened all the applications; they will call all the suitable applicants over the phone. Unfortunately due to the high number of applications that we receive, we can only call the most suitable candidates.
4. All of the successful candidates will be notified of the application process by the 16th March 2017.
All applications for all of the Internship vacancies at Nesta will be managed by the University of London, Internship team. Therefore, if you have any problems with applying or questions regarding the placement, Nesta ask that you contact the University of London Internships team directly. Any candidates that contact Nesta directly may be missed in the application process.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 10pm, Sunday 12th March 2017
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http://tempjobs.london.ac.uk/UCL/Vacancies/VacancyDetails.asp?VacancyID=5631