Corporate Messaging & Campaigns Intern 12-month placement 2024-2025

Job Description

At AXA IM, we act for human progress by investing for what matters, actively and responsibly. Join us and youll build a career in a truly diverse, entrepreneurial organization. Youll be part of a mission to tackle some of the worlds most stimulatingchallenges, pushing boundaries and exploring fresh ideas that aim to deliver long-term prosperity.The Corporate Messaging & Campaigns Intern performs an important support role for the CM&C team, taking responsibility for a range of administrative functions (project management, financial/budgetary administration, meeting agendas, minutes and action plans,team organisation and work planning, WIP tracking), as well as supporting the permanent team on projects such as the Sound Progress podcast, the production management of campaign assets, and the creation of measurement and feedback material. The intern isalso responsible (with oversight) for the production of the quarterly updated corporate presentation. A capable and competent intern, who is willing to learn and take responsibility, can take a significant administrative burden from the permanent team, allowing them to focus on the results-focused work which delivers our communications campaigns. Description of the department: The Corporate Messaging and Campaigns team exists to lead the planning, development, management and execution of integrated communications campaigns that seek to bring to life our areas of strategic focus as well as our purpose - to act for human progress byinvesting for what matters. The team consists of four people: Global Head of Corporate Messaging and Campaigns, Senior Corporate Messaging and Campaigns Manager, Corporate Campaigns Manager and the Corporate Messaging Intern as support. Our mission is to create and evolve AXA IMs editorial line on key topics in close collaboration with the four Business Units and business families to showcase AXA IMs convictions and purpose in action. Our goal is to develop and drive AXA IMs top-level corporatemessaging and campaigns - creating stories and engaging content that brings our brand to life and communicating transparently on how we are taking action to achieve our goals, uncovering stories and creating hero assets that complement campaigns in a compelling,human way. We work with all our communications colleagues (Internal Communications, Media Relations, Brand & Design, Web & Social Media) as well as other stakeholders such as marketing teams, investment teams, corporate responsibility teams globally and locally. Our campaigns work sits alongside a range of business as usual work, such as - Cross-channel communications activities which support initiatives led by our internal stakeholders (such as Corporate Responsibility initiatives, the AXA IM Investment Institute). - Creating, curating and distributing corporate materials - Measuring the impact of our communications activity The CM&C Intern will have a unique opportunity to work in a small, strategic and dynamic team - positioned centrally in a larger global communications team - providing excellent experience working across multiple communications and marketing functions, as wemould AXA IMs corporate communications calendar and campaign strategy. The role will also give the Intern opportunities to get involved with and gain exposure to wider team initiatives via working groups and the teams meeting governance role. We run several working groups, which aid in streamlining campaign progress, and bringall the teams involved together to facilitate project delivery. Beyond this, the Intern will have access to a fully-rounded, whole-business view, learning from colleagues from business units and transversal functions, as well as on occasion from the AXA Group as well. The main responsibilities of the role:

• Support the implementation of corporate communications projects, such as podcasts, reports, etc.
• Project manage corporate communications projects to ensure deadlines are met and projects are moving forward in line with the campaign. This in turn gives exposure to different parts of the business and other comms teams.
• Participate in idea generation and content creation (including key messages, blog posts, reports, and briefs) for communications campaigns with internal colleagues and agencies.
• Lead on quarterly updates of the corporate materials which provides an overview of the business and managing ad-hoc requests/ changes.
• Provide support on budgetary control of communications campaigns.
• Act as secretary to meetings, drafting agendas and taking minutes to be distributed amongst attendees.
• Support the team in administration tasks, such as organizing meetings, diaries and work plans.
• Support the creation of measurement and feedback material after a project or campaign has finished, to report on progress, successes and improvements to be made

Your ProfileShare your unique expertise:Profile:

• Education : Will have completed second year at university, preferably with Politics, Marketing/Communications, Business, and Economics or related subjects (but not compulsory).
• T echnical skills: MS Office (Teams, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint) , Optional: UpSlide.
• Key Competencies :
  • An interest in communications, asset management and sustainability
  • Solid project management skills, organizational ability, attention to detail, and time management.
  • Good writing and communication skills.
  • Enthusiastic and positive, with a collaborative mindset, a team player, with a strong work ethic, and ability to multitask, able to work autonomously (with support from the team).
• Languages : English required (native), French desirable but not essential.
• Desirable skills/experience :
  • Basic understanding of investment management, with knowledge of common phrases/acronyms used within the industry.
  • Interest in global trends affecting society, e.g. economics, sustainability/climate change, diversity & inclusion, and technology.

Please join us to realize your potential to drive progress, for yourself, our clients and the world in which we live.About AXAThe AXA Group is a global leader in insurance and asset management, with 160,000 employees serving 105 million customers in 62 countrie