Overview
The APCO Jakarta office offers internships to students year round. APCO’s internship program seeks to provide students or new graduates with a valuable and substantive work experience and strives to involve the interns in all aspects of the company. An intern is encouraged to attend staff and brainstorm meetings and will also potentially have the opportunity to attend client meetings. Interns are treated as professional staff and play a key role on client service teams. They typically focus on one of APCO's diverse client service groups while is also contributing to a wide range of project work in other areas. Client functional service groups include: Corporate Responsibility, Government Relations and Media Relations
Intern’s Responsibilities:
- The intern is responsible for supporting assigned staff on all projects. Specific responsibilities may include:
- Internet and ground research with respect to: political and economic analysis
- Issue analysis
- Industry analysis
- Company profile analysis
- Media monitoring
- Proposal writing
- Editing
- Writing research reports
- Interns report directly to assigned project staff and the internship coordinator.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree (or in progress) in Communications, International Relations, Political Science, Public Policy or related
- An understanding of regional economics and politics
- Excellent written and communications skills
- Ability to organize and multi–task on project requests
- Ability to work well with others in a team environment, as well as to work independently
- Self-motivated
- Professional demeanor
- Relevant professional or internship experience is highly desirable