Marketing and Communications Intern

Salary Competitive

SHIFT Business Festival is a two-day Business Festival hosting 3000 radical innovators and decision makers who want to shape a better future through intelligent business and deep technology. SHIFT brings together groundbreaking technologies with leaders of traditional industries. The program provides glimpses of the future of intelligent tech and its business applications, as well as insight into how industries can utilize deep technology to accelerate sustainable change while making profit.


SHIFT Business Festival, Marketing And Communications Intern, spring 2020


Are you looking for an internship for your marketing and/or communications studies? This is your chance to get responsibility and improve your skills in marketing from strategic planning to AdWords campaigns, from project management to marketing automation - you name it!


We are searching for a self-driven, learning-hungry marcom intern. As a marcom intern at SHIFT, you will be working closely with the Head of Marketing & Communications and SHIFT Sales and Program teams. Our small and effective team has a broad set of responsibilities. Your tasks will be defined according to your skills and preferences from the following list:


  • Planning and writing content for our social media channels, website & newsletters

  • Maintaining the website

  • Planning and implementing marketing campaigns on social media

  • Keeping track of Google Analytics and social media metrics tools

  • Creating visual materials according to predefined graphical directions and elements, and/or other graphic design assignments

  • Photography

  • Project management

  • Other marketing and communications related tasks

We expect you to:


  • dare to ask, learn and develop yourself

  • have experience in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign or equivalent, and to have licenses for the programs you use

  • have excellent written and spoken English.

  • Know-how in video editing is considered as an advantage.

We expect you to start in January 2020. Duration and weekly hours of the internship can be negotiated (3-6 months, 50-100%).


Interested? Don't leave it to luck, apply! The application time closes on Friday, 15 November 2019.




For more information or questions please contact us at juha@theshift.fi

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Skill development
Skill development

We want to take you from good to great.

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Working at
SHIFT Business Festival

SHIFT Business Festival is a platform that has brought together C-level decision-makers, business developers, and tech-heads from growth companies across the board since 2016. The highlight of the year is a two-day business festival in Turku, Finland. We encourage and support our festival attendees and partners to find their competitive advantage in new technology applications and sustainable business. Our company is based in Turku and is the most important business event in the region and a solid actor in the local business ecosystem. Behind SHIFT is a non-profit organization driven by volunteers and supported by network with firm supporters like Turku Science Park, Boost Turku, JCI, Creve, Turku Chamber of Commerce and Federation of Finnish Enterprises.

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