🇬🇧 Internship in the United Kingdom 🎧 Business Assistant at a Music Media and Digital PR Company 📈 (Erasmus+ grant)

Do you love music, content and the buzz of digital PR, and want to run the engine room of a respected London media company? WPGM is looking for a Business Assistant to support its director and team across administration, social media, editorial and digital PR.

About WPGM

WPGM LTD is a media, publishing and digital PR services company based in London. Born out of a passion for new and emerging music and a drive to revolutionize the way new music and content is discovered and consumed, WPGM provides a platform and service via media and publishing, digital PR and publicity, radio and TV plugging, and social media marketing, to promote and raise awareness for the best new music, artists and lifestyle content. Its PR services arm functions within the digital music PR and social media marketing spaces in the UK, US and Africa, with a view to expanding into radio and TV plugging.

📈 WPGM's media arm functions online via the music review website wepluggoodmusic.com and the music and lifestyle publication conversationsabouther.net, with future expansions into TV, radio and print content. A trendsetter and taste-maker since its first iteration in 2009, WPGM has an established platform of over 200,000 monthly visits, over 25,000 Twitter followers, over 40,000 Facebook fans, over 20,000 Instagram fans and over 20,000 YouTube subscribers, and is recognized as one of the UK's most sought-after media, publishing and digital PR services companies.

The Role

As Business Assistant, you support the company and its director on a day-to-day basis, combining administrative, social media, editorial and digital PR duties.

What You'll Do

📧 Manage the company's correspondence emails, diaries and client calls, screening and directing emails, distributing correspondence and providing general administrative support, with full diary and inbox management.

📱 Manage the company's social media channels and editorial content writing, and handle the company and director's social media and other personal administrative tasks.

📣 Assist the company's sales and marketing and digital PR campaigns, and carry out social media management, editorial content writing, sales and marketing and digital PR duties as required.

🗓️ Schedule the company's diaries, arranging presentations, meetings and other events and appointments, and manage the director's and staff's daily appointments, important tasks and deadlines.

📊 Compile and prepare reports, presentations and correspondence, provide weekly and monthly reporting to the director, and capture, alert and monitor important issues where follow-up is required.

🗂️ Assist in managing multiple projects across the diverse lines of business, and build contact list databases of new and existing music websites and blogs, UK-wide radio presenters and producers of specialist radio shows and stations, and exciting new and emerging UK, European, American and African artists who could become new online PR clients.

📈 Manage databases of potential PR clients, online press, radio producers, presenters and DJs, pitch digital PR services to potential clients, monitor and report on existing digital PR campaigns, and capture screenshots of all the blog and press coverage the UK online PR campaigns have garnered, collating each page link together for each campaign.

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What They're Looking For

✍️ Excellent written English and communication skills.

🧩 Highly developed organisational and problem-solving skills.

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Who Can Apply

🎓 Students and recent graduates in Business Studies or Management Science, Communication and Information Sciences, or Humanities. This is an unpaid internship, and you may be able to fund it through an Erasmus+ traineeship grant via your university. As the UK is now outside the Erasmus+ Programme Countries, check with your university whether you can undertake an Erasmus+ traineeship there through its international mobility.