Role Summary
As a Communications Intern, you will play a key role in supporting your team across various communication and PR tasks. This internship is designed to provide you with hands-on experience in a fast-paced, professional environment, allowing you to develop your skills and gain exposure to multiple workstreams. You will work closely with team members and management to contribute to meaningful projects while learning the fundamentals of strategic communications, advisory, media, and public relations.
Responsibilities
- Support the team with original research, analysis, and the delivery of strategic advisory work.
- Assist in drafting content, including press releases, social media posts, client communications, and other written materials.
- Support with preparing client reports, media coverage reports, and weekly and monthly updates for internal and client use.
- Complete administrative tasks, including email correspondence, maintaining client reports, and preparing PowerPoint presentations.
- Collaborate with team members on communication initiatives, brainstorming sessions, and campaign planning.
- Participate in client meetings, both in person and online, including attending client offices in Riyadh as required.
- Rotate across key workstreams, including content and editorial, media engagement, digital, PMO, and strategic advisory, to gain broad exposure to the communications field.
- Develop writing, research, presentation, organization, and task-management skills through hands-on assignments and feedback.
- Support ad-hoc assignments and reports as requested by Director, Direct Manager, or direct supervisor.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business management, marketing, public relations, international relations, mass communication, or an equivalent field.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Proficiency in Arabic and English, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent writing, research, analytical, and presentation skills.
- Ability to multitask, manage deadlines, and work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong organization and time-management skills, with excellent attention to detail.
- Proactive, service-oriented, creative, flexible, resilient, and solution-focused mindset.
- Strong initiative, teamwork, and information-seeking skills.
Careers at APCO
Through our recruitment, hiring and retention efforts, APCO is committed to building teams to bring the best possible expertise and robust perspectives to our clients. We embrace differences in experience, viewpoint and ideas, starting with our values and extending to our behaviors, policies and practices. We aim to create a positive work experience and welcoming environment where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.
About Us
About APCO
APCO is a global advisory and advocacy firm helping leading corporations, foundations and governments navigate a complex world and create lasting impact.
Founded in 1984, with one woman’s vision and bold action, APCO has grown into an independent, majority women-owned firm of more than 1,200 employees with work spanning 80 markets around the world.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., APCO is comprised of strategic advisers, consultants and creators, working together across borders and functions, to provide services and expertise on financial, competitive, political and societal issues.
APCO is a trusted partner to bold purpose-led leaders, lawmakers, government officials, NGOs, the media and other stakeholders in the health, energy, technology, transportation & infrastructure and food & consumer products sectors. For 40 years, the firm has provided public affairs, crisis & reputation, impact, corporate reputation and global solutions services.
APCO is renowned for its ability to champion clients’ interests and permission to operate, build their reputation and strengthen their standing. APCO’s integrated approach and team of tenacious and empathic talent create connections and winning strategies that accelerate progress and deepen impact.
By bringing diverse people and ideas together, and working beyond traditional boundaries, APCO builds the un/common ground upon which progress is made.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business management, marketing, public relations, international relations, mass communication, or an equivalent field
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Proficiency in Arabic and English
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent writing, research, analytical, and presentation skills
- Ability to multitask, manage deadlines, and work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Strong organization and time-management skills with excellent attention to detail
- Proactive, service-oriented, creative, flexible, resilient, and solution-focused mindset
- Strong initiative, teamwork, and information-seeking skills
What We Do
APCO is a global advisory and advocacy firm helping organizations build the un/common ground upon which progress is made.
