Agency :
Havas Media NetherlandsJob Description :
.About the Global Awards Team
The Global Awards Team sits at the heart of our network's strategic hub. Our mission is to identify, nurture, and celebrate the most impactful work produced across our global offices. We ensure that our network's best ideas and campaigns are spotlighted and successfully submitted to prestigious regional and global industry competitions, such as Cannes Lions and the Festival of Media. To be associated to interns.
Role Overview
We are seeking an energetic, highly structured, and communication-focused Global Awards Intern to join our team in Amsterdam. In this role, you will play a crucial part in organizing the network's global award footprint, ensuring seamless collaboration across international offices, and championing our wins, both internally and externally.
Key Responsibilities
1. Global Awards Tracking & Platform Administration
Process Ownership:
- Take charge of the awards tracking process, which serves as our central system for monitoring Havas Media Network’s award entries and results.
Platform Management:
- Manage our dedicated internal platform, ensuring database accuracy and integrity.
- Work with IT to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues with the tracking tool, and manage requests for user access and the addition of new award names.
Network Liaison & Follow-ups:
- Communicate regularly with local awards tracking contacts to ensure information is provided on time.
- Proactively follow up with local teams when information or results are delayed.
2. Award Success Communication
Win Notifications:
- Actively monitor results and communicate award wins to winning teams to celebrate their success.
External Promotion Support:
- Share results with the Global Communications team for website and social media promotion.
3. Submission & Entry Support
Entry Writing:
- Support the team in writing and drafting actual awards submissions.
Platform Uploads:
- Assist with the practical side of uploading finalized submissions, case study videos, and entry assets to various festival platforms.
Who You Are (Requirements)
- Education: Currently studying or recently graduated with a degree in Communications, Marketing, Media Studies, or a related field.
- Location & Presence: Based in or around Amsterdam, with the right to work/intern in the Netherlands. Must be available to work in the Amsterdam office at least 2 days a week.
- Language Skills: Fluent in English (written and spoken).
- Technical Skills: High proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
- Soft Skills & Passions: Highly organized, detail-oriented, and a genuine love for writing, storytelling, and communications.
- Preferred Plusses: Knowledge of design platforms (such as Canva and Adobe Express), additional languages, and previous internship experience is a plus.
What We Offer
- An international role and the opportunity to work with teams from all over the world and professionals across multiple disciplines.
- Deep exposure to the world’s best media, creative, and strategic campaigns.
- A front-row seat to the processes behind the industry’s most prestigious festivals (Cannes Lions, Festival of Media, Effies).
- A warm onboarding experience and active mentorship to help you grow.
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Contract Type :
InternHere at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.
Skills Required
- Currently studying or recently graduated in Communications, Marketing, Media Studies, or a related field
- Based in or around Amsterdam
- Right to work or intern in the Netherlands
- Available to work in the Amsterdam office at least two days per week
- Fluent written and spoken English
- High proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Highly organized and detail-oriented
- Strong interest in writing, storytelling, and communications
- Knowledge of Canva or Adobe Express
- Additional language skills
- Previous internship experience
What We Do
Fearless. Fast. Smart. Focused. We are on a relentless quest to be Chicago's most creative company by reinvigorating iconic American brands through cultural relevance. We are passionate makers, digital disruptors, artists who don't color inside the lines. We work smarter. Push harder. Break things. Make things. And we're always looking forward.
Why Work With Us
Our agency gets out of bed in the morning to undertake what we call 'meaningful disruption' in an industry that is in need of serious transformation. We are not looking for the same, boring solutions that are chock-full of brand and marketing rhetoric but seek people that want to change the advertising game.








