WANTED: The World’s Coolest Intern (to join the hottest mobile banking team)

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WANTED: The World’s Coolest Intern (to join the hottest mobile banking team)

We’re on the lookout for the ‘World’s Coolest Intern’ to join the Breeze mobile banking team at Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore. Quick facts:

• A 6-months internship programme with total remuneration of SGD30,000
• Perks includes training on social media and online engagement from partners GOODSTUPH, Edelman, Qais Consulting, JamiQ,Google, Nuffnang and Visible Banking
• To help amplify your application reach SCB and Google supporting first 100 applicants with SGD100 with Google Adwords credit, for more details click here
• You can be one of the 20 lucky World’s Coolest Intern contestants to join Nuffnang’s blog grooming techniques workshop in 2011
• You don’t need to be in Singapore to apply, for more details clickhere
• Closing date: 15 October 2010 31 October 2010
• Internship start date: On a mutually agreed date between the winner and Standard Chartered Bank
• Jump to how to submit, click here

The World’s Coolest Intern’ will work with the Breeze team, based in Singapore for six months to help run our social media platforms, including the Breeze blog and Twitter feed, as well as play a key role in the development of the Breeze social media strategy.  Check out the full job description at the end of this post, for details.

The winner will be on a contract for six months and take home a prize money of S$5000 per month, or S$30,000 over 6 months. Moreover, the winner will receive training on social media and online engagement from some of the best in the business, including Qais Consulting – on Strategic Social Media Activation; Edelman – on PR; JamiQ – on Social Media Analytics, Christophe Langlois fromVisible Banking – on Social Media specific to Finance/Banking and Pat Law (Goodstuph) – on social influence marketing.

We’re after someone who’s a great communicator, someone who gets what social and digital media is all about and knows how to build and engage with online communities. So if the last thing you do before you go to bed at night is check your Facebook page and the first thing you do in the morning is log into TweetDeck, then you may be the sort of person we’re looking for.

Recruitment for the role of the ‘World’s Coolest Intern’ will be conducted entirely online, so if you’d like to apply you’ll need to follow the process outlined below:

• Follow @StanChartBreeze on Twitter
• Create a blog post, video, podcast (it’s up to you really) explaining what makes you uniquely qualified to become the ‘World’s Coolest Intern’, make sure to mention breeze blog link so that we can track it (http://breeze.standardchartered.com/blog)
• Direct Message us the URL of your post, so we can take a look and see what you’re all about

Applications for the ‘World’s Coolest Intern’ role close on 15 October 31 October, 2010, so you’ll need to act quickly. We want someone who is proactive and enthusiastic, so we reckon the challenging deadline will not be an obstacle for the right contestant.

Once applications close we’ll use the following process to select the ‘World’s Coolest Intern’:

• 2 Nov 2010 – Top 20 contestants will be shortlisted to proceed to the second stage based on their digital footprint. Standard Chartered Bank will use JamiQ social media monitoring tool to analyse the digital footprint.
• 5 Nov 2010 – Top 10 contestants will be shortlisted by Standard Chartered Bank after conducting a qualitative analysis of the online content published by the top 20 candidates, including their blogs, Twitter page to determine the ability to communicate and engage with the digital communities.
• 8 – 12 Nov 2010 – Top 10 contestants be interviewed via SCB HireVue’s Video Job Interviewing Platform and the “World’s Coolest Intern” will be selected.
• The ‘World’s Coolest Intern’ and 2 runner-ups will be publicly announced on 20 Nov, 2010.
• The “World’s Coolest Intern” will commence work in the Breeze team on a mutually agreed date between the winner and Standard Chartered Bank.

Click here for more details on how to submit your application. Good luck and we look forward to hearing from you.

Job Description:

The winner for the ‘World’s Coolest Intern’ role will be required to:

• Provide creative ideas to promote Breeze using various social media channels, and to conduct brain storming sessions with peers to source campaign ideas
• Support the Breeze marketing manager in managing projects and executing campaigns/initiatives
• Work with internal stakeholders and external partners to manage all social media assets and to organize outreach events, including:
  • Update and maintain the Breeze blog, including posting relevant articles and responding to posts/comments
  • Update and maintain the Twitter account
  • Update and maintain the Youtube account
  • Update and maintain the Flickr account
  • Organize/launch social media marketing/outreach activities such as bloggers’ meet, tweet-ups, etc.

Skills Requirement:

The ideal contestant would be a current Marketing/IT student or recent graduate looking for practical training and experience in the social media field. He/she needs to be:

• A social connector and strong communicator  in English
• Passionate about technology
• Experienced in various social media channels

Terms and conditions:

The offer of employment is subject to a formal contract with the winner and Standard Chartered Bank, satisfactory clearance of the banks pre-employment process and subject to obtaining legal rights to work in Singapore.  In the event that the winner fails to obtain legal rights to work in Singapore, the offer will be made to the first runner-up.

Employees of Standard Chartered Bank, their advertising and promotion agencies and their immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of each are not eligible.

Closing Dates:

The closing date for applications is 15 October 31 October, 2010. Please note all closing dates are given in Singapore time (GMT + 8 hours). We aim to respond to successful applicants within two weeks and will keep a record or your application in our database so that we can contact you if when suitable vacancies arise in future.

Diversity & Inclusion:

Standard Chartered is committed to diversity and inclusion. We believe that a work environment which embraces diversity will enable us to get the best out of the broadest spectrum of people to sustain strong business performance and competitive advantage. By building an inclusive culture, each employee can develop a sense of belonging, and have the opportunity to maximise their personal potential.

Other terms and conditions

• By submitting the contest entries, each contestant (a) specifically authorizes Standard Chartered Bank to use and/or license third parties to use such entry in whole or in part, throughout the universe, in perpetuity in or on any and all media, now known or hereafter devised, and alone or together or as part of otherwise unlawful information, infringe or violate any copyright or other right, or contain any matter other information, content and/or material of any kind or nature; (b) represents and warrants that all elements contained in the contest entry (i) is original to the participant or fully cleared for use as contemplated herein, (ii) does and will not, in any way, violate or breach any of the terms of any other agreement the participant may be a party to, (iii) does not contain libellous, tortuous, or the publication or sale of which will violate any federal or state statute or regulation, (iv) is not obscene or in any other manner unlawful, and (v) shall not require Standard Chartered Bank to pay or incur any sums to any person or entity as a result of Standard Chartered Bank’s use or exploitation of the same.
• The winner may be required to participate in public relations events tied to the contest to generate press coverage of the contest and the accessories range. This may include, but not be limited to, quotes given for inclusion in press releases and press conferences, interviews, etc.
• Standard Chartered Bank reserves the right to disqualify all entries that do not meet the rules and regulations of the Contest. These include entries submitted with invalid or incorrect information.
• Standard Chartered Bank cannot accept any responsibility for any damage, loss, injury or disappointment suffered by any entrant entering the Contest or as a result of entering the Contest or accepting any prize. Standard Chartered Bank is not responsible for any safe custody, return, non-delivery or missing of entries, late, misdirected, problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software failure of any email or entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet, telephone lines or at any web site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to contestant’s or any other person’s computer or mobile telephone related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in the Contest.
• By entering the Contest or accepting the internship, contestants agree that no claim relating to such losses or injuries (including special, indirect and consequential losses) shall be brought against Standard Chartered Bank, its parent companies, affiliates, directors, officers, employees or agents from any and all losses, damages, rights, claims and actions of any kind resulting from the Contest and acceptance of any prize, including without limitation, personal injuries, death and property damage.

Use of Personal Information

• By entering the contest, You agree:
  • to the use of your name and/or likeness, without compensation, for Standard Chartered Bank promotional and marketing purposes; and
  • to the use of the information submitted on the contest entry form, without compensation, for Standard Chartered Bank promotional and marketing purposes; and
  • to the use of your answers to the questions and/or tie breaker for Standard Chartered Bank promotional and marketing purposes.
• Each individual contestant participating to this competition contest acknowledges that:
  • in respect of any Personal Information disclosed by her/him to Standard Chartered Bank or obtained by Standard Chartered Bank from her/him pursuant to this contest application:
  • she/he is authorised to disclose such Personal Information; such disclosure complies with any Privacy Legislation from any country, within the geographical scope of this competition, and the use of such Personal Information by Standard Chartered Bank as contemplated by this application (including, without limitation, the disclosure of such Personal Information to Standard Chartered Bank’s external agencies or third parties)
• Standard Chartered Bank and its affiliated companies respect the privacy of every individual who visits our Web site or responds to our advertisements and contest. Please refer to our Privacy Statement for details.

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