Communications Intern – External events in Berlin bei McKinsey & Company

You will join a global group of communications professionals within the firm’s Reach and Engagement function. These colleagues help ensure that appropriate insights reach designated audiences, building awareness and engagement with McKinsey’s distinctive knowledge on a variety of topics. They shape the way the firm connects with people, from clients to employees to alumni, strengthening institutional relationships, connections, and affiliations. Through research, data analysis, and execution on communications and relevant administrative tasks, you will contribute to the development and implementation of best-in-class global communications programs, events, and publications.

You will be able to support a variety of communications activities and tactics including supporting event presence and logistics, social media planning, operational support, and critical data tracking and analysis for our Reach and Engagement Powerhouse (covering Operations, People and Operational Performance, Real Estate).

You will leverage your communications and analytics skills and attention to detail to help compile an overview of industry events through researching the landscape of third-party industry and McKinsey owned events and conferences and qualification of such with the outcome of a holistic, global overview of top-tier events as a single source of truth for our planning going forward.

You will work with our team in identifying our key spokespeople per topic and region with the goal of providing a holistic repertoire of spokespeople. You will provide support for spokespeople in developing their content and materials and will help with the operational coordination of speaking engagements. You’ll support operational data tracking and reporting (e.g., Air Table process reports) and data collection after speaking engagements or hosted events.

This is a paid internship that will last a minimum of 6 months.

• High school diploma – voluntary internship
• Advanced analytics skills and use of tools (e.g., Microsoft Excel)
• Ability to work collaboratively in a global team environment
• Ability to communicate effectively and effectively, both verbally and in writing, in English as well as the local office language