Category: St Andrews University

Internship Vacancies

Yvonne McAulay

St Andrews Business Club is looking to appoint two new Marketing Communications Interns.

 

This is a great opportunity to work for a local, long-established networking club where you will gain excellent business experience and communication skills​.
While this is not a paid position, any out-of-pocket expenses incurred on Club duties will be reimbursed and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to enjoy the following benefits:

BENEFITS

  • Training and mentoring from the business club committee members.
  • Practical experience in real-life marketing communications to add to your CV.
  • LinkedIn Recommendations from Committee members – https://standrewsbusinessclub.co.uk/about-us/committee/​ – if overall job performance has met an agreed standard.
  • Introductions to useful career contacts
  • Opportunity to network and make useful career and personal connections at Club events, free of charge.
  • Enjoy the full benefits of being a member of the St Andrews Business Club, such as member discounts at Luvians.
  • Attend relevant educational talks by the business community.
  • Experience working on a professional committee and the duties it entails, as well as gaining knowledge of issues such as advertising/GDPR/club finances.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • The interns will assist the business club committee in advertising and running events.
  • Attend the events, take photos, and produce post-event comms.
  • Attend Committee meetings with the main business club committee – approximately once every 2 months in the evening 5.30-7 pm.

SOCIAL MEDIA

  • Schedule social media Business page posts to promote each event using Hootsuite.
  • Promote member businesses by creating social posts – Opportunity for interns to devise creative, original content that drives more engagement.
  • Create content for post event comms.
  • Take photographs of the event (with a club camera).

WEBSITE

  • Edit content on Club’s WordPress site – Training will be provided.

STUDENT CLUB

  • Evaluate the need for a student club and act on results which may include re-establishing the student club post-Covid.

DESIRED MARKETING TASKS

  • Eventbrite – event creation & management – Training and content will be provided.
  • Attend Club events – to assist with running each event – roughly one per month. See the schedule at https://standrewsbusinessclub.co.uk/events-st-andrews-business-club/

REQUIREMENTS

  • Interest in marketing communications
  • Facebook – you must have your own account – Admin permissions for the Club page will be granted.
  • Twitter – some prior experience would be useful, but training will be provided
  • LinkedIn – you must have a profile on this platform
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Proficient in a wide variety of IT applications
  • Must be professional and flexible in the way tasks are completed
  • Good time management skills
  • Desire to learn and be guided by experienced professionals

HOURS REQUIRED

Approximately 2 hours per week.

START DATE & LENGTH OF INTERNSHIP

The start date and length of the internship will be agreed with the successful candidates.

SUPERVISION

The interns will be supervised and trained directly by the Committee member with primary responsibility for Club communications, but also by other members of the Committee.

HOW TO APPLY

The application should be made by sending your CV via email to standrewsbusinessclubinterns@gmail.com with:

  • Subject Line “Marketing Communications Intern Application”
  • In the body of the email, you should describe why you are applying and why you feel you would be suitable for the role.

CLOSING DATE: 21st October 2022


A shortlist of candidates will be selected for an interview in St Andrews or online.
QUERIES:​ Any queries about this role should be emailed to ​standrewsbusinessclubinterns@gmail.com

University of St Andrews Enterprise Week Keynote 2019

Yvonne McAulay

At the University of St Andrews Enterprise Week 2019 – Keynote Event, Dr Tanya Ewing, Owner of Glaze & Save, Daniel Malikzade-Afshar, Founder of Yes!Cab, Graeme Carling of Carling Property Group, PRS Group, United Capital, Infinitas Investments & CEO, McGill, Juno Lee, Co-Founder of CombiniCo & Sagar Kuma Sharma, Founder of the Angel Group, shared their entrepreneurial journeys, lessons learned and advice for anyone considering their own venture.

Dr Tanya Ewing, Entrepreneur & Owner of Glaze and Save Ltd, shares her story.

The evening began with a candid account from Dr Tanya, who shared the troubles she faced in her early life and how she overcame these challenges to develop her highly successful career with Ewgeco, the first smart real-time utility meter in the UK, and her new business Glaze & Save – insulating products for doors and windows, mainly focused on improving energy efficiency in listed and conservation properties.

Graeme Carling, Founder & CEO – Carling Property Group, PRS Group, United Capital, Infinitas Investments and Chief Executive of McGill, tells his entrepreneurial story.

Graeme Carling was just as candid about his business journey – admitted to making mistakes in early businesses before going on to build his large and successful portfolio of businesses. A key message was the need to adapt to changing markets – a very important lesson in today’s economic and political climate.

Juno Lee, Co-Founder, CombiniCo, shares his journey.

Journey

Juno Lee gave a very interesting and enlightening description of his journey to creating the iconic CombiniCo food brand and his future plans for the business. The audience enjoyed hearing his stories and challenges he faced.

Daniel Malikzade-Afshar, Founder., YesCab, gave a very candid talk!

Daniel Malikzade-Afshar gave a comic yet educational talk in a laidback style with insights into the challenges and surprises he came across when establishing the Yes!Cab taxi app. It was very interesting learning about his unique business model and his plans to grow the brand while diversifying against his major competitor, Uber.

4th Year Management student Sagar Kumar Sharma talked about his experiences.

The evening concluded with Sagar Kumar Sharma, a student entrepreneur with a colourful career already including investments, property and music. Sagar took a different approach to the others – taking of the importance of pursuing a career you enjoy, which develops you as a person and philanthropy.

Thanks to them, the Enterprise Week Committee and everyone who attended for making this such a great event at the Byre Theatre.

Student Club

Stanley Parker, one of the club’s marketing communications interns, took the opportunity of this event to announce the launch of the new student business club – St Andrews Business Club Students!

For more photos, go to the Album  on our Facebook page.

NEXT EVENT: The Club’s next event is October 23: Structured Networking.

Entrepreneurs to share inspiring success stories at Uni event

Yvonne McAulay

Award-winning entrepreneurs will share their inspiring success stories with students and business people at the annual University of St Andrews Enterprise Week Keynote event on October 7.

 

The free event, open to all, to be held at The Byre Theatre from 5.30pm, will hear Dr Tanya Ewing, Graeme Carling, Daniel Malikzade-Afshar and Juno Lee speak about their experiences, approach and success. It will also begin with 90 minutes of networking.

 

Tanya Ewing is the multiple award-winning tech entrepreneur, inventor, consultant and mentor who invented the Ewgeco smart real-time utility meter so people could more easily see, understand, and control their costs. She continues to champion energy efficiency with her latest venture at Glaze & Save, which focuses on insulating doors and windows in the listed and historic property sector.

 

Graeme Carling is the founder and CEO of Carling Property Group, one of the largest private residential landlords in Scotland, and Infinitas Investment as well as Chief Executive of McGill, which he brought back from the brink after buying it out of administration, creating 50 jobs within five months.

 

Current 3rd Year St Andrews Physics student Daniel Malikzade-Afshar is the founder of local taxi booking platform Yes!Cab, which he created to allow long-established local firms to compete with the giant ride-sharing apps.

 

Juno Lee, is the co-founder of Combini Co a St Andrews-based fast-casual food and beverage company which combines authentic Korean and Japanese flavours with local Scottish produce.

 

St Andrews Business Club has partnered with the Enterprise Week student committee for the third year to help organise the event as part of its commitment to nurturing entrepreneurship.

Networking Opportunities

The event will begin at 5.30pm with networking with students and university staff over drinks, before the presentations begin at 7pm. After each of the presenters has spoken, the audience will get a chance to ask them questions.

 

Speaking about the event, St Andrews Business Club President, Caroline Rochford, said: “We’re delighted to have been asked to contribute to this event for a third year to help inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs and business people. The Club welcomes them to any of our own events and we look forward to hearing stories which will doubtless inspire our members too.”

 

Bonnie Hacking, Enterprise & Employability Adviser at the University of St Andrews, says: “We’d like to thank St Andrews Business Club for its continued contribution to this event to promote entrepreneurship in our students and in the local community.”

 

Free tickets for business people should be booked via Eventbrite – for the link go to the Business Club website at www.standrewsbusinessclub.co.uk or the St Andrews Enterprise Week Facebook page, where you can read full details of this event and the rest of the Enterprise week. Students should book via The Byre website.