Highgate Advisory Ltd
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Highgate is a strategic advisory firm that helps clients navigate high-stakes issues and contested environments. Highgate is looking for two interns to help execute and deliver strategies and campaigns for clients.
This role is ideal for a motivated, enthusiastic person looking to build their career in strategic advisory, dispute resolution, and communications.
As part of Highgate’s Internship Programme, you will gain practical skills through on-the-job learning and an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of your career interests. In addition, every intern has a dedicated mentor to support and guide them. Our interns are important members of the team, have full access to the senior team, are involved in company meetings and support with business development initiatives.
Key Tasks:
- Researching and compiling concise briefing notes in the areas of politics, business, and international affairs for existing clients and new business opportunities.
- Drafting content including reports, blogs, briefings, social media posts, newsletters, etc. that support client work.
- Researching and analyzing media articles for clients, including daily media monitoring.
- Compiling stakeholder contact lists, including media, and writing pitches to journalists.
- Attending internal and client meetings, writing up summary notes.
- Support the drafting and brainstorming of communications and business strategies.
- Ad-hoc administrative tasks.
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Key Requirements:
- Completed an undergraduate degree.
- Previous professional experience (typically one to two years) gained through internships, placements, or employment in a related field.
- Excellent written communication skills, strong critical thinking, and attention to detail.
- Ability to research and synthesize information within short time frames.
- Excellent organizational skills, including managing and prioritizing multiple tasks.
- Strong work ethic, curiosity, a desire to learn, and the ability to work in teams and independently.
- A keen interest and a good understanding of politics and international affairs.
- Digital and foreign language skills are desirable, but not essential.
- Candidates must have the right to work in the UK. Employment is subject to successful reference checks.
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About Highgate
Highgate is a strategic advisory firm that helps clients navigate high-stakes issues and contested environments. We advise senior decision-makers operating where commercial, legal, political, and stakeholder considerations intersect. Our international team is drawn from the best talent in intelligence, law, government, finance, media, and the military.
Our services include dispute resolution, CEO advisory, sovereign counsel, private client, and philanthropic advisory.
All Highgate consultants are expected to be positive, collaborative, kind, empathetic, ethical, open-minded, entrepreneurial, innovative, discreet, and passionate about excellent client service. To learn more about Highgate and our work, visit our website https://www.highgate.ltd.
Diversity & Inclusion
Highgate fosters an inclusive workplace where everyone – regardless of background, identity, or lived experience – feels valued, supported, and able to thrive. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
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