Premier Advisory Group
Junior Consultant Intern

How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
About the role
You will support PAG's team on live projects for local authorities, academy trusts, schools and private-sector clients. Most of our work involves children and families: childcare sufficiency assessments, funding bids for special educational needs and disability (SEND) provision, and reviews of provision and funding for pupils with education, health and care plans. You will be involved in real client work and see how a small consultancy runs. This is a 140 hour apprenticeship across 7 weeks - 2.5 days per week.
What you will be involved in
- Researching policy, legislation and published data, such as Department for Education statistics, council reports and Ofsted findings, and summarising your findings clearly.
- Cleaning, analysing and charting data, including survey results and childcare and school place data.
- Helping design surveys and consultation materials for parents, providers and employers, and tracking who has responded.
- Drafting sections of client reports, briefings and bid documents for consultants to review.
- Checking reports for accuracy, consistency and plain English before they go to clients.
- Researching new opportunities and public-sector tenders, and helping put together bid material.
- Taking notes in client and team meetings, and following up on actions.
- Helping with day-to-day operations such as organising files in SharePoint, keeping project trackers up to date and supporting simple finance tasks.
- Working out how to help the exceptional people we work with, and for, achieve their aims.
Reasons to use Rodeo
I’m in my final year doing Economics and I don’t know whether to apply for grad schemes now or do a masters first. What do you think?
Honest answer — it depends on where you want to end up. A lot of top grad schemes (Big 4, civil service, banking) don’t need a masters. Let’s look at the ones you’d be competitive for now, and we can decide if a masters actually adds anything.
Also worth knowing: most autumn 2026 applications are open now. Timing matters more than you think.
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
Graduate Consultant — 2026 Scheme
Why you're a good match
StrongYour economics background and your summer at a regional bank line up with what PwC looks for on the consulting scheme. Applications close in four weeks.
See breakdownIt searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Why you're a good match
You’ve got the grades and the economics background, and your bank internship is exactly the experience this scheme looks for. Apply soon — deadlines close within the month.
Experience fit
Your summer at the bank plus your econometrics coursework map directly to the day-one responsibilities on this scheme — client modelling, market briefings, and deal support.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
What we are looking for
Essential
- Curiosity, enthusiasm, a sense of wonder.
- Being both interested and interesting.
- You are a current student or recent graduate from any discipline.
- You are comfortable with speaking, numbers or words (ideally all three).
- You can manage your own time and meet deadlines while working remotely.
- You have an opinion on public services, education or social policy. Other opinions are also welcome.
- You ask questions when something is unclear. You shout if you are struggling.
- Working experience of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Google is acceptable as long as you don’t mention it.
- Ability to use your, you’re, yaw and yore correctly.
Desirable
- Experience with research methods, surveys or data analysis.
- Interest in consultancy, local government, education or SEND.
- Experience with, and an affinity for, using AI as a servant, not a master.
- Experience with wider Microsoft 365 products, including Teams, SharePoint, Power BI and Dynamics.
- Experience of using cool stuff that we don’t know about.


Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
What you will get
- Work from anywhere. PAG is fully remote, so there is no commute and no need to relocate.
- Flexible hours. Arrange your working day around your other commitments, as long as you are available for agreed team meetings.
- A chance to make mistakes. We’ll actively encourage you to try things and won’t blame you if they go wrong.
- Fair pay. London Living Wage, whatever your location.
- Real client work. The research and writing you do will go into reports and bids for councils and schools.
- Direct contact with senior staff. You will work with our Managing Director and Principal Consultant and get regular feedback on your work.
- Broad experience. You will see consultancy work from research through to bids, business development, finance and operations.
- A reference at the end of the internship, with examples of work you can talk about in future applications.
- Reasonable adjustments during recruitment and throughout the internship. Just let us know what you need.
When applying:
At PAG we are strong believers in using AI well - so please provide a covering letter written by an AI of your choosing and please share the prompt you used for it. Please also provide a CV.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Location