Summits Trainee

**Company: POLITICO**

**POLITICO Live is seeking a Summits Trainee to join its Brussels-based Events team starting in July-August for a period of 6 months.**

In this role, you will contribute to the overall production of POLITICO summits, and you will learn how to recruit and manage top-level speakers, draft content for our marketing communications, streamline regular communication with events sponsors and coordinate the successful web and live delivery of the event. Summits are POLITICO’s flagship events and require long-term project management.

As Summits involve cross-platform elements (print and online) and the input of many different constituents, the Summits Trainee interacts with colleagues from a wide range of departments across the company, including Editorial, Sales, Marketing and Logistics.

POLITICO Live is the live extension of our journalism, providing a platform for coverage and analysis of the ideas and people driving politics and policy. Our mission is to amplify the impact of our journalism and illuminate, through our diverse formats, the most important political and policy issues facing Europe.

**What You’ll Do**

**Program development**:

- Train with the Live Editor and Program Manager to support the development of summit programs that align with newsroom and market needs
- Monitor competitor landscape and industry trends to help position POLITICO summits on the market

**Speakers’ recruitment and management**:

- Train with the Live Editor and Program Manager to recruit and manage speakers
- Set up pre-summit briefing calls with speakers as well as supporting documentation
- Manage some speaker liaison throughout the project development and onsite at the summit
- Train to create and update summit microsites and online agenda
- Train to work with Asana to track and support summit management throughout the production process

**Clients' relationship assistance**:

- Assist with the preparation of weekly calls, and implementation of client benefits (logo visibility, guest registration, briefing documents, etc.)
- Assist with the on-site coordination of sponsor exhibitions, pre-summit dinner, guest registration etc.

**Logistics**:

- Assist with the coordination of pre-summit logistics preparation including printed and digital materials, badge and audience management, sponsor and speaker VIP experience and management
- Prepare all the necessary materials to deliver a smooth summit from pre to post-summit

**Marketing support**:
**About POLITICO**

POLITICO is a global news and information company at the intersection of politics and policy. It is the essential online, mobile and print destination for the most influential people in the world. With publications based in Washington, D.C., New York, London, and Brussels, POLITICO boasts an enormous roster of the most talented reporters and editors in the world.

**Equal Opportunity**

It is POLITICO's policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified individuals without regard to race, colour, religion, national origin, gender, age or any other characteristic protected by local laws and regulations.

**Application Instructions & Further Details**

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send a **CV and motivation letter in English** outlining why you’re right for this role.

Note: This is a paid traineeship and does not require applicants to be current students.
- Location: Brussels_
- Employment level: Full-time_
- Type of role: Trainee_

Updated: April 2, 2024
Job ID:
LI-Hybrid