Event communication Intern

  • Intern

Company Description

BlaBlaCar: a high growth, global company

A successful and innovative global start-up, backed by world-class venture capital firms, Accel Partners and Index Ventures, our HQ are based in Paris and we have international teams in Madrid, Milan, Warsaw, Hamburg, Moscow, Budapest, London, Istanbul and New Delhi. 

We are creating an entirely new, people powered, transport network. With dedicated customer service, state of the art web and mobile platforms, and a highly engaged community of users, BlaBlaCar is making road travel fun, money-saving and more efficient. 

Read more about us here: http://www.blablacar.com/blog/blablacar-press

Being part of the BlaBlaCar team means:

  • you will have a positive social impact on the world, as we continue to make road travel smarter and more sustainable,
  • you will work in a fast-paced environment with a highly agile team of dynamic, hyper-motivated and talented individuals,
  • you will join a global company, with a real international culture and vision; multi-lingual and highly mobile :)
  • you will be part of a supportive team that shares knowledge and empowers every single member to reach their full potential, and continue learning,
  • you will enter a high-growth structure which means that you will be constantly challenged and that your responsibilities will grow fast and change regularly.

Job Description

As an Event communication Intern, you will be joining the great Local Team « France & Benelux », and especially the French Communications Team, in Paris. You’ll be joining a very skilled and motivated team of people, whose goal is to foster awareness, love & engagement. 

Our mission is to become the low-cost transportation market leader in France by creating the ridesharing reflex in people’s mind, positioning BlaBlaCar as the most fun and serious service and having our members become evangelists of BlaBlaCar on social networks and in real life. As such, the role requires a sharp, creative, dynamic and rigorous mind.

Missions will include:

• 100% Event Communication

Active involvement in all our events:

- Participation in the logistics

- Presence and implication on the ground during the events (music festivals, highway stations operations, fairs…)

- Creation of reports with qualitative and quantitative results after the events

Active involvement during the BlaBlaTour (it’s a Summer Tour that passes by 15 big French cities to meet our community during evenings called BlaBlaTimes):

- Co-management of the BlaBlaTour project in France: logistics, planning, negociations, management of the guest lists, presence on the ground, etc.

Active involvement alongside the Associate Communications Manager, in the BlaBlaDay project (it’s a one-day event organized in Paris, dedicated to the sensibilization about ridesharing and to the highlighting of the talents in our community):

- Participation in the logistics

- Presence and implication on the ground during the BlaBlaDay

Involvement in new kind of events/prototypes alongside the Communications Manager:

- Participation in meetings (brainstorming, business meetings…)

- Benchmark of new types of events

- Implication in the management of the projects


Qualifications

  • Student in a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and Event

  • High sense of organisation and method, big energy, efficiency, creativity, proactivity and ingenuity in any circumstance.

  • Feeling yourself at ease with other people and on the phone is requested for this job because you will be a lot in contact with our community.

  • Being already an active user of BlaBlaCar would be a plus.

  • Being fluent in French & English is required.

  • Having the driving licence is mandatory for this internship

  • Being available all the 3 months, evenings and weekends included, is mandatory for this internship because you will be on plenty of music festivals, BlaBlaTimes and so on.

  • Perfect spelling and writing

  • Fun and Serious 

Additional Information

Start: June 2015

Place: in our HQ in Paris (metro Blanche or Trinité d'Estienne d'Orves)

Contract: 3 months internship 

Salary: 1000€ gross income/month 

If you are interested: click on the green button ;)

Then:

1/ Upload your CV

2/ Create an original presentation (no cover letter please) to express your motivation. 

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