JOB DESCRIPTION

View Vacancy – British Embassy Santiago Internship

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Job Category

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Policy & Political roles)

Job Subcategory

Political

Job Description (Roles and Responsibilities)

The British Embassy Santiago is pleased to offer an internship running from October 2025 to end of March 2026. The internship’s successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with the embassy’s Political and Communications team and collaborate with other units across the embassy.

The jobholder will gain experience of a broad range of embassy functions. For the Political and Communications team, the inter will support the team leading the UK’s international engagement and foreign policy dialogue with Chile, including our bilateral engagement with Chile’s government, National Congress, presidential and congressional advisers, and representatives from international organisations, the diplomatic corps, civil society and think tanks.

This is an excellent opportunity to learn about foreign policy and international relations, international trade policy, and how the UK and Chile work together to solve global problems. Our interns play an important role in supporting our work and have an opportunity to make a real impact through the projects they are work on.

Roles and responsibilities:

The job holder will:

• Support implementation of the British Embassy’s political and diplomatic engagement, including maintaining and updating our political stakeholder”s database; arranging, attending and taking minutes in external meetings; attending and contributing to embassy working groups; diary management; update and maintain section resources and briefings.
• Assist with research: researching information and contacts (UK and Chilean) in priority areas, including political and legislative developments.
• Support project and event management logistics, helping deliver exciting and impactful events (King’s Birthday Party, programmes for visiting UK officials and ministers, and Political Team travel within Chile and Latin America) in pursuit of section, embassy and UK strategic priorities, including contact with suppliers and venues, and updating and maintaining briefing materials and guest lists.
• Support the Communications Team work, including contributing to the production of social media content and delivery of the embassy’s communications strategy.
• Assist with information management and record keeping on procurement, finance and Human Resources.
• Assist in the updating of current databases and actively contribute to the strengthening of relationships with stakeholders and suppliers. Researching for new suppliers and products to improve operations.

Essential qualifications, skills and experience

• The intern must be enrolled in a university/college programme that will allow them to participate in an internship / “práctica profesional”.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to deal with multiple tasks and priorities.
• Problem-solving, attention to detail and efficient administrative skills.

Applicants must have the legal status to live and work in Chile

Language: English and Spanish

Level of language required: Fluent Spanish. Ideally business level in both written and spoken English.

Desirable qualifications, skills and experience

We are looking for proactive individuals who have political knowledge and/or experience, understand Chile’s political environment and context, and have strong organisational, collaboration, problem-solving, communication and administrative skills to manage simultaneous ongoing tasks.

Required behaviours

Changing and Improving, Delivering at Pace, Working Together

Application deadline

14 October 2025

Grade

Internship

Type of Position

Fixed term, with possibility of renewal

Working hours per week

24

Region

Latin America and Spanish speaking Caribbean

Country/Territory

Chile

Location (City)

Santiago

Type of Post

British Embassy

Number of vacancies

1

Salary Currency

CLP

Salary

$333.333

Type of Salary

monthly

Start Date

24 November 2025

Other benefits and conditions of employment

Employees who are not liable to pay local income tax on their Mission salary, eg some non-local national staff and some spouses or partners of UK diplomatic staff, will have their salaries abated by an equivalent amount.

Appointable candidates will be required to provide proof of enrolment at their current university.

Additional information

Closing date of receiving applications is before 23:55 (Local Time) on 14 October 2025.

Appointable candidates who were unsuccessful may be placed on a ‘reserve list’. If during the reserve period of 12 months the same or a largely similar role becomes available, that role may be offered to the second or subsequent candidate.

All applicants must fully complete the online application form, including the sections for employment and educational details, experience, and behaviour-based questions. Only those applications that contain all required information will be considered. To ensure the sift process remains anonymous, please do not include any personally identifiable information in your application form.

Please be aware that you will only be able to apply to vacancies for Country Based Staff roles with the British Government through this official tal.net site (operated by Oleeo). Jobs may be advertised on third party websites, however our adverts will always link back to the official tal.net site. If you complete and send an application through any other site, we will not receive it.

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements