Intern, Proposals

The Company

Christie’s, the world’s largest Art Business, is an incredibly exciting & enriching place to start or continue your career. Whether you work within one of our Specialist Art Departments, or in one of our more Operational teams, we are all working together with one common goal in mind: to continue the success of this 250 year old company, steeped in history, bringing fresh ideas whilst not forgetting our shared values; Integrity, Excellence, Innovation, Responsibility & Relationships. Colleagues across all departments are truly passionate about what they do and it is inspiring to work with industry leaders across our business. 
 

Why This Role Matters

Christie’s is looking for an enthusiastic intern to join our dynamic Proposals team in London.

Proposals is a small but high-performing team that produces bespoke proposals to convince clients to sell their works of art with Christie’s. You will play a pivotal role within the team, supporting the department’s three writers and two graphic designers to produce persuasive, beautifully designed, high-quality proposal documents/presentations – to tight deadlines – in order to win crucial business for Christie’s.

The successful candidate will be required to work in the office at Christie’s King Street five days a week.

How You'll Make an Impact

• As necessary, assisting with producing proposal documents for Christie’s departments, such as collating images, writing image captions and helping on proposals content

• Assist in formatting and filing all view/event/auction shots commissioned from external photographer, and ensure that the department image database and photography tracker are constantly updated

• Scanning images for the team as needed, and using Adobe Photoshop to edit and format images when necessary

• Requesting/obtaining images from our in-house systems; ensuring they arrive quickly and are formatted as necessary on arrival

• Keeping departmental information folders up to date, such as those containing press quotations, staff biographies, staff signatures and specialist team pages

• Maintaining the Proposals Department Library, including combing other libraries across the organisation to ensure comprehensive and up-to-date images and information are easily available

• Assisting the team in updating the Filemaker database, tagging each record after project completion to enable detailed searches

• Being the point of contact for other Christie’s departments and Christie’s regional Proposal teams in Paris, New York and Hong Kong; supplying pdfs, images or other info as necessary

• Using the Proposals Archive server to answer any queries about historic proposals

• Organising the monthly writers’ meeting, including preparing the agenda and circulating minutes

• General housekeeping of the departmental printer/meeting room, including coordinating printer maintenance, maintenance of proposals archive and ordering office supplies.

• Printing and binding documents in-house

• Photocopying

• Post and courier duties

• Other administrative duties and general research to assist the writing team

What you’ll bring to the team

• Native-level fluency in English (written and spoken)

• Minimum of BA degree or equivalent

• Passion for and interest in art

• First-class writing skills, including excellent grammar

• A strong sense of personal accountability

• Able to work well as part of a team

• Highly organised, with strong time management skills

• Exceptional attention to detail

• Quick to learn and implement

• Able to work well under pressure

• A strong sense of initiative

• Confident, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to prioritise and manage a diverse workload

• The energy and commitment to work the hours necessary to meet tight deadlines

• A “can-do”, positive attitude

• Computer literate, preferably familiar with Mac and Adobe Creative Suite, although training can be given

What’s great about working for us

• 25 days annual leave + 1 day Birthday leave  

• Christie’s Christmas office closure (guaranteed between 25th Dec – 1st Jan) – in addition to annual leave: almost two weeks to fully switch off and spend time with friends and family

• Additional 1 week’s annual leave within the year of a 5-year anniversary i.e. 5th, 10th, 15th and so on

• Volunteering day: Take an additional day of annual leave to volunteer for a charitable organisation that’s important to you

• Donation matching of up to £500 per annum to help you support the organisations you care about

• Flexible Fitness Fund - £400 per year expense allowance for health and wellness related activity (taxable)

• Access to world-renowned art: with regular exhibitions in our galleries to wander around and exclusive guided tours hosted by specialist colleagues

• Discretionary Bonus (dependent on the business and employee performance payable in March each year)      

• Generous retirement plan: We will double match your pension contribution up to 5% of your basic salary (Max 10% contribution from Christie’s)

• Private Health Insurance – no employee contribution needed, subsidised for other family members

• Dental Insurance – (may be extended at personal cost)

• Generous Income Protection Insurance in the event of accident, sickness or injury after 12 months

• Competitive Life Insurance policy from first day 

• Employee Assistance Programme – access to personal advice and support services including counselling

• Eyecare vouchers (once a year)

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Christie’s Extras – discounts on over 800 retailers, holiday packages, dinners and weekly shops

• Seniorcare by Lottie, a comprehensive eldercare solution

• Robust family first policy:

Ø  16 weeks full pay on Maternity Leave  

Ø  Eligible to return to work for 80% of your agreed normal weekly working pattern while being paid as though you were working 100%, post a minimum of 16 weeks of leave

Ø  Dependent back-up care: 10 sessions/ days of childcare or eldercare per year

Ø  Christies Family Network: Our community of parents who meet regularly over breakfasts, lunch, afternoon tea…

              *Christie’s reserves the right to change company benefits at any time

Closing Date: Thursday 12th February

Salary: £25,207 per annum

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