Corporate Affairs Intern (Sep - Dec 2026)

Role Purpose

The Corporate Affairs Intern is a high-trust role supporting the Head of Corporate Affairs across executive-office coordination, growth and partnerships, and AI thought leadership. The Intern will help turn priorities and external intelligence into well-prepared meetings, clear decisions, disciplined follow-through and executive-facing content for Temus’ priority clients and sectors.

The role suits a resourceful operator who can move between scheduling and stakeholder coordination, commercial research, concise writing and high-quality presentation work. It provides direct exposure to senior executives, client and partner agendas, and the practical application of AI in enterprise transformation.

Key Accountabilities

1. Executive Office and Strategic Coordination

• Coordinate the Head’s priority external meetings, including scheduling across internal and external stakeholders, agendas, logistics and materials.
• Prepare concise meeting briefs covering participants, context, objectives, decisions required, sensitivities and recommended next steps.
• Maintain a disciplined action and decision tracker; issue meeting notes and follow up with owners so commitments do not stall.
• Support selected correspondence, presentations and executive-office administration with sound judgement, accuracy and discretion.

1. Growth and Partnerships Support

• Research priority sectors, client accounts, partner ecosystems, government programmes and co-funding routes to identify actionable opportunities.
• Develop account and partner briefs, stakeholder maps, value hypotheses, meeting materials and follow-up packs for Growth and partnership discussions.
• Maintain current Growth and Partnerships records, including contacts, opportunities, actions, evidence and handoffs to named business owners.
• Support the preparation of pitch decks, proposals, partner programmes and market-facing activations.

1. Executive AI Thought Leadership and Client Engagement

• Track material developments in enterprise AI, data, regulation and Temus’ priority sectors.
• Produce a weekly internal AI and sector-intelligence digest for Temus’ client executives.
• Develop a monthly client-executive thought-leadership package, which may include a briefing note, point of view, presentation, article, event concept or channel-ready content.
• Translate validated Temus capabilities and customer evidence into clear executive narratives, while observing technical validation, client consent and claims standards.
• Maintain an editorial and distribution calendar so priority themes reach the right client executives through owned, earned, shared, paid and direct-engagement channels.

Expected Outputs in the First 90 Days

• A reliable weekly rhythm for the Head’s calendar, meeting briefs, decisions and follow-through.
• Current Growth and partner trackers with clear owners, next actions and evidence.
• A repeatable weekly intelligence digest and monthly client-executive content cadence.
• Consistently accurate, executive-ready research, decks and written materials that require limited rework.

Professional Skills

• Research and synthesis: Able to extract implications from complex market, policy, company and technology information.
• Writing and storytelling: Strong command of English; able to write crisp briefs, executive correspondence, presentations and thought leadership.
• Coordination and execution: Highly organised, attentive to detail and dependable in managing calendars, stakeholders, actions and deadlines.
• AI fluency: Strong interest in enterprise AI and responsible use of AI tools for research, analysis and content development; verifies sources and outputs.
• Presentation craft: Able to build clear, persuasive PowerPoint materials and work confidently with Word, Excel and collaboration tools.
• Commercial judgement: Understands how market intelligence, partnerships, communications and customer evidence support business development.
• Personality and Interpersonal Skills
• Mature, discreet and comfortable handling confidential information and senior stakeholders.
• Intellectually curious, commercially minded and willing to challenge weak assumptions with evidence.
• Proactive and resourceful: Anticipates needs, closes loops and escalates risks early.
• Collaborative and low-ego, with the judgement to work independently and ask for direction when required.
• Resilient and adaptable in a fast-moving environment with competing priorities.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a diploma, undergraduate or graduate degree in Business, Economics, Public Policy, Communications, Marketing, Technology, Data/AI or a related field.
• Strong academic, project or extracurricular evidence of research, writing, leadership or execution.
• Prior internship or project experience in consulting, technology, corporate affairs, research, business development or partnerships is advantageous.
• Fluent in English; proficiency in another regional language is advantageous.