Press Relations Officer Intern

  • Intern

Company Description

BlaBlaCar is the global leader in long-distance carpooling. We are an innovative and fast-growing company building a unique community of members to transform the way people travel!

For more information about us, please visit www.BlaBlaCar.com/DreamJobs

Job Description

Why join us?

As BlaBlaCar pursues its ambitious development in France, we are looking for an Associate Press Relations Officer to join the local France & Benelux team. You will be joining a very skilled and motivated team of people, whose goal is to accelerate BlaBlaCar's growth in France & Benelux.

As the Press Relations Officer Intern, you will be in charge of handling relations with journalists in order to support BlaBlaCar communication through media. You will directly report to the PR Manager France & Benelux, in addition to regular interactions with our Founders.

What you will directly contribute to:

  • Participate in defining our French PR strategy;

  • Writing of press releases;

  • Managing incoming calls of journalists and follow-up;

  • Monitoring of media coverage;

  • Organizing TV/Radio reports and interviews;

  • Taking care of interviewees media training and Q/A draft;

  • Updating our BlaBlaCar Newsroom;

  • Organizing conferences;

  • Push messages through different kinds of media (corporate, consumer…).

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful:

  • Currently in your final year of a PR/Journalism degree (Sciences Po, Journalism school or any other relevant studies);

  • Highly passionate about the press and media ecosystem;

  • Having previous experience in PR/Journalism (6-months internship, student association, etc.);

  • Native level in French and fluent in English;

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

  • Ability to work with international teams;

  • Ability to work autonomously with tight deadlines and fast-learner;

  • Great interpersonal skills;

  • Fun and Serious.

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role:

  • Start: As soon as you are ready!

  • Location: Paris HQ

  • Contract: Internship

  • Compensation: 1 000 euros gross monthly

What we offer all of our employees:

  • A start-up spirit that fosters agility, teamwork and impact;

  • An inspiring working environment including state-of-the-art office spaces;

  • Free carpooling to live our value “Think it. Build it. Use it.”;

  • Weekly BlaBlaTalks when we learn from each other;

  • Weekly Tech Demos;

  • And many more benefits - check them out on BlaBlaCar.com/dreamjobs.

What is next

If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below: upload your resume in English (PDF format) and answer our questions in English.

Kindly note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.

You can expect us to review your application within the following 2 weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements, we will send you invite you to a first call followed by a two interviews sessions in our offices in Paris.