2025 Summer Internship - Strategic Communications

• Are you passionate about solving problems and looking for a challenge in your career?
• Do you have great communication and writing skills that you wish to apply in a team environment?
• Are you personable and want to form relationships that will last for a lifetime

At FTI Consulting, we’re looking for future experts with impact to join our ever-growing award winning Strategic Communications business. We invest in our graduates’ career development from day one, providing top notch training and enabling access to a broad network of professionals to work with and learn from.

We are a meritocratic organisation. We prioritise diversity of thought and welcome unique viewpoints that challenge us to think differently, and creatively. Our professionals come from a variety of backgrounds, with diverse capabilities and experience, but they all share our values and commitment to great work, striving for excellence in everything they do.

We are passionate about recruiting, developing, and training the best candidates. Whatever your university or degree discipline, if you are a motivated individual with the skills and desire to pursue a career in strategic communications and public relations, we encourage you to apply!

About FTI Consulting’s Strategic Communications practice

The Strategic Communications segment within FTI Consulting designs, develops and executes communications strategies for clients managing financial, regulatory, and reputational challenges. For more than 35 years, we have served as trusted advisers to management teams and Boards of Directors seeking to seize opportunities, manage crises, navigate market disruptions, and preserve their right to operate. We help businesses articulate their brand and competitive position, and work with them to share their corporate messages most effectively with key stakeholders – whether these are investors, policy makers, employees or consumers, through both traditional and digital PR channels.

With over 300+ colleagues across the London office, we sit in specialist teams or in cross-sector practices.

Our sector teams:

• Financial services
• Retail and consumer
• Natural resources and energy
• Real estate and property
• Industrials
• Technology media and telecoms
• Life sciences and healthcare

Our cross-sector practices include:

• Public affairs
• People and transformation
• Crisis preparedness and management
• Special situations
• Digital and Insights
• Litigation
• International campaigns and issues management

Our clients range from start-ups to multinational companies; from household names to cutting edge businesses – and everything in between. As each sector team has an average of 20 colleagues, our employees enjoy the advantages of working at a global, multi-disciplinary firm, while benefitting from the tight-knit culture of specialised teams.

About the Summer Internship

Our London-based paid summer internship will place you in a sector-specific or cross-sector team for the duration of your eight-week internship so you can learn from experts in their respective fields. You will be immersed in a fast-paced learning environment, where your development will be supported by "on-the-job” training from colleagues and senior members of your teams.

During your time with us, you will:

• Gain an insight into the financial, regulatory, and reputational challenges faced by businesses and their leaders
• Learn how FTI advises businesses to mitigate risks and achieve successful outcomes through communications strategies
• Understand how FTI uses communications strategies to engage stakeholders and ensure that the right message reaches the right audience at the right time

Throughout the internship, you will be supported by a performance coach and a buddy who will provide day to day oversight and guide you during your time with us. You will be part of a larger internship cohort, both within Strategic Communications and the wider FTI Consulting business. As such, you will have a great network around you of like-minded young professionals and those dedicated to furthering your career development.

At FTI Consulting, we work hard to create an inclusive and high-performing culture in which our professionals can grow their careers and achieve their full potential, while also ensuring that we cultivate a fast-paced, supportive, and exciting learning environment.

As such, there are regular networking events and other social activities to get involved in, both with other graduates and the rest of the firm. There are also groups dedicated to embracing, cultivating, and maintaining the diverse and inclusive nature of our team, including our Race, Identity, Social Equity (RISE) network, women’s initiative (FTI WIN), our Pride network, neurodiversity network and Parents network.

What You’ll Do

Your typical day might include the following:

• Supporting and engaging with clients on a day-to-day basis
• Supporting colleagues on new business proposals
• Summary and analytical tasks, gauging audience and communications impact, for example compiling coverage reports or conducting media and digital landscape analysis
• Drafting press releases and other written communication documents
• ’Selling in’ press releases or seeking feedback on a client strategy
• Preparing briefing notes for our clients
• Undertaking a variety of research tasks for existing clients
• Supporting clients at events

What you will need to succeed

• An interest in exploring a career in communications and PR
• Be in your penultimate year of study and be expected to obtain a 2:1 degree (or equivalent) at any university or degree discipline
• A great work ethic and ‘can do’ attitude
• Show an interest in, and understanding of, the different forms of media
• Excellent writing, grammar and numeracy skills (these will be tested as part of the interview process)
• Outstanding communication skills – in person, in writing and on the phone
• Good detail orientation, time management and self-organisation
• An ability to work individually and as part of a team
• Creative flair and the ability to think outside the box
• Proactivity, and confidence to volunteer for a task without being asked
• An adaptable approach to work, particularly in pressurised situations, and being able to think on your feet
• An ability to grasp and succinctly summarise complex issues
• An ability to network and build contacts

Please note: this is NOT a management consulting, strategy consulting or marketing role.

How to apply

• Candidates are required to submit a current curriculum vitae (CV) or resume which clearly shows how you meet the expectations outlined above
• If your CV or resume meets our criteria, you will then be asked to make a video submission, answering a number of questions – you will have 48 hours to complete this task, once received

Key dates

• Applications open: 18 November 2024
• Closing date for applications: 9 January 2025
• Successful candidates from the application and video questions will be asked to participate in a virtual interview w/c 10 February 2025
  • Please note: invitations for interviews will be sent early February 2025
• Assessment centres will be held in week 24th of February
• Successful candidates will be contacted following assessment centres no later than the 7th of March 2025.
• The internship runs from 30 June 2025 for eight weeks
• Candidates that successfully complete the internship programme will be considered for a place on the FTI Consulting Strategic Communications graduate scheme, commencing in September 2026

Total Wellbeing

Our goal is to support the well-being of you and your families - physically, emotionally, and financially. We offer market competitive benefits (including pension), supplemented by 15 adaptable benefits, to meet your needs. These include health, lifestyle and family-friendly options. We also offer professional development programmes, wellness, recognition, community volunteering initiatives, and changeable/hybrid working arrangements.

About FTI Consulting

FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping clients with their most significant opportunities and challenges. With more than 8,000 employees located in 33 countries and territories, our broad and diverse bench of award–winning experts advise their clients when they are facing their most significant opportunities and challenges. At FTI Consulting, we embrace, cultivate and maintain a culture of diversity, inclusion & belonging, which are fundamental components to our core values. FTI Consulting is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and has been recognized as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms by Forbes. For more information, visit our website and connect with us on Instagram and LinkedIn.

FTI Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, protected veteran status, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.