Details
Reference number
450057
Salary
£25,700
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97% GBP
Job grade
Administrative Assistant
Administrative Officer
NS&I Band 7
Contract type
Fixed term
Length of employment
12 months starting in August 2026
Business area
NS&I - Communications and Strategy
Type of role
Communications / Marketing
Working pattern
Full-time
Number of jobs available
1
Location
Southwark, London (region), SE1 9HA
About the job
Job summary
Please note this role is only available to current university students on a sandwich degree course, which has a requirement to complete a student placement year starting in August 2026 and with an expected graduation date in 2028.
This one year placement opportunity will see you joining our Internal Communications and Media & External Affairs teams. A unique position that will allow you to be part of all aspects of the communications functions at NS&I. Assisting and supporting with internal communications to employees and future talent via LinkedIn, and media relations and customer communications via our social media channels.
You’ll be encouraged to generate and develop ideas with the team and show your creativity, delivering engaging content that helps the team achieve their goals.
The team have supported a number of student placements and apprenticeship opportunities before. They have great experience and will be focused on making your time here an enjoyable and rewarding first step into your career.
Job description
Internal Communications:
- Work with the team to generate ideas and deliver content that is relatable, supportive, caring, and strikes curiosity and ambition in our people. This is part of our people promise and our priority to make NS&I a great place to work.
- Use creative skills to keep our communications fresh and exciting, delivering content across our internal channels through a variety of mediums including video production, building graphics, and producing compelling written content.
- Support the delivery of events, from pre-event support and logistics, to on-the-day event coordination, and post-event communications and measuring the event’s success.
Media & External Affairs:
- Work with Media Relations Manager to amplify activity around Premium Bonds each month, specifically by preparing press releases, using data and working with regional media, proactively suggesting different ways that we can tell stories.
Person specification
Essential experience
- Experience of using social media, including X (formerlyTwitter), Facebook, LinkedIn and online forums in a work (paid or voluntary) or study capacity
Essential qualifications
- Currently studying related degree with student placement year as part of sandwich course.
Essential skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Proficient software skills, including using Excel.
- Effective ability to prioritise and multi-task in a busy team environment.
Qualifications
Currently studying a degree course, which has a requirement to complete a student placement year (minimum commitment of 1 year, starting August 2026)
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
- Delivering at Pace
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £25,700, National Savings and Investments contributes £7,445 towards your membership in the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. NS&I is one of the largest savings organisations in the UK with more than 24 million customers and over £240 billion invested.
A small company with a big reach, we offer a range of benefits including flexible working, a 9-day fortnight scheme, a performance-related variable pay bonus, a generous pension scheme and great opportunities for development. We care for colleagues, respect one another, invest in our people and manage talent effectively.
Some benefits of working at NS&I include:
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible hybrid working options
- 9 day fortnight scheme
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 97%
- Generous annual leave – starting at 25 days, increasing to 30 days
- Performance related variable pay bonus
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
Things you need to know
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Applications may be withdrawn if plagiarism is identified.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
To apply, you must be a current university student on a sandwich degree course, which has a requirement to complete a student placement year starting in August 2026 and with an expected graduation date in 2028.
In your application, you will be asked to provide the following:
- A brief outline of your career history and qualifications.
- A 250-word personal statement on the knowledge/theory of Media and/or Communications obtained through your degree or experience that would benefit working in a busy media/internal communications team.
- A 250-word statement for each selected behaviour at application. Please use examples from your experience and knowledge to demonstrate how you meet them, addressing the essential criteria in the Person Specification. We recommend using the STAR method.
Interviews will take place in the week commencing 6th April 2026.
Right to Work
As part of our recruitment process, NS&I will ask about your right to work status. Candidates must have the right to work in the UK and meet eligibility requirements to work within the UK Civil Service. Note, we are currently unable to offer visa sponsorship, so candidates requiring sponsorship are not eligible to apply.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- Individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of Civil Servants. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities, running a Disability Confident Scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attracting and investing in talent wherever it is found.
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Details
Reference number
450057
Salary
£25,700
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97% GBP
Job grade
Administrative Assistant
Administrative Officer
NS&I Band 7
Contract type
Fixed term
Length of employment
12 months starting in August 2026
Business area
NS&I - Communications and Strategy
Type of role
Communications / Marketing
Working pattern
Full-time
Number of jobs available
1
Location
Southwark, London (region), SE1 9HA
About the job
Job summary
Please note this role is only available to current university students on a sandwich degree course, which has a requirement to complete a student placement year starting in August 2026 and with an expected graduation date in 2028.
This one year placement opportunity will see you joining our Internal Communications and Media & External Affairs teams. A unique position that will allow you to be part of all aspects of the communications functions at NS&I. Assisting and supporting with internal communications to employees and future talent via LinkedIn, and media relations and customer communications via our social media channels.
You’ll be encouraged to generate and develop ideas with the team and show your creativity, delivering engaging content that helps the team achieve their goals.
The team have supported a number of student placements and apprenticeship opportunities before. They have great experience and will be focused on making your time here an enjoyable and rewarding first step into your career.
Job description
Internal Communications:
- Work with the team to generate ideas and deliver content that is relatable, supportive, caring, and strikes curiosity and ambition in our people. This is part of our people promise and our priority to make NS&I a great place to work.
- Use creative skills to keep our communications fresh and exciting, delivering content across our internal channels through a variety of mediums including video production, building graphics, and producing compelling written content.
- Support the delivery of events, from pre-event support and logistics, to on-the-day event coordination, and post-event communications and measuring the event’s success.
Media & External Affairs:
- Work with Media Relations Manager to amplify activity around Premium Bonds each month, specifically by preparing press releases, using data and working with regional media, proactively suggesting different ways that we can tell stories.
Person specification
Essential experience
- Experience of using social media, including X (formerlyTwitter), Facebook, LinkedIn and online forums in a work (paid or voluntary) or study capacity
Essential qualifications
- Currently studying related degree with student placement year as part of sandwich course.
Essential skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Proficient software skills, including using Excel.
- Effective ability to prioritise and multi-task in a busy team environment.
Qualifications
Currently studying a degree course, which has a requirement to complete a student placement year (minimum commitment of 1 year, starting August 2026)
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
- Delivering at Pace
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £25,700, National Savings and Investments contributes £7,445 towards your membership in the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. NS&I is one of the largest savings organisations in the UK with more than 24 million customers and over £240 billion invested.
A small company with a big reach, we offer a range of benefits including flexible working, a 9-day fortnight scheme, a performance-related variable pay bonus, a generous pension scheme and great opportunities for development. We care for colleagues, respect one another, invest in our people and manage talent effectively.
Some benefits of working at NS&I include:
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible hybrid working options
- 9 day fortnight scheme
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 97%
- Generous annual leave – starting at 25 days, increasing to 30 days
- Performance related variable pay bonus
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
Things you need to know
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Applications may be withdrawn if plagiarism is identified.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
To apply, you must be a current university student on a sandwich degree course, which has a requirement to complete a student placement year starting in August 2026 and with an expected graduation date in 2028.
In your application, you will be asked to provide the following:
- A brief outline of your career history and qualifications.
- A 250-word personal statement on the knowledge/theory of Media and/or Communications obtained through your degree or experience that would benefit working in a busy media/internal communications team.
- A 250-word statement for each selected behaviour at application. Please use examples from your experience and knowledge to demonstrate how you meet them, addressing the essential criteria in the Person Specification. We recommend using the STAR method.
Interviews will take place in the week commencing 6th April 2026.
Right to Work
As part of our recruitment process, NS&I will ask about your right to work status. Candidates must have the right to work in the UK and meet eligibility requirements to work within the UK Civil Service. Note, we are currently unable to offer visa sponsorship, so candidates requiring sponsorship are not eligible to apply.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- Individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of Civil Servants. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities, running a Disability Confident Scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attracting and investing in talent wherever it is found.
