Research Associate
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Job description:
The company is offering a placement opportunity for suitably qualified and motivated students. They are looking to significantly expand online traffic to their niche web community sites. Reporting to the Managing Director, the roles have a mix of tasks and responsibilities all centred on building online traffic.
One of their main goals, however, is to build a Wikipedia-style online catalogue that is ultimately intended to include every toy and model ever produced.
The Company is using their own bespoke wiki software and requires that information be edited into a specific format for upload via spreadsheet. Information spreadsheets are submitted by volunteers from the site community, from manufacturers directly and created by ourselves and range in size from covering just one or two entries to thousands of items.
The role would suit someone with an interest in editing, sub-editing, data cataloguing or similar.
Responsibilities include:
* Sub-editing user-submitted spreadsheets for compliance with established conventions
* Where very large amounts of data need to be categorised, defining and optimising data categorisations for ease of use and amending user-submitted spreadsheets accordingly
* Creating category data spreadsheets from scratch
* Explaining the formatting requirements to users and assisting them with any queries or problems they encounter
* Assisting the marketing team with solicitation of volunteers from the collecting community for the provision of information
* Other editorial tasks around
* General Office Duties
Essential requirments:
* Fluent written & spoken English skills
* Studying for a relevant degree
* Knowledge web marketing techniques
* Good IT skills (this is not a technical web or IT position)
* Enthusiastic
* Tenacious
* Willing to learn
* Team player
* Good communication and interpersonal skills
Additional requirments:
* Previous web marketing experience will be an advantage though not essential
* An interest ort knowledge of toys and models
About the company:
* The Company runs online community sites. Their first community is a web community for the 4 billion world-wide vintage and collectible toy community with these functions:
* Blogs, clubs, directories, competitions, events, forums, friendships, galleries, reviews, videos
* A wiki style catalogue of every toy ever produced
* Context engine allowing all content to be personalised (a member sees only Batman stuff, or Teddy Bears or Fire Engines, for example, - subject to what he/she likes or chooses)
* A Google Finance style Collection Management capability that links press releases and buy/sell events to track the current value of individual collectables together with a collectors entire portfolio.
* There are plans for other communities (stamps, coins, sporting memorabilia etc.)
Internship placement location:
* Based in offices in Buckinghamshire.
* Close to all the amenities that you would expect from a capital city.
Remuneration:
A training allowance of £500 a month will be provided to assist with accommodation and subsistence costs.
