Intern - Digital Hub - London, United Kingdom - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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Requisition ID Office Country- United Kingdom- Office City- London- Division- Policy and Partnerships- Contract Type- Intern- Contract Length- 06 months- Posting End Date- 16/02/2024
Purpose of Job

About EBRD Digital Hub


As part of the Client Services Group (CSG), and further part of the Vice-Presidency for Policy and Partnerships (VP3), Bank's Digital Hub oversees, advises on and coordinates all client-facing digital activities across a network that is embedded in sector teams (Sustainable Infrastructure Group, Financial Institutions, and Industry, Commerce & Agribusiness), as well as the Policy Service Delivery Unit.

'Accelerating the digital transition' is one of the three cross-cutting themes of the Bank's medium-term Strategy (the Strategic and Capital Framework which states that by 2025 the Bank will have launched comprehensive and coherent activities to help countries of operations leverage the digital transition as an enabler of transition across all sectors. To operationalise this digital mandate, the Bank has developed a Digital Approach that outlines its vision of how to embed digital aspects across its investment, policy and advisory services.


Under the supervision of the Digital Hub, the Intern will support the entire team in the smooth functioning of the Digital Hub and implementation of the EBRD Digital Approach across the Bank.


We are looking for a digitally skilled intern to support developing a compelling product range to help our clients in their digital transformation journey, contribute to the evaluation of their digital projects including goals and risks, and setting up and maintaining internal tools to follow-up our various projects and investments.

Specifically, the intern will focus on supporting the following activities:

Digital Hub operations and organisational development

  • Enhance and maintain the Digital Hub's Data sets and the Office 365 followup tool used to monitor activities and ongoing projects and to generate associated reports. Propose updates and relevant automations.
  • Contribute to the weekly Project Working Group (PWG) tasks, and ensure a first level assessment of new projects: research relevant internal/external content and available technologies and solutions to qualify the digital angle, the project transition quality and impact, and evaluate the risks, including cyber risks.
  • Support with the review of pipeline projects to discuss and tag after discussion at the PWG.
  • Support the Hub in discussions with banking teams on how/where to expand direct investment and lending technologybased companies, both to incumbent companies looking to digitally transform their businesses and also challengers/disruptors looking to transform their sectors with digital business model.
  • Support the Hub on its organisational aspects and assist when necessary with the Hub's management, speaking engagements at conferences and internal events, and participation in key meetings.
  • Support the elaboration of a new portal promoting EBRD's digital products, tools and service catalogue: collaborate with internal teams to gather requirements and ideas, write functional and technical specification, contribute to functional tests, followup and reports project progress and risks.
  • Support the elaboration of new tools and standardised advisory offering to help clients digitalise key business functions, including implementation roadmaps for each business function (product/process management, digital marketing, accounting, etc.), realise market studies, evaluate, or elaborate digital maturity assessment models and questionnaires.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Qualifications

Key skills required

  • Great understanding of digital transformation challenges and trends.
  • Prior MS Excel and PowerPoint experience required.
  • Experience with Microsoft Office 365 tools, Power BI, Power Automate and development skills would be preferred.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and draw insights from data. Quantitative/numerical skills to the extent necessary to understand the Bank's financial and operational data, and to perform basic data analysis.
  • Detailoriented, with proven ability to multitask, lead on simple projects and get engaged in complex issues.
  • Good understanding and interest in the issues of economics and banking, and familiarity with the EBRD region.
  • Excellent written (report writing, editing, correspondence) and verbal communication skills in English.
  • Basic understanding of digital project management principles.
  • A proactive team player, with cando attitude and good people skills.

Eligibility

  • Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, data analytics, economics, banking and finance, or another discipline relevant to the Digital Hub key activities.
  • Limited previous work experience desirable.

Terms and conditions
Interns are remunerated according to their lev
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