Marketing & Communication Internship

A Marketing & Communication degree teaches you a lot. But how do you ensure that people actually read your message? Which content works on social media? And how do you translate a technical story into something that customers, colleagues, or future employees understand? You primarily learn that by doing it. During your internship at Aqualectra, you will therefore be given the space to get to work yourself. You will create content for our social media channels and website, search for interesting stories within the organization, and translate these into communication that we actually use. You won't just observe, but will work increasingly independently on your own projects.

Aqualectra consists of three business units in Heerhugowaard, all of which communicate from a single brand. As a result, you will come into contact with many different subjects and people during your internship.

You will, among other things, work on:

• thinking up, creating, and scheduling content for our social media channels;
• writing and creating content for our website;
• creating and editing short videos for social media and YouTube;
• designing and laying out printed matter and advertisements;
• improving and updating our website;
• interviewing colleagues and gathering stories within the organization;
• taking photos and videos at our locations;
• researching new communication opportunities and converting these into concrete ideas.

Furthermore, there are various projects where you can express your creativity. For example, we want to develop a stock of good content for our various channels, launch TikTok for Aqualectra, and start making more short video content.

Do you have a better idea yourself? In fact, we would love that.

Work out your idea, discuss it with your internship supervisor, and show what you can do with it. As you demonstrate during your internship that you can handle more responsibility, you will also receive more freedom to take on projects independently.

At Aqualectra, Marketing & Communication is at the heart of the organization. Because of this, you are not just busy behind your computer. For a story, for example, you walk over to an engineer to discover what they are working on. Next, you go into the workshop to take photos or videos. This way, you can follow a project from the initial design to the moment a complete panel leaves our location. You create communication for different target groups: from our own colleagues and students to potential new employees, customers, and business relations. As a result, during your internship, you will not only learn how to create content, but especially why you create certain communication and what effect it has. We find that important, because Aqualectra positions itself as the panel builder with expertise for custom solutions, where pride, drive, expertise, and collaboration are important parts of the brand.

We are looking for an MBO 4 student who primarily is eager to learn the communication profession in practice.

So, you really don't need to know everything yet. After all, that is what you do an internship for. We find it more important that you are curious. That you ask questions when you don't understand something. That you dare to approach colleagues and that you are not afraid to come up with your own idea. Experience with Adobe, Canva, or social media is a plus, but not a requirement. During your internship, you will actually have the opportunity to gain experience with these. And if you make something once that doesn't work so well in the end? That is part of it. You learn from trying and making mistakes. Your supervisor remains responsible for what is ultimately published on behalf of Aqualectra.

By the end of your internship, we want you to leave Aqualectra as a communication professional.

Someone who can not only create a beautiful post, video, or flyer, but has also learned for whom you are communicating, what you want to achieve with it, and how you go from an idea to a good end result.