Proposals Intern - #1700602

The Company

Christie’s, the world’s largest Art Business, is an incredibly exciting & enriching place to start or continue your career. Whether you work within one of our Specialist Art Departments, or in one of our more Operational teams, we are all working together with one common goal in mind: to continue the success of this 250 year old company, steeped in history, bringing fresh ideas whilst not forgetting our shared values; Integrity, Excellence, Innovation, Responsibility & Relationships. Colleagues across all departments are truly passionate about what they do and it is inspiring to work with industry leaders across our business.

Why This Role Matters

Christie’s is looking for an enthusiastic intern to join our dynamic Proposals team in London.

Proposals is a small but high-performing team that produces bespoke proposals to convince clients to sell their works of art with Christie’s. You will play a pivotal role within the team, supporting the department’s three writers and two graphic designers to produce persuasive, beautifully designed, high-quality proposal documents/presentations – to tight deadlines – in order to win crucial business for Christie’s.

The successful candidate will be required to work in the office at Christie’s King Street five days a week.

How You'll Make An Impact

Your duties will include, but are not limited to:

• As necessary, assisting with producing proposal documents for Christie’s departments, such as collating images, writing image captions and helping on proposals content.
• Assist in formatting and filing all view/event/auction shots commissioned from external photographer, and ensure that the department image database and photography tracker are constantly updated.
• Scanning images for the team as needed, and using Adobe Photoshop to edit and format images when necessary.
• Requesting/obtaining images from our in-house systems; ensuring they arrive quickly and are formatted as necessary on arrival.
• Keeping departmental information folders up to date, such as those containing press quotations, staff biographies, staff signatures and specialist team pages.
• Maintaining the Proposals Department Library, including combing other libraries across the organisation to ensure comprehensive and up-to-date images and information are easily available.
• Assisting the team in updating the Filemaker database, tagging each record after project completion to enable detailed searches.
• Being the point of contact for other Christie’s departments and Christie’s regional Proposal teams in Paris, New York and Hong Kong; supplying pdfs, images or other info as necessary.
• Using the Proposals Archive server to answer any queries about historic proposals.
• Organising the monthly writers’ meeting, including preparing the agenda and circulating minutes.
• General housekeeping of the departmental printer/meeting room, including co-ordinating printer maintenance, maintenance of proposals archive and ordering office supplies.
• Printing and binding documents in-house.
• Photocopying.
• Post and courier duties.
• Other administrative duties and general research to assist the writing team.
  
  

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• Native-level fluency in English (written and spoken)
• Minimum of BA degree or equivalent
• Passion for and interest in art
• First-class writing skills, including excellent grammar
• A strong sense of personal accountability
• Able to work well as part of a team
• Highly organised, with strong time management skills
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Quick to learn and implement
• Able to work well under pressure
• A strong sense of initiative
• Confident, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to prioritise and manage a diverse workload
• The energy and commitment to work the hours necessary to meet tight deadlines
• A “can-do”, positive attitude
• Computer literate, preferably familiar with Mac and Adobe Creative Suite, although training can be given
  
  

Closing Date: Sunday 25th May