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Job Title: Intern - Digital Education
Location: London
Closing Date: 7/20/2012
Salary Range: Competitive salary offered for this internship

Intern

Digital Education

Digital Education, is leading the establishing of a global online education venture. We are incubating and investing in exciting digital education ventures, which focus on making learning fun and more effective, and could benefit from the deep capabilities and global market leadership of Macmillan and its parent, Holtzbrinck GmbH in education and media. Some of our existing businesses include tutoria.de, cramlr.com, heytutor.com. Digital Education is also involved in a number of Venture Capital Investments.

Macmillan Publishers Ltd is one of the largest and best known international publishing groups in the world. It is characterized by high-quality academic and scholarly, educational, fiction and non-fiction publishing in many forms; from STM and social science journals to serious non-fiction and literary fiction; from educational course materials and dictionaries to college textbooks, academic monographs and reference with supporting online resource sites.

As a privately-owned company, one of Macmillan's strengths is its ability to focus on organic development and investment for the long term. Macmillan prides itself on a willingness to innovate as well as on employing visionary people with the creative and business sense to develop and implement new ideas. This focus has successfully led to the expansion of the group into new business areas and an ability to innovate, especially in the digital space.

We are offering a versatile internship with a lot of opportunities to work independently and gain insight in to many ventures and activities of Digital Education. We are looking for the suitable candidate to start in August and in return will offer competitive payment & interesting work which would be invaluable for the successful candidate. A successful internship will carry strong potential to translate into an exciting full time position within the new venture/s

The job includes a wide range of regular and project oriented tasks in the following areas:

Involvement in key strategic research projects

Preparation and creation of Presentations for key stakeholders

Analysis of data and findings from the research projects carried out

Market entry analyses (e.g., into mobile and online English language learning) within specific areas and make suggestions of possible business models that may be suitable for these markets.

This will involve both primary and secondary research into key competitors and customers.

Applicants must have an existing right to live and work in the United Kingdom.

This position is based in our offices in Kings Cross, London.

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