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The AMK Internship Programme
About The AMK Internship Programme (AIP)
AIP is designed to be a hands-on real-world learning experience aimed at attracting talented young women and men who are strongly motivated to share new perspectives, innovative ideas and latest research experience in a number of key strategic business areas including but not limited to:
➢ Media And Communication
➢ Accounting And Finance
➢ Business Strategy And Development
The AMK Internship Programme is also designed to allow us to:
➢ Create more time for current team members to work on other advanced or creative projects.
➢ Apply the latest strategies and technology in the field.
➢ Enhance our social strategy and social media presence, promoting public relations and community involvement.
➢ Provide mentorship and leadership opportunities for team members.
➢ Generate awareness of our organization for future hires and create enthusiasm among other students.
➢ Introduce fresh perspectives on organizational opportunities in technical areas and administrative programmes such as communication, external relations and human resources.
What Are The Objectives of AIP?
- Provide a framework for assigning eligible students from diverse academic backgrounds to AMK’s growing Business Units and Client base, where their educational experience can be enhanced through capacity building opportunities.
- Provide an opportunity for AMK Business Units and Client base to benefit from engagement with students specializing in various fields related to the Media And Communication, and Business Strategy And Development.
Who Is Eligible For An Internship?
Age:
You are at least eighteen (18) years of age on the date of application.
Education:
➢ You are enrolled in a course of study at a university or equivalent institution leading to a formal qualification (undergraduate, graduate, or postgraduate), in a field related to the business of AMK.
➢ Applicants who have already completed a qualification may also qualify for consideration, if they apply to the internship within six months following the completion of the formal qualification.
➢ You have completed three years of full-time studies at a university or equivalent institution prior to starting (bachelor’s level or equivalent) the internship.
Languages:
You are fluent in English
Family relation:
You are not related to a current AMK Team member (e.g., son/daughter, brother/sister, or mother/father).
Nationality:
Must be a Jamaican national
Residence:
Interns living in the preferred or assigned geographic location will be given preference.
Other:
You have not previously participated in AMK’s Internship Programme.
How To Apply?
We invite candidates from across Jamaica to apply to the AMK Internship Programme.
More information on the recruitment process can be secured by email to amkcommunications@gmail.com.
Internship positions are available year-round in various areas of work and in different parts of the organization and operating locations (regional offices, country offices or headquarters). As internship opportunities are posted on a continuous basis, with each containing different requirements and application deadlines, we encourage you to check the AMK Communications Limited LinkedIn Page regularly for new opportunities.
General Information On The AMK Internship Programme (AIP)
Duration: Interns are expected to work between 20 and 40 hours a week during an 8 to 12-week internship period. Internships are offered during the Summer, Fall, and Winter/Spring semesters. Interns may receive academic credit if an agreement is made between AMK and the intern’s college or university. All interns are subject to the applicable AMK employee rules, including its Employment Dispute Resolution Policy.
Medical And Accident Insurance Coverage: AMK on a case by case basis will provides interns with medical and accident insurance coverage during the duration of the internship period. Where applied insurance coverage before the start date of the internship and after the end date of the internship, including travel to and from the duty station location, is the sole personal and financial responsibility of the individual intern.
Learning Objectives And Goals: We endeavour to work with established tertiary institutions to prepare well-rounded students who are able to meet the requirements of the marketplace giving them on- the-job- experience.
Full Time Employment: Interns also have the opportunity to advance to full time employment with AMK.
Stipend: AMK will provide a stipend to assist interns with transportation and meals during the internship period.
Daily Responsibilities: Interns will be assigned to short and medium-term projects, in addition to Supervised Assignments for special projects. Specific assignments will be given with clear measurable deliverables.
Who will supervise and mentor the intern(s)? A team member from AMK will be assigned to each intern.
What do we want our intern(s) to accomplish during the program? We expect that the experience will close the learning, experience and information gap between classroom learning and real work engagements.
What Will Orientation Entail? A two (2) hour introduction to the company, relevant policies, roles and expectations, evaluations, opportunities after internship etc.
Evaluations.
An introduction evaluation will be done by the assigned supervisor and the intern to establish base lines for performance and deliverables.
This will be followed by weekly evaluations and feedback sessions, conducted with each intern and the assigned supervisor. The conversation will look at how the intern is progressing and contributing, strengths and areas needing growth, and any other feedback for the intern. Required adjustments made for the upcoming week.
Intern will also prepare and present a weekly report on assigned project status and ask questions.
The intern will also prepare and present an evaluation of their time at the organisation.
The intern will also maintain a daily diary of their activities.
An exit interview may also be conducted with the supervisor, intern and two other persons, one from the intern’s tertiary institution and the other from AMK’s Human Resource team. Questions will be asked on all sides to gather feedback on the program and the intern’s experience.
Based on the outcome of the exit interview, Interns may be invited to advance to full time employment with AMK.
DIGITAL MARKETING ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES – REMOTE
About The Assignment – Remote
BlackSlate is searching for a few fearless and highly motivated Marketing Executives to join the fast-growing team at CLICK DIGITAL AGENCY.
If selected you will help create compelling experiences through thrilling brand campaigns for our clients. Ideally you should be gifted with expert stakeholder relations, great communication and high levels of proactivity and leadership. You will join a team of equally talented individuals who are comfortable devising and executing multichannel strategies, lead generating initiatives as well as displaying senior brand management skills.
This is a unique opportunity to work on the some of Jamaica’s and the world’s best brands,
Some Key Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day support of client requirements
- Serves as the main point of contact between clients and the wider Click Team
- Conduct in-depth needs assessment to better understand each client’s requirements.
- Provide day-to-day supervision and execution of client requirements including but not limited to the various marketing channels
- Provide key insights, popular content topics, USPs,
- Working with the wider Click team to brief social media, creative, PR and external suppliers and teams to assist with the formulation of integrated campaign strategies and support in the execution thereof.
- Regularly checks in on clients to ensure they’re satisfied with the relevant campaigns/initiatives.
- Addresses any concerns or issues a client may have and working with the wider click team and management to resolve them.
- Collaborate with the campaign planning team to leverage digital advertising and organic/paid promotional activities where appropriate.
- Work with analytics and reports and oversee preparation of metrics, tracking and activity monthly, annual and ad hoc reports as based on client reporting needs.
- Understanding of the marketing channels, digital capabilities and technology trends.
Strategic Goals
- Support the running of a productive and vibrant team and department
- Support teams to create and execute strategic marketing and sales campaigns
- Post-campaign evaluation to ensure success and that client’s needs are met and they are satisfied.
- Generate new business and clients by capitalising on sales opportunities/support sales initiatives and marketing campaigns.
- Maintain current knowledge of the full range of products and services across the Blackslate Group.
- Fiercely drive the marketing and sales interests of our clients and any other brands as required
- Help create a glowing reputation for the department and the company based on its creativity, efficiency and performance
- Drive sales and awareness through the participation in weekly creative meetings, team meetings, brainstorming sessions
Send us your resume and professional accomplishment to amkcommunications@gmail.com. Replies will be sent to shortlisted prospects only.
CLICK DIGITAL AGENCY…………..Is a “Silicon Mountain” Jamaica based interactive advertising agency offering a full range of advertising and marketing solutions, including display, search and website development, committed and focused on providing SME businesses, owned and operated by Entrepreneurs, experiencing budget constraints, with customizable, on and off-line marketing and advertising services at affordable rates and services, offering high levels of convenience and quality.
CLICK DIGITAL AGENCY is a fully owned subsidiary of AMK Communications Limited
AMK Communications Limited…..AMK is a professional boutique agency, focused on B2C (business-to-consumer) and B2B (business-to-business) Brand Strategy and Execution Consulting Services. We work on very selective projects for a very few clients each year. Our services informed by market research includes but not limited to co-coordinating concept and creative development, production and execution, and the strategic positioning of advertising and related communications ensuring the brand’s message is distributed across channels and targeted audiences in order to meet revenue and profit objectives.
• Brand Analysis and Strategy
• Creative Concept Development
• Development Branding & Design
• Campaign and Promotion
We also take responsibility for strategic planning and development, branding, market research strategies for all primary and related brands working with your assigned advertising agencies, media houses and other third-party organizations for the execution of approved marketing programmes and strategies for the Brand (s).
CLICK DIGITAL AGENCY and AMK Communications Limited are part of the Blackslate Holdings Group of Companies.
BlackSlate Holdings Group
Welcome to BlackSlate, we are a privately owned Jamaican registered holding company for a diverse group of companies and investments operating in the USA and across the Caribbean. Our primary aim is to provide our select group of shareholders with safe and consistent returns on their investments through a diversified portfolio of regional and international investments.
The BlackSlate Holdings Group Limited seeks to hold and manage investments in wholly owned subsidiaries and investments in real estate, patents, trademarks, stocks and other tradable assets.
BlackSlate also offers a range of centralized corporate services including policy direction and management services.
1. Our Focus:
Our focus is identifying and securing private equity positions in small and medium sized companies which have a strong business model and potential for growth.
Corporate Support
BlackSlate supports all links of our investments and businesses under one holding company, spearheaded by investments, community development and outreach.
2. Investment Profile
BlackSlate’s investments streamline between technology, real estate and travel experiences
Foundation:
The Walkbout Foundation – Encouraging Travel As A Way Of Developing Human Capacity And Experiences.
The Walkbout Foundation in addition to its support of Environmental Activities encourages travel as a way of developing human capacity and experiences. As such each year we will sponsor and support individuals under the age of 25, to take trips to destinations around the world. This is funded through a percentage of our net revenues each year, allowing young adults to enjoy diverse cultures, food, and beverages on an international stage.
Privacy Policy
BlackSlate Holdings Group Limited (BlackSlate) has created this privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to the privacy of personal information provided by clients who utilise our products and services. We hold the privacy of our clients’ personal information in the highest regard.
We recognize the importance of protecting your privacy and our policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our website, mobile applications and other electronic services that aggregately support our offerings. This policy will be continuously assessed against new technologies, international best practices, general data protection and privacy regulations as well as our evolving clients’ needs.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you access our products and services you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you browse our website or use our mobile applications.
- Personal Information you Choose to Provide
Registration and/or Proposal Information
When you register or apply for any of our products or services you will be required to provide us with information about yourself. If you choose to access any of our products and services, you may need to give personal information such as, but not limited to: name; marital status; occupation and income details; mailing address; e-mail address; business, home and mobile phone numbers.
Email Information
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the contents of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.
How do we use the information that you provide us?
Generally, we use personal information for the purposes of administering our business activities, providing the products and services you requested, processing payment, monitoring the use of our services, aiding our marketing and promotional efforts, improving our content and service offerings, customizing our website’s content, layout and services as well as other lawful purposes. These uses assist to improve our products and services and better tailor them to meet our clients’ needs. Furthermore, such information may be shared with others on an aggregate basis. Personally identifiable information or business information will not be shared with parties except as required by law.
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our website, mobile applications, new services, and special offers we think you will find valuable. You may notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive these offers by emailing us at blackslateholdings@gmail.com or by selecting the unsubscribe links, where applicable.
- Website Use Information
Similar to other websites, our website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” (see explanation below) and web server log files to collect information about how our website is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent on our website, and the websites visited immediately before and immediately after your visit to our website.
What are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that website’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other websites. Browsers are usually set to accept cookies. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you may alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our website will not function as effectively when viewed by the users. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive or pass on computer viruses.
How do we use information we collect from Cookies?
As you visit and browse our website, cookies are used to differentiate you from other users. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from having to log in more than is necessary for security reasons. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server’s log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our website and which pages of our website are most frequently visited. This helps us gather feedback to constantly improve our website and better serve our clients. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not intentionally store any personal information that your browser provided to us via cookies.
IP Addresses
IP addresses are used by your computer every time you are connected to the Internet. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer. IP addresses are automatically collected by our web server as part of demographic and profile data known as traffic data so that more relevant information can be shared with you.
Sharing and Selling Information
We do not share, sell, lend or lease any of the information that uniquely identify a subscriber (such as email addresses or personal details) with anyone except to the extent that is necessary to process transactions, provide services that you have requested or as is required by law.
If third party companies are contracted to perform services for us on our behalf, then the contractual arrangement will require such companies to keep the information we provide confidential and to only use such information to the extent of the authorisation we provide.
How can you access and Correct your Personal Information?
You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online or otherwise and maintain in our database by emailing us at blackslateholdings@gmail.com or by calling us at 1-876-630-2216.
Location of your Record
Your record, whether electronic or paper, is kept at the offices of BlackSlate. Paper records forming part of your client record may also be kept in offsite storage. In accordance with our disaster recovery policies, your client record may be transferred to other locations overseas.
What about Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights. We may also disclose information when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating BlackSlate’s Terms and Conditions or to protect the safety of our users and the general public.
What about other websites linked to our website?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our website or the information or content contained therein. Often links to other websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our website.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website to another, our Privacy Policy is no longer applicable. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link on our website, is subject to that website’s own rules and policies. It is highly recommended that you read the rules and policies governing those websites before utilising same.
Your Consent
By using our website and other electronic services you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to amend this policy at any time with or without notice.
Our Commitment to Data Security
Please note that your information will be on our secure servers using the most up to date global data compliance policies and technology. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Limits on time that Personal Information is kept
BlackSlate will hold your personal information as long as it is necessary or as required by law. If or when BlackSlate destroys the information, BlackSlate will use safeguards to prevent unauthorized parties from gaining access to the information during such process.
Choice/Opt-In/Opt-Out
Our website, mobile applications, platforms and other electronic offerings allow clients to voluntarily subscribe, unsubscribe or cease to utilize the services. Consequently, future access to that service is conditional on the action taken.
Surveys
From time-to-time our website requests information from users via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact (such as name) and demographic details (such as Country of Residency). Survey information will be used for the purposes of monitoring or improving the use of and to measure your satisfaction with our products, services and corporate citizenship initiatives.
Acquisition or Changes in Ownership
In the event that the website (or a substantial portion of its assets) is acquired, your information may be deemed a part of those assets and may be transferred to the acquirer.
Modifications to the Privacy Policy
BlackSlate may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Generally, as a regular course of business and for ease of reference, we may post any change to the policy on our website. However, please be assured that if the Privacy Policy changes in the future, we will not use the personal information you have submitted to us under this Privacy Policy in a manner that is materially inconsistent with the revised Privacy Policy, without your prior consent.
If you believe that our Privacy Policy does not adequately address your privacy concerns or if you wish to discuss the treatment of your personal information please contact us at 1-876-630-2216
or e-mail us at blackslateholdings@gmail.com