Internship Accenture Innovation Awards – Program Management

Job description

Central Team | Program Management, Partnership Management

What is the Accenture Innovation Awards?

The Accenture Innovation Awards is a year-round program with multiple events that aims to connect innovators and to drive innovation together. This year-round program will ultimately culminate in the Innovation Summit. The Innovation Awards team consists of a Central Team and 8 Theme Teams. The Central Team interns are responsible for program management, partnerships, event management and marketing & communications. The Theme Interns are responsible for defining the theme strategy and executing the theme specific tasks, such as innovation scouting and guiding the theme's jury process. Together you will work towards one goal: the biggest innovation program of the Netherlands. Within the whole Innovation Awards team, you are given the freedom to pursue a variety projects.

Start your AIA19 journey within the Central Team!

As an intern in the Central Team you are representing one of the many departments within the Central Team such as: Program Management or Partnerships.

Program Management Intern

As a Program Management intern you will shape the year-round program of the Accenture Innovation Awards. You will work directly with the Management Team to define the strategy and make sure this strategy is being executed by the whole Innovation Awards team. You will keep track of the high-level targets and goals, and make sure that everyone is on the same page. It is important that you can keep an overview of what is happening within both the Central Team and the Theme Teams. If someone has a question they don't know, it is very likely they will ask you for the answer! You will be the link between these various people.

Partnerships Intern

As a Partnerships intern you are responsible for the networking partners of the Accenture Innovation Awards. It is your job to maintain contact with these partners and to find new partners. One of the tasks during your internship is to visit network partners and their events, with the purpose to search for new opportunities. Your main goals are coordination and maintenance of already existing partners and figuring out how we can help our partners achieve great new opportunities, but also find out how Accenture can benefit from collaboration with these network partners. Moreover, you will be coordinating the partnerships across the different Theme Teams. You will determine which partnerships may be interesting for the different themes and support these themes with building and maintaining these partnerships.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

What can we offer you?
• Experience within a large international consultancy firm; in which you can build a broad network consisting of Accenture's employees, partners, and clients;
• A work environment with a focus on your personal development, in which you will get a lot of responsibility;
• The opportunity to be part of a young and vivid team of ambitious interns and leads.
• Partial responsibility for the organization of the Accenture Innovation Awards 2018, in which you get to know world's best innovative start-ups and companies;
• Supervision by a team of experienced consultants and the ability to learn about the project approach of Accenture;
• The possibility to execute a graduation assignment or thesis, with access to the knowledge and expertise of Accenture;
• A fair compensation and a laptop.

Additional information
Period: Preferably 6 months or longer
Hours a week: 32-40 hours
Location: Amsterdam, Gustav Mahlerplein 90
Start date: February 2019
Education: HBO (end phase) or WO (end phase of Bachelor or Master)
Language: Comfortable with working in Dutch and English

Interested?
We are looking forward to meeting you. Apply directly online through the button ‘Apply'. For more information about this vacancy or if you would like to discuss which role is most suitable for you, you can contact Marlouk Mutsaerts at

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