BESA Summer Intern 2025

About BESA:  

BESA, the British Educational Suppliers Association, is the only trade association covering the entirety of the UK educational suppliers’ sector. It has a 90-year plus heritage serving this sector, and represents over 400 educational suppliers in the UK, including manufacturers and distributors of equipment, materials, books, consumables, furniture, technology, ICT hardware and digital-content related services to the education market. Combined, they generate upwards of £2 billion of revenue each year.  

  We champion the UK’s trusted, quality educational suppliers – BESA 

BESA offers unparalleled support, research, events and advice on both UK and International markets, and the future of the education suppliers’ industry.  BESA founded the BETT Show in 1985, the Education Show in 1991 and the Education World Forum in 2011 and continues today to support and innovate in the sector. 

About the role: 

Reporting lines:  Reports to Events Manager 

Contract: July & August 2025 (exact dates TBC) 

Hours:  Full time (35hrs per week), Mon-Fri  

Salary: £13.15 per hour. PAYE (LLW) 

Location: Flexible working – min 4 days per week in Shoreditch office 

Application deadline: 0800 on 04/7/25 

We are a small, committed team working in a fantastic sector, where the work we do can make a real difference to the education of the next generation and beyond.  This is a fantastic opportunity to experience working as part of that high achieving team, across all departments and helping to implement our digital transformation goals. 

The Summer Intern will provide support in our office across our key areas of focus: 

• Membership Services: Assist with data cleansing and input on our new CRM , and providing administrative support to our member services.
• Policy and Research: Admin tasks collating research data.
• Events: Support with data migration of our events and meetings from our booking system to another platform.
• Communications and Marketing: Update our website pages & social media posts
• Operations: Provide back-office support and digitising archive records. 

Estimated start date: Mid July 2025 (flexible) 

Requirements: Must be able to demonstrate the right to work in the UK. Must be available to travel into the Shoreditch office 4 days a week. No holiday permitted during the term of the internship. 

What We’re Looking For: 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.  

• Strong digital and data input skills 

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively. 

• Excellent attention to detail 

Desirable: 

• Knowledge of website management (CMS experience is a plus) and CRMs. 

• Experience or a strong interest in working in the education sector. 

To apply: send CV and covering letter to denise@besa.org.uk