PR Intern

Location: London

Working pattern: Hybrid (3 days in the office, 2 days remote)

Salary: £31,000

interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.

We’ve been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 500,000 customers.

For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.

We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.

Purpose of the role:

In this 10-month placement as a PR Intern, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside ii’s fast-paced and high profile PR team, who are highly respected in the national and trade press.  

In this role, you’ll gain valuable experience within a busy press office in the UK’s second largest investment platform. As well as our role in shaping thought leadership in the investment platform space, and dealing with investment platform issues, you will have the opportunity to work alongside a range of highly regarded media spokespeople in the industry - across the markets, personal finance, pensions, and investment fund space.  

Key responsibilities/what you’ll do:

• Support the PR Manager to promote ii as a business, and its spokespeople in the national, trade, and broadcast media
• Support the PR Manager and wider PR team to identify relevant news stories/angles where there are opportunities for ii
• Draft press releases, which get distributed to the media - covering a wide range of topics across personal finance, pensions, investments, and financial markets
• Collaborate with the PR team on key campaigns to champion retail investment, including pensions awareness
• Find newsworthy angles through analysing ii’s customer data and trends
• Assist with consumer research, drafting surveys and finding media angles within the results
• Monitor regulatory announcements that may be relevant to ii
• Support the PR Manager with media outreach
• Work with ii’s PR agency on reporting to support PR Manager on weekly and monthly PR updates and documents
• Support the PR Manager on hosting press events
• Help collate and pitch customer case studies for the press

Personal attributes:

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• Excellent writing skills
• The ability to think creatively
• The ability to make complex topics easy to understand - both written and verbally 
• A genuine interest in the news agenda, particularly surrounding personal finance, investment platforms – with a keen appetite to learn about these topics
• Confidence in interpreting data, or the desire to learn how to
• A passion for making personal finance and investing more accessible to everyone
• Strong organisation skills and desire to work at a fast-pace, across various projects

Salary: £31,000
Interview dates: April-May 2026
Placement dates: September 2026 to June 2027

Please Note: We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider your application as unsuccessful.

Requirements

To apply for this role, you will need:

• To be eligible to work in the UK
• To be over 18 years old as of 1st September 2026
• To be a 2nd year student in a full-time undergraduate degree with an industry placement year, in a subject relevant to this role
• To have achieved a minimum of 104 UCAS points at A-level (grades BCC) or an equivalent (e.g., BTEC DMM) qualification
• Maths and English GCSE (or equivalent) grades A* to C (new grades 9 to 4)

Find out how many points your qualifications are worth using the UCAS Tariff calculator: www.ucas.com/ucas/tariff-calculator

Benefits

• Group Personal Pension Plan
• Life Assurance and Group Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance – provided by Bupa
• Staff discounts on our investment products
• Personal & well-being fund – supporting your physical and mental wellness
• Retail discounts – savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers
• Voluntary flexible benefits – tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle