The People & Culture team is looking for a People and Culture Officer Intern to assist the Office Management Team with the daily operations as of October 2025. Do you like to engage with your colleagues, be proactive and take part in the organization of events? Do you want to gain experience in office management? Do you have lots of ideas and want to create new events?
If so, this internship is made for you! This position is full of challenging activities to keep you and all your colleagues engaged.
About us:
We change the lives of millions of students and leave the world a bit brighter than we found it. Every minute 100 students around the world trust our platforms (e.g., mastersportal.com) to find their best matching education for free. At the same time, we help educators diversify their (international) student population and reduce dropouts.
With headquarters in Eindhoven and offices in Romania, the United States, Mexico, and Australia, Studyportals is the leading global online education choice platform. Listing more than 245,000 undergraduate, postgraduate, distance learning and preparation programmes, we help students around the world explore study programmes and make an informed choice.
With forty different nationalities among the 200+ people working at Studyportals, we are an international bunch of people. Eager to learn and serious about fun. Want to know more?
Your challenge:
During your internship in the office management team, you will learn how to create, prepare, and execute an event with the main goal of improving your colleague's experiences at Studyportals.
You will welcome and help your colleagues in their daily work in the office.
You will be strongly encouraged to come up with and develop your own ideas and initiatives. You will get the opportunity to impact the vibes at Studyportals.
Some of your daily tasks:
- Participate in daily office management tasks to ensure a great employee experience at Studyportals.
- Together with our Office Management Team you will make sure the office is running smoothly.
- Take part in organising events & activities for your fellow Superheroes, because you are serious about fun.
- Lead some small activities in the office to improve your colleague's happiness and keep them engaged.
- Facilitate the connections between colleagues from different departments to encourage people to get to know each other.
- Bring new ideas to realisation to improve daily engagement in the office.
- Assist with onboarding and offboarding of our Superheroes.
Requirements
- Currently in the Netherlands as you need to be present at our Eindhoven office to ensure the smooth flow of processes.
- Currently studying or graduate a MBO or HBO in Office/Facility Management, Hospitality, Tourism, Event Management or related, or you are looking for experience in those fields.
- Available 4-5 days a week for at least 5 months.
- Are proficient in English and have great English writing skills (no Dutch required).
- Proactive and not afraid to suggest new ideas.
- Communicative – you will have to interact with colleagues and managers from other departments regularly.
- Have some experience with creating fun games, events and parties.
- Flexible and resilient with the ability to handle ad hoc requests.
- Independent, reliable, highly motivated and trustworthy.
- Creative – it would be a big plus if you were able to design small posters, document covers, event material and fill them with attractive content.
Benefits
- Monthly allowance of 600 EUR.
- A full-time internship starting October for at least 5 to 6 months
- Reimbursement of your travel-related costs (if more than 10 km).
- The ideal chance to dive deep into the realm of Employee Engagement, Office Management and Event Planning.
- A flat hierarchy, our Office Manager will guide you throughout your internship.
- Gaining knowledge, training, and mentoring from experts in the field of HR and Office Management, encouragement of personal ideas and realization of personal projects for the duration of the internship.
- Opportunity to acquire work experience in a highly motivated international team (currently employing 39 different nationalities) at a fast-growing company located in the vibrant Strijp-S in the centre of Eindhoven, 10 minutes from the central station, check it out here!
- A company environment that is serious about having fun with almost everything we do, including regular team events and a wide range of games and activities during lunchtime or after work.
- The opportunity to make our world a little better by increasing international access to education and be at the core of a study choice giant that the world education market has been desperately waiting for.
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