Global Corporate Affairs Intern in Windsor

Your placement year, a FTSE 100 business, starting September 2026. We have a fantastic opportunity to join us for a 12‑month work placement within Global Corporate Affairs as a Global Corporate Affairs Intern. As our Global Corporate Affairs Intern, you’ll rotate across three teams—Corporate Responsibility, Global Communications and Corporate Affairs—working on the sustainability stories, press moments and reporting that shape how the world sees IHG Hotels & Resorts. You’ll meet senior leaders, build a network across the business, and finish the year with twelve months of substantive experience to take back to university.

What you’ll do:

• Rotate across Corporate Responsibility, Global Communications and Corporate Affairs, gaining a broad view of how a global business communicates and operates.
• Take on real responsibility; managing your own project work, hitting deadlines, and seeing things through to the finish.
• Sharpen your skills; reviewing and proof‑reading copy, working with sustainability data and spotting trends.
• Research best practice in Corporate Responsibility and ESG reporting; and have your input genuinely valued.
• Help produce IHG’s annual Responsible Business Report and our quarterly financial results reporting as a FTSE 100 company.
• Support the Global Communications press office on day‑to‑day media enquiries.
• Draft and proof internal stories, social media posts and other content across internal, external, owner, sustainability and public affairs work.
• Prepare weekly briefings shared across the wider team, including with senior leaders and IHG’s Board.
• Build your network, from our Employee Resource Groups to time with IHG’s Senior Leaders.

What you’ll bring:

• You’re currently studying for a degree in a relevant discipline and need a placement year as part of your course.
• You’re genuinely interested in sustainability, communities, climate change and the environment and you keep an eye on politics and current affairs.
• Corporate communications excites you, the storytelling, the strategy and the audience side of it.
• You’re audience‑aware, with a good feel for different global markets and cultural nuance.
• You’re comfortable with numbers, able to work with data to spot trends and insights.
• Strong written and verbal communication, and you enjoy working as part of a collaborative team.
• You know your way around social media, LinkedIn especially.
• Confident with Microsoft Office 365.

Ready to make your year count? Twelve months. Three teams. One global brand. If you want a placement year that genuinely sets you apart when you go back to uni, this is it.

Benefits:

• We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life, including impressive room discounts across our many properties, recharge days and volunteering days throughout the year.
• Through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace.
• We offer a unique and inclusive culture, where there is always Room for You to belong, grow and make a difference.

Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable laws. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance, always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.