Public Relations Intern

**Funding Societies | Modalku** is the largest SME digital financing platform in Southeast Asia, expanding into a leading SME neobank. We are licensed and registered in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and operating in Vietnam, and backed by Sequoia India, Softbank Vision Fund and SMBC bank amongst many others. Funding Societies | Modalku provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is funded by individual and institutional investors.

**And here at Funding Societies | Modalku we live by our core values**:

- **Grow Relentlessly**: Strive to become our best, most authentic selves.
- **Enable Teamwork, Disable Politics**:Only by forging togetherness, we help each other succeed.
- **Test Measure Act**: Stay curious and reinvent ourselves, through innovation and experimentation.
- **Focus on Impact**:Create impact through bias for action and tangible results.
- **Serve with Obsession**: Build win-win relationships for the long-term by having a customer obsession.

**What will you do**:

- Fully support the company's PR strategy and execute it in different phases.
- Assist in managing public relations activities and materials. This includes assisting in writing press releases, press releases distribution, fact sheet, media profiling, and delivery of hampers during festive seasons.
- Regular compilation of monthly reporting on the result of all stated above activities.
- Analyze campaign performance, identify key learnings and iterate quickly.
- Regularly monitor/track competitors’ movement from public relations perspective to understand and keep updated with industry trends, their marketing/business activities as references and insights for the marketing communications team.
- Manage to respond to media inquiries within their preferred timeline.
- Track spending accordingly for Malaysia’s communications division.
- Assist marketing communications team as and when required.

**Requirements**:
**What we are looking for**:

- Currently pursuing a degree in Public Relations, Mass Communication, Communication, or a related field.
- Proactive, independent, and self-motivated with a keen interest in public relations and communications.
- A team player with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively.
- Good planning, organizational, and time management skills with attention to detail and the ability to meet deadlines.
- Creative and eager to contribute ideas for public relations campaigns that engage and inform target audiences.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Bahasa Malaysia. Proficiency in Mandarin is an added advantage.
- Willingness to learn and adapt to different communication styles for engaging with various stakeholders.
- Basic proficiency in graphic design, content creation, and editing tools for press releases, media kits, and social media content.
- Enthusiastic about monitoring media coverage, assisting in media relations, and preparing reports to support PR strategies.

**Benefits**
- **Time off**:

- We would love you to take time off to rest and rejuvenate. We offer flexible paid vacations as well as many other observed holidays by country. We also like to have our people take a day off for special days like birthdays and work anniversaries.
- **Flexible Working** - We believe in giving back the control of work & life to our people. We trust our people and love to provide the space to accommodate each and everyone's working style and personal life.
- **Medical Benefits** - We offer health insurance coverage for our employees and dependents. Our people focus on our mission knowing we have their back for their loved ones too.
- **Mental Health and Wellness** - We understand that our team productivity is directly linked to our mental and physical health. Hence we have Wellness Wednesdays and we engage partners to provide well-being coaching. And we have our Great FSMK Workout sessions too to keep everyone healthy and fit
- **Learning & Development** - We believe learning should never end and we support everyone with curated learning programs on our internal learning platform.
- **Tech Support** - We provide a company laptop for our employees and the best possible support for the right equipment/tools to enable high productivity