Content and webcommunications Internship

Looking for an exciting internship? Outdoor Albania can give you a great opportunity to do just that!
We are a young and expanding tour-operator specialising in adventure and responsible travel in Albania. We are looking for an enthusiastic intern to help with our external communications and Internet marketing.

Our products focus on trips into Albanian nature and culture, allowing the traveller to experience the real "off the beaten track" Albania. Apart from a vast range of round trips and cultural tours, we offer year round outdoor activities, such as rafting, hiking, snowshoeing, kayaking and winter sport holidays. We offer teambuilding weekends for groups and companies and the possibility to do online booking and payments of locations all around Albania.

OA currently operates 4 websites: www.outdooralbania.com, www.shkoder-albanian-alps.com, www.travel-tirana.com and www.outdooralbania-association.com.  www.shkoder-albanian-alps.com and www.travel-tirana.com are part of “World hotel link international” and we are proud to be the “local connection” for Albania.The network offers us a big database, frequent newsletters about SEO, news from the industry and connections with similar companies like us worldwide!

Apart from OA as a commercial company, we work closely together with the OA Association. This association undertakes projects promoting sustainable tourism. In the previous year we have fixed a school in Vuno (which we use as base for the OA association in summer in Southern Albania) made hiking trails and we organised a hiking/ activity to the Cave of Pelumbas, in cooperation with the locals.

Work description:

• Keep our websites up to date, add events, add video’s, photos and other relevant information.
• Interview new accommodations and add these to our websites. (with our assistance)
• Write a 2 weekly article for our blog. (promoting OA product and OA projects)
• Write our monthly newsletter for our members. (Adding new event/ trip information and information about the OA association activities)
• Update the website Calendar.
• Organise OA member meetings/ events.
• Assist in text writing for our partner hotel websites.
• Link building/ SEO
• Editing OA promotion materials.
• Fund research for the OA association.

Your work week will be 4 days a week from 9am to 5pm, which will give you plenty of time to discover Albania in your 3 day weekend and to (in case there is place) join the OA activities.

Requirements;

• Fluent in English (written & spoken)
• Currently following a study in Marketing, Communication or Tourism.
• Liking a challenge (you will become part of the OA team, and we expect you to join our weekly meetings, show initiatives and to have a positive working attitude, while being a real asset to our team)
• Experience with SEO.
• Interest for travelling/ new cultures.
• Having a problem-solving attitude.
• Join the OA team for minimum 3 months.

Benefits:

• OA will support you for your return Flight ticket to Albania
• OA will provide a bed in Tirana Backpackers hostel
  
• OA will provide an allowance for food expenses
• OA will give you the possibility to join the OA trips and use the OA equipment such as kayaks, snowshoes etc.

Interested?
Our first available spot in the office is in January.
Please send your CV (with photo) and a covering letter to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
And let us know for how many months you are interested in joining our team!

We look forward to hearing from you!
The OA team!