Department: IOC Television and Marketing Services
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Contract Type: Internship (12 months)
Activity Level: 100%
Application deadline:
The International Olympic Committee is the guardian of the Olympic Games and the leader of the Olympic Movement.
A truly global organisation, it acts as a catalyst for collaboration between all Olympic stakeholders, including the athletes, the National Olympic Committees, the International Federations, Organising Committees for the Olympic Games, the Worldwide Olympic Partners and Olympic broadcast partners. It also collaborates with public and private authorities including the United Nations and other international organisations.
About the role:
As the Rights Activation Trainee you will be supporting the Rights Activation Team. In doing so you will be supporting the production of guidelines documents, illustrations and training material. Additionally, you will be helping with Rights Activation activities and processes as agreed with Senior Manager, Rights Activation.
Your responsibilities:
Provides assistance and knowledge and helps the Rights Activation Team with:
* Support the production of commercial Guidelines by creating clear and appealing illustrations and supporting on the formatting.
* Support the creation of compelling training presentations for commercial stakeholders.
* Ensure the day-to-day content management of the RA SharePoint site and approval platform.
* Support the RA Team on Dakar 2026 and LA28 preparations.
* Manage the approval platform on-boarding process.
* Support the RA Team on approvals and servicing.
* Other projects as they relate to Rights Activation and/or TMS.
Generally, lends assistance to colleagues when priorities and emergencies dictate.
Minimum Qualifications:
* University qualification (ideally in business/marketing), first work experience a plus.
* Fluent in English.
* Strong capacity to create visually appealing illustrations and presentations.
* Strong knowledge of document editing tools (familiarity with Affinity is an asset) and document formatting.
* Complete familiarity with IT office software, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
* Familiarity with teamwork, in terms of both managing the flow of files and communicating with colleagues.
* Knowledge of the world of sport business, sponsorship and/or media rights.
The successful candidate will be equipped with the following:
* Ability to anticipate problems and propose solutions.
* Autonomy, sense of organisation and priorities.
* Good ability to manage stressful situations and handle the unexpected.
* Accuracy, speed and reliability when executing tasks.
* Ability to communicate and deal with people on a daily basis.
* Diplomacy, tact and discretion.
* Keen sense of confidentiality.
* Very good oral and written expression.
* Ability to help generating a working atmosphere where team spirit contributes to improving performances.
* Curiosity with a keen sense of responsibility for all tasks.
* Adaptable with regards to working hours and flexibility.