STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE

Work Projects

During my internship with Selina Finance I

worked in the partnerships team to

initiate contacts with potential partners

(through calls, email campaigns, LinkedIn

Sales Navigator) and then giving

presentations and onboarding demos.

Also, I tracked partnership data using

UTMs, spreadsheets and Hubspot CRM, and received great guidance and advice from my

manager.

Daily Life

Colleagues at Selina were very friendly and the office was very open, informal and hard-

working. Work systems were organized and there were monthly social events, as well as

after office drinks every now and then.

Megan MacGillivray, New College, Third Year Undergraduate (of a four year course), MBiol in Biological Sciences, Remote working

Work Projects

My main project with SEI was to work on the

weADAPT platform, which is a platform which

aims to support collaboration on climate change

adaptation projects. Within my work for the platform, I carried out a wide range of tasks: Website improvement/maintenance, I began the internship by conducting a stress-test of

the platform, which involved trying to use the platform with no guidance to see if it was

easy to use and how it could be improved. I gave my feedback and saw changes be made in

line with my feedback. The stress-test allowed me to identify that the FAQ page needed

improvement, so I spent some time updating the FAQs and making sure they were linked at

appropriate points throughout the platform. I also worked on maintaining different parts of

the platform which were not well organised. I also worked to redesign some of the web

pages which had a lot of good content but were not clear to the user.

One of my main roles was to run the social media for the duration of my internship. For this,

I did the following: Lined up three posts per day to be posted on twitter, Facebook and

Linkedin, ensuring they were posted at relevant times and highlighted the most important

content at the time; curating posts for any events which were being held (eg. Africa Day);

going through all the posts and tagging the relevant people and institutions in the posts to

increase engagement; creating new posts: wrote >30 social media posts for each platform

to promote the new platform (adaptation at altitude) and scheduled these for the weeks following my internship and creating/editing content: I was responsible for writing 2 content

articles, focusing on nature-based solutions. I helped redraft articles written by other team

members. I wrote an article introduction to nature-based solutions to be posted on the site,

which gives an introduction to NbS for climate change adaptation.

I received a lot of support from the host organisation including: the first few days were

spent meeting the team and familiarizing myself with the platform, which was very useful

for subsequent days. After that, every time I was set a new task I had a call with my

supervisors to thoroughly explain the task. It was easy to know what I should be working on

because of the workplan set out for me, which had all the different tasks that I could work

on. The majority of the communication was done on teams, so it was easy to schedule a

meeting if I needed guidance, or I could just

send a message on the chat function, which

was very easy and quick. The weekly team

meetings were useful to set tasks for the

next week and track progress with the

agenda points.

Daily Life

My internship was remote, meaning I did

all the work from home. I found it important to get into a good routine, which involved

going for a walk in the morning before work started to clear my head and make sure I was

ready for the day. During the workday, I often worked in cafes and other workspaces as

there are fewer distractions than when staying at home. This was really enjoyable as I could

work with some of my friends who were also doing internships. At the end of the day, I