Business Development Intern

Stonelight Project is a small nonprofit with 29 staff and about 150 regular volunteers.

The internship

The Business Development Team needs interns to build lead lists, reach out over LinkedIn, email and phone, and book demos for senior sales staff. Remote, open to candidates across the UK. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

Responsibilities

• Prepare simple pitch decks and one-page proposals in Google Slides
• Share feedback from prospects with the product and marketing teams
• Build lead lists of target companies and decision makers using LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Apollo
• Follow up with leads who have gone quiet, using approved email sequences
• Join demo calls as note taker and send the summary to the prospect afterwards
• Draft email templates for different customer segments and test them
• Track daily and weekly targets in a shared sheet
• Identify possible partners such as agencies, colleges or resellers and list them with contact details

Who can apply

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2028
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Available for the full internship period
• Laptop, headset with mic and a quiet place to take calls
• Self-motivated and okay with targets. Some weeks will be slow, and that is normal
• Comfortable making 30 or more calls a day
• Basic MS Excel or Google Sheets skills
• Able to take rejection without taking it personally

What you get out of it

• How to use a CRM properly, which most fresh graduates never learn
• Performance-based incentives on top of the stipend
• You will own your own pipeline numbers by the second month

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: £940 to £1,300 pcm

What we offer

• Reference on completion
• Access to online training
• Laptop provided

You must have the right to work in the UK.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Feb 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Stonelight Project.