Student Assistant - Guangzhou, Trade Council

As a Danish Trade Council (TC) China Student Assistant based at the Royal Danish Consulate General in Guangzhou, you will be working closely with the entire Trade Council China team with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Taipei while also covering Hong Kong. With our team-organized structure, The Trade Council China assist with all kinds of services promoting Danish commercial interests across the vast Chinese market.

As a TC China Student Assistant, you will be involved in different aspects of the services we provide to Danish companies with a particular focus on South China. This includes delivering input to initial fact finding and market research, helping with partner identification and legal and tax issues. We help Danish companies promote their sales, identifying the right partners, sourcing and/or moving and protecting their production to China while providing advice on supply chain de-risking and due diligence.

You will also assist the TC team’s commercial advisors focusing mainly on promoting Danish commercial interests within its main strategic strongholds: food/agriculture, and water/environment.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Providing high quality background information for tasks related to the Trade Council of Denmark
• Contribute to the TC team’s strategic planning, as well as tasks related to global public affairs and market research
• Prepare and carry out visit programs by companies and authorities
• Translation tasks
• Communication tasks for the Trade Council China’s media platforms and customers, and assisting with other media and public diplomacy related activities
• Miscellaneous tasks.

You will be asked to commit to 20 working hours per week for preferably no less than 12 months starting from 1 August or as soon as possible thereafter. The timing of the actual, hourly working schedule will be planned together with the selected candidate.
 
Salary: 2.000 RMB per month.

Preferred Qualifications
Applicants with the following qualifications will be given preference:

• Currently enrolled in a relevant BA or MA programme with a major in wider commercial studies; a sector-specific study relevant to TC China’s strategic commercial focus areas; international relations/English, or related areas
• Chinese natural speaker, and excellent command of written English is a must
• Independent, responsible and creative, and ability to teamwork in a dynamic and target-focused environment
• Good organizer of work and data, basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• In addition, knowledge and experience work with commercially related activities, and sector knowledge within food/agriculture and/or water/environment, and
• Good communication skills, including on social media, and basic knowledge about graphic design to make posters/invitations/backdrops would be assets

Application
To apply for the position, please send your application (cover letter, CV, proof of enrollment in higher-education, most recent exam results overview, and 1-3 references (including place of study/company, name of contact person and e-mail) in English to: [email protected] with the subject line: Application: Student Assistant no later than 26 April 2026.

For any questions regarding the position, e-mail: [email protected].

Important information
To be considered for this job, candidates are required to present a clean criminal record and must pass security clearance by the Danish authorities.