Communications and Outreach Intern

Contract

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Background

The UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-2021 embraces the complexity of development and commits the organization to helping countries find faster, more durable solutions to achieve Agenda 2030. Important development trends like urbanization, climate change, and inequality pose significant challenges on our path to achieve the 2030 agenda of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP has begun ideating and incubating several strategic initiatives aimed at ensuring UNDP as ‘fit for purpose’ to deliver a new generation of solutions in line with the challenges the world faces. One such key strategic initiative is the Accelerator Lab Network. UNDP is building the largest and fastest learning global network of Accelerator Labs (91 labs serving 115 countries) embedded within UNDP’s global presence. The new offering builds on the latest thinking from the fields of complexity science, lead user innovation and collective intelligence to accelerate development impact. Read the 2020 Annual Report of the Global Network here UNDP Accelerator Lab India seeks to contract an intern to assist the team in executing end-to-end communication and outreach activities (designing social media collateral as well as producing and editing videos from scratch). In addition to this, the intern will support the team in documenting the campaigns and experiments that it does, along with other communication needs.

Duties and Responsibilities

Main responsibilities: The intern will work under the overall guidance of the UNDP Accelerator Lab team and Communications Team to carry out the following tasks:

• Create engaging social media content, including graphics, Gifs, videos, stories, etc.
• Basic copy editing of blogs and documentation of stories from field experiments
• Generate videos and testimonials from the work on-ground as well as other campaigns
• Write short scripts for videos and testimonials for events and campaigns
• Work with the team to ideate and design communication collaterals
• Coordinate with key stakeholders and partners to capture their inputs in the form of communication products
• Act as liaison officer between the Central communications team and the Accelerator lab team to monitor the overall comms activities (social media calendar planning etc.)
• Any other task as advised by the team

Competencies

• Ability to generate design collaterals and videos with quick turnaround time
• Excellent knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premier, Final Cut and/or other tools used for graphic design or video-production.
• Basic understanding of current affairs and interest in development challenges
• Experience in writing blogs, features, articles would be an asset.
• Good team player and ability to adapt to change in work environment
• Strong sense of collaborative work, excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
• Keen attention to detail;
• Works collaboratively with colleagues to achieve organizational goals;
• Solicits input by genuinely valuing others’ ideas and expertise;

Required Skills and Experience

Applicants to the UNDP internship programme must at the time of application meet one of the following requirements: (a)Be enrolled in a postgraduate degree programme (such as a master’s programme, or higher); (b) Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (such as bachelor’s degree or equivalent); (c) Have recently graduated with a university degree (as defined in (a) and (b) above) and, if selected, must start the internship within one-year of graduation. Candidates with Mass Communication, Multimedia Journalism or Design background are preferred

• Is willing to learn from others; places team agenda before personal agenda;
• Supports and acts in accordance with final group decision, even when such decisions may not entirely reflect own position
• Fluency in English and working language of the duty station.