UNDP Jobs - 105087- Communications Intern

Communications Intern

Location :

Amman, JORDAN

Type of Contract :

Internship

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

08-Mar-22 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

Intern

Duration of Initial Contract :

Six Months

Languages Required :

Arabic English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations largest provider of grant funding for development and is the main body for coordinating UN development assistance. UNDP has over 7,000 staff working throughout a global network of over 136 country offices in every major developing region and its Headquarters in New York. UNDP's purpose is to help developing countries, and countries moving from centrally planned to market economies, build capacities for "sustainable human development" - development that centres on people.
In 2019, UNDP built the world’s largest and fastest learning network on sustainable development challenges thanks to the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany and the Qatar Fund for Development as founding investors, and support from Italy and UNDP core donors.
We are part of UNDP’s global policy teams and country offices. Our 270 Lab team members bring bright, unusual talent into the development sector. 68 percent of us have experience in prototyping; 55 percent can work with citizen generated data; and 29 percent can perform tasks related to artificial intelligence and machine learning.
We are part of UNDP’s drive to be an incubator for the future. To accelerate progress towards the 2030 Agenda, we need to be fast and curious. The Accelerator Labs are designed to close the gap between the current practices of international development in an accelerated pace of change. They model a new capability to make breakthroughs on the future of development: inequality, decarbonization, the 4th industrial revolution and new forms of governance.
To read more about the labs’ network, please refer to https://acceleratorlabs.undp.org/.

Setting and Reporting

Institutional Arrangements

The contractor will report to the heads of exploration, solutions mapping, and experimentation in Accelerator Lab Jordan.
The contractor will work closely with the communications team in the UNDP Country Office.

Duties and Responsibilities

Description of Responsibilities

Accelerator Lab Jordan is looking for a communications intern to support its communications activities. This includes creating communications strategy, knowledge products, supporting blogs writing, arranging media covering, and basic video editing. During the internship period, the intern is expected to deliver the following:

	Expected outputs
1.	Media and communication strategy in accordance with the Accelerator Lab’s Annual Work Plan, taking into account all Accelerator Lab projects till the end of December 2022.
2.	At least 8 stories /articles/ media products on the topics as relevant to the Accelerator Lab, organised under thematic headlines are published on UNDP JO communication channels
3.	At least 30 professional photographs and 10 short videos (less that 30 seconds) for the AccLab team members while carrying out Lab activities
4.	Support organising 3-5 open speaker sessions with partnering organisations.
5.	Support the heads of the Accelerator Lab in drafting 8 blogs and their associated social media posts.
6.	Support in coordinating 2-4 media coverage interviews on radio / newspaper / television.
7.	Create 3-5 knowledge products such as reports / summaries, briefs related to the Accelerator Lab’s work.
8.	Support organizing 3-5 brown bags for the Accelerator Lab’s work.

Competencies

Core Competencies:

Accountability
Creative Problem Solving
Effective Communication
Inclusive Collaboration

Functional Competencies:

Knowledge and a proficient user of Microsoft Office productivity tools;
Online navigation.
Excellent communication skills (written and oral) in Arabic and English are required; ability to write clearly and concisely.

Required Skills and Experience

Applicants to the UNDP internship programme must at the time of application meet one of the following requirements:

Be enrolled in a postgraduate degree programme (such as a master’s programme, or higher);
Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (such as bachelor’s degree or equivalent);
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;
Be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program and undertake the internship as part of this program.

Interested applicants should have:

A bachelor degree in journalism / social sciences / communication / business administration or other related field.
One year of voluntary or paid experience in the field of social media/ website content management/ journalism/ communication / PR or other related fields.
Copywriting, storytelling and content creation skills.
Design skills are an asset.
Excellent fluency in both Arabic and English.

Along with your application, kindly attach:

A sample of previous work in the field of copywriting, storytelling, and/or content creation if any.

A sample of previous work in the field of design and/or basic video editing if any.

Duration of Internship Programme and Working Hours

Internship assignments vary in length according to the academic requirements of the intern, as well as the needs of UNDP. Assignments normally last a minimum of six weeks and a maximum of six months. An internship may last up to nine months if the intern can demonstrate that it will award them an educational credit for a course.
Internship assignments completed as part of national service obligations or a postgraduate professional traineeship program may last up to 12 months.
This Internship is available on full-time basis, five days a week from Sunday to Thursday.

Stipend

Where an intern is not financially supported by any institution or programme, such as a university, government, foundation or scholarship programme, a stipend intended to help cover basic daily expenses related to the internship, such as meals and transportation at the duty station, must be paid by the receiving office.
The monthly amount of the stipend will be determined for each duty station based on the stipend rates published yearly by the OHR Policy and Compensation Unit. The stipend will be paid monthly and part-time internship arrangements are prorated accordingly.
Where an intern is financially supported by an institution, government or third party, UNDP will, subject to the rules of such institution, government or third party, pay the intern the difference, if any, between the external financial support provided and the applicable UNDP stipend.
No other payments of any kind will be made to an intern by the office in connection with an internship agreement.