Communications and Social Media Intern, Children and Young People

About the Role

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Communications and Social Media Intern, Children and Young People to support the Act4Food team on social media channels such as Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter and the Act4Food website. This position will be based in Abuja, Nigeria office and is offered on a 6 months fixed-term contract basis.

Reporting to the Youth Campaigns Coordinator, the intern will support the Act4Food team with communications specifically focusing on social media channels such as Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter and the upkeep of the Act4Food website.

You will be working on the youth led campaign, Act4Food and will be expected to work with young people and create content for this audience in relation to food systems for social media channels and website.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Supporting the Act4Food campaign coordinator to regularly update social media content and the website.
• Working in collaboration with the Communications team to disseminate content (media stories, reports lessons learned, case studies) for Act4Food
• Updating and following a social media plan for all social media channels
• Coordinating with youth leaders to ensure they are represented on the social media channels and website and their stories are showcased appropriately
• Supporting administrative tasks and maintenance of website on behalf of the programme

About you

The ideal candidate will have some experience in developing creative content and ability to manage a website in WordPress

You will possess excellent communication skills, fluent in written and spoken English and able to work in a team environment and work within a fast-paced, multicultural organisation. Candidates with knowledge of another language would be an advantage.

The postholder can be currently studying or completed a Bachelors’ degree in communications, food science or nutrition, International Development or related fields. You will be computer literate in Microsoft office and have excellent ability to Ability to create social media plans and execute them across different networks.

About our Offer

The salary on offer for this role is NGN 150,000 per month (gross salary).

About GAIN

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Due to COVID19, conflict in Ukraine and climate change, malnutrition and hunger have worsened significantly since 2019, reversing a decade of progress. There is growing recognition that our food systems need to change if we are to reverse these trends.

GAIN’s Strategy aims to transform food systems to make healthier diets from sustainable food systems accessible to all people and especially those whose are most vulnerable to shocks. By 2027, we aim to improve the access of 1.5 billion people to nutritionally enhanced staple foods, improve the access of 25 million people to healthier diets, and support positive food system change in 10 countries. This is bold and complex, and the only way to achieve this is to work together with partners including governments, businesses, and civil society at the country and global level. These goals, and the ways of achieving them, build on our twenty-year legacy of transforming people’s lives with improved nutrition through concerted action and effective policy change.

Our Working Culture and Environment

We provide a flexible working environment that includes a combination of home and office working opportunities through our global hybrid working policy. This encourages our staff to have a healthy work-life balance and increases staff motivation, enriches employee wellbeing, and improves performance and productivity.

All of our positions are based in one or more of GAIN’s designated offices as stated on our job advertisements. Successful candidates will be based in one of GAIN’s country offices and must have the existing right to live and work within a reasonably commutable distance of the relevant city / cities in which the role is advertised. Please note, that GAIN does not sponsor working visas and relocations.

GAIN reserves the right to withdraw an offer of employment for candidates who are considered to ineligible under the above conditions during or after the recruitment process.

Applicants must be currently based and have the existing right to live and work in Abuja, Nigeria to be eligible to apply for this position.

This advert closes on 2nd February 2024. Early applications are encouraged. GAIN reserves the right to close this advert early should we receive suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition is committed to equality of opportunity and creating an inclusive environment where diversity is valued. We are keen to reflect the diversity of our society at every level within our organisation and therefore welcome applications from talented and committed people from all backgrounds, representing the diverse societies we operate in.