Communications Internship

This position will manage specific communication activities for the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation (IUCN-Med) in addition to providing administrative and technical implementation support to projects.

In particular, this position will support the IUCN-Med communication team with developing, disseminating, and monitoring performance of content, especially for social media and the corporate website. They will assist also on communication support for projects implemented by the different departments of IUCN-Med, namely, with content creation for social media.

The Position may provide support to other Communications needs for the IUCN-Med office.

The Communications intern will help IUCN-Med supporting institutional and projects’ communication activities including social media content creation for initiatives like the Mediterranean Alliance for Wetlands, NBSoil, Natae, Blue4All, among other projects.

The person will:

• Assist IUCN-Med’s presence on social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) with the development and dissemination of a weekly content program based on corporate and project activities, as well as monthly monitoring of results.
• Support specific campaigns on social media to increase the number of followers and outreach, using infographics, micro-videos, or animated gifs, including identifying and following key influencers.
• Assist the update process of the IUCN/Mediterranean website, reviewing, translating and uploading new content in coordination with all departments of IUCN-Med.
• Support elaboration of social media and web content, such as articles and press releases, of IUCN-Med projects.
• Monitor and moderate comments on social media posts, intervening as appropriate to answer questions and guide the conversation.
• Assisting with day to day administration tasks.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Requirements:

• Advanced Degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Translation, or similar field; The candidate should be enrolled in an education institution in order to sign an internship agreement.
• Background and/or experience working in communication, or any other related field will be an asset;
• Experience using advanced tools for online publishing, including content management systems (such as wordpress), social media analytics and social media authoring tools like SocialFlow, Hootsuite, TweetDeck, etc;
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Spanish. French will be an asset;
• Strong motivation and interpersonal skills; excellent communication;
• Graphic design skills
• Valid work permit within EU.

Source:  https://hrms.iucn.org/iresy/index.cfm?event=vac.show&vacId=10798&lang=en