Job Opportunity: Media and Communications Intern
Tearfund's is seeking a highly organized and proactive Media and Communications Intern within its Southern and East Africa region to join our team.
Location: Multiple (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique)
Purpose of the Role:
The Media and Communications Intern is responsible for proactively ensuring the supply of stories, information, video, posts, images from the projects and field locations to enable quality reporting, fundraising, mobilising prayer and campaigning and as required, providing policy briefs, analysis for Tearfund's target audience in South Souther & East Africa Region.
Key Responsibilities:
- Creates content for the organisation's corporate communications (internal and external), including writing and distributing corporate communication materials, planning publicity activities, and serving as the organisation's point of contact with the media.
- The post holder is required to support staff and partners to strengthen their capacity for media engagement (Digital and traditional media), internal and external communication and effective advocacy work.
- Contribute immensely towards media, digital, and communication activities, and perform market research and audience analysis
- Develops work plans, individual development plans, and regular reports to the Media, advocacy and Communications Manager
- Support programme partners in media and communications related capacity building and ensuring that this is integrated within programmes
- Supports in identifying potential new strategic media partners for Tearfund in the SEA region and developing strategies for working with them.
- Liaise with active allies to identify and help them to use rare opportunities to drive Tearfund's corporate advocacy issues in various media outlets in SEA region
- Eager and required to adhere to Tearfund's characteristics and values
What you can gain from this internship
- Valuable experience in Marketing, Communications and events management in a wide variety of contexts.
- Learning of how Marketing Strategies are developed, analysed and evolved to achieve objectives.
- Practice at analysing campaign performance data.
- Experience representing a major charity in public forums.
- Experience in creating communications and marketing material.
- An understanding of the work and experience working for a large development NGO.
- A chance to apply your faith to issues of injustice.
- Experience of working as part of a team.
- Enhanced creative and communication skills.
- Enhanced planning, project management and time management skills.
- Experience of working in an office environment.
- Regular meetings with your supervisor and the opportunity to give and receive feedback.
What you will bring
- A knowledge of and passion for the work of Tearfund
- An understanding and/or experience of overseas placements
- Some experience of events organisation
- Some experience of social media channels, particularly Facebook and Instagram
- An interest and/or experience in Marketing and developing messaging to mobilise an audience
Does this sound like the perfect role for you?
We'd love to hear from you!
Note: This is a fixed-term contract for a period of 1 year.
All applicants must be committed to Tearfund's Christian beliefs.
The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding issues. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.
