Do you want to practice your communication skills to a worldwide audience within the humanitarian sector? Then you might be our new intern for the Spring semester 2025.
Who are we?
You will be part of DRC’s internal communications team, where we work with a broad range of communication activities, e.g. writing case stories targeted our global workforce, creating graphics or videos for internal campaigns, assisting at global events and we are responsible for our global intranet. Our communication products reflect all of DRC’s work, and we have close collaboration with colleagues in both headquarters, regions and countries.
About the internship
As an intern in Internal Communications, you will have a close cooperation with our colleagues in the support offices in Headquarters and in the organisation’s five core humanitarian sectors: Protection, Economic Recovery, Humanitarian Disarmament & Peacebuilding, Shelter & Settlements, Camp Coordination & Camp Management.
Hence you will get the opportunity to become acquainted with the work within an international NGO and how to communicate effectively about it. You will be given the possibility to work independently with different tasks that are related to your line of study and will participate in one week of induction with the opportunity to gain a better understanding of the different teams and departments within DRC.
DRC offers the opportunity to:
You will be supporting colleagues while gaining valuable working experience.
Responsibilities
As part of the internal communications team, you will support the dissemination of strategic messaging across the organization with a variety of methods and through different channels. Therefore, we expect you to:
We offer flexibility in the priorities, meaning that you have the possibility to influence the tasks subject to what is relevant for your study programme.
About you
You should be able to work both individually and together with other colleagues. All employees and interns in DRC should master DRC’s core competencies: communicating, taking the lead, collaborating, striving for excellence and demonstrating integrity.
You should be able to meet the following requirements:
You should be pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in communications, Media Relations, Journalism, Development Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Migration studies or other related social science studies. Students with an interest in journalism, video or other communication areas will have an advantage.
We offer
Contract length: 4-6 months subject to study requirements and further dialogue.
Workplace: DRC Headquarters located Borgergade 10, Copenhagen.
Start date: Ideally end of January/beginning of February 2025. We can be flexible on the start Working hours: Approximately 32 hours per week, subject to study requirements and further dialogue. We offer flexibility when you have study obligations next to the internship.
The internship is not paid but we offer:
Please note that if you do not have the right to work in Denmark (through nationality or existing work visa),
you will need to apply for it yourself, should you be selected for the internship. This process can take up to three months from initiating the process. You can read more here.
Application process
All applicants must send a cover letter, an updated CV in English as well as documentation that you are enrolled in a university. If you are applying for more than one internship with DRC, please indicate so in your cover letter. Apply online on our Current Vacancies page at www.drc.ngo.
Closing date for applications: 11th of November 2024. We expect to conduct interviews in week 46 or 47.
Further information
For questions regarding the internship please contact Marianne Smedegaard Hansen, marianne.smedegaard@drc.ngo.
For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website drc.ngo.