Duties and Responsibilities

Under the overall guidance of the Head of Communications, the internship will provide the successful candidate with a unique opportunity to work closely with team members and learn about how the UN system operates at the country level. Among others, the intern will: actively engage in UN communication and advocacy initiatives; have hands-on experience of various UN communications products, videos, documents and articles; learn about the functions and roles of a wide range of UN agencies; gain insight into the country programming process of the UN; become familiar with how the UN interacts with counterparts.

The Communications Intern will be responsible for providing support to RCO in its mandate to advance its objectives for communications and advocacy, which includes: • Support the development of weekly social media calendar and draft posts for UN China’s Chinese and international social media platforms. • Support and provide inputs to social media campaigns for key office events or international days. • Participate in updating and providing inputs to UN China website and other communications productions, including creating and recording videos, podcasts, articles, social media posts etc. • Support the development, translation and editing of communications materials, including op-eds, website content, press releases, social media posts, speeches, and other media/social media or related articles in English and Chinese. • Facilitate on-site communications activity set-up, including podcast recording, press conferences, video shooting etc. • Support team members in coordinating inter-agency and high-level meetings or events organized through the UN Communications Group. • Implement daily administrative and logistical tasks related to communications work. • Complete other ad hoc tasks requested by the office and/or supervisor.

Qualifications/special skills

Applicants must meet one of the following requirements: (a) be enrolled in, or have completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher); (b) be enrolled in, or have completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor’s degree or equivalent). Applicants to the UN Internship Programme are not required to have professional work experience. However, a field of study that is closely related to the type of internship that you are applying for is required. Applicants must have good knowledge of standard software applications, especially MS Word, MS PowerPoint. Ability to draft news articles and/or social media posts in desirable.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. Fluency in spoken and written English and Chinese is required for the internship. Knowledge of an additional official UN language is an advantage.