Digital Media Intern

The Digital Media Interns will assist in developing, implementing, and monitoring digital media content to enhance UNDP's visibility and engagement in Sierra Leone Duties and Responsibilities: - Support the development and implementation of UNDP Sierra Leone’s Communications strategy, Annual Communications Plan and Key Performance Indicators - Support content development for stories, op-eds, talking points, press releases and/or social media posts - Assist team members in synthesizing information from UNDP programme teams - Support in preparing presentations, decks, pitches, toolkits and process documents. - Assist in maintaining dashboards, meeting calendars for the Communications Unit - Support the team with curation and coordination of events, campaigns, workshops, highlighting the work of UNDP and building relationships within the ecosystem - Build communication materials for events and help spread awareness through relevant channels. Technical/Functional Competences: - Writing and Editing skills - Ability to analyze large sets of data and reports and synthesize complex issues. - Create excel spreadsheets and dashboards - Familiarity with website management, social media platform, branding and fostering private sector partnerships - Experience of creating content across a variety of medium - Demonstrated ability to plan and curate campaigns, events and workshops - Excellent oral and written communication skills - Strong Powerpoint, Word and Excel skills - Basic research and analysis - Generates new ideas and approaches, researches best practices and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things. - Documents and analyses innovative strategies and new approaches for publishing content, fostering partnerships and launching campaigns. Education: - Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher); - Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor’s level or equivalent); - Have graduated with a university degree and, if selected, must start the internship within one-year of graduation. Experience: - Currently enrolled in a relevant undergraduate programme’s such as communications, Multimedia Arts, Marketing, or a related field. - Strong written and verbal communication skills in English language. - Familiarity with social media platforms and digital communication tools. - Creative thinking and ability to contribute innovative ideas. - Basic knowledge of public relations and media relations principles. - Proficient in Microsoft Office suite. - Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment. - Familiarity with development issues and knowledge of UNDP’s work is a plus.