Overview
The intern will support the Library in various tasks related to digitizing and multimedia archival to raise the visibility of ESCAP work among key stakeholders and the public.
Key Responsibilities
- Assisting in the curation, indexing, and contextual enrichment of existing multimedia materials
- Upgrading and enriching existing metadata and metadata schemes for audio-visual records and files to ensure comprehensive searchability
- Assisting in ongoing improvements to, and maintenance of, content management systems, databases, spreadsheets and other organizational tools for improved searching of audio-visual materials
- Processing and/or cataloguing archival collections
- Assisting in database management and tangible and intangible UN media preservation
- Researching people or events covered by a collection to generate richer context and highly accurate descriptions
- Initiating and carrying out other assigned tasks/special projects
Required Experience
Applicants to the UN Internship Programme are not required to have professional work experience.
Qualifications
- be enrolled in, or have completed, a graduate school programme in a library science, audio-visual archives, communications, information science, media studies, journalism, or related field (second university degree or equivalent, or higher)
- be enrolled in, or have completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme in a library science, audio-visual archives, communications, information science, media studies, journalism, or related field (minimum bachelor’s degree or equivalent).
Applicants must have good knowledge of standard software applications, including MS Office, social media and multimedia applications.
