Overview
Assist in designing and implementing marketing strategies, drafting and editing social media content, and conceptualizing visuals for marketing collateral.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in designing and implementing the overall marketing strategy for CIF
- Draft, format, and edit social media content for the social media calendar
- Conduct research on thematic issues
- Assist with planning and producing marketing campaigns across CIF social media channels
- Contribute to internal UN-Habitat publications
- Prepare specific content and materials (documents, reports, strategies) designed for the public, working closely with external partners, in English
- Conceptualize visuals based on ideas from Communications and Project teams to develop graphs, infographics, and graphics
- Design marketing collateral e.g., newsletters, brochure covers, posters, social cards that fit CIF brand guidelines
- Assists with visualizations and updating information material such as web pages
- Ensure that the Brand is always executed in a consistent manner across all marketing collateral
- Design electronic invitations and event related collateral
- Support social media campaigns
- Coordinate the production of short-form videos for use on social media
- Conduct basic research on target audience to inform design work
Required Experience
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.
Qualifications
- Applicants must at the time of application, meet one of the following requirements: a. Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher), b. Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree program (minimum Bachelor's level or equivalent), c. Have graduated with Bachelor's degree, Masters, PhD or equivalent.
- Be computer literate in standard software applications (Microsoft Office Suite).
- Have demonstrated a keen interest in the work of the United Nations and have a personal commitment to the ideals of the Charter.
- Have a demonstrated ability to successfully interact with individuals of different cultural backgrounds and beliefs, which includes a willingness to try and understand and be tolerant of differing opinions and views.
- Preferred areas of study: Bachelor or master's degree in Communications, Arts, Media, Visual Communication, Graphic Design, or any other related fields.
- Strong writing skills especially in developing content for social media, articles and newsletters is required.
- Excellent IT skills, especially with design and graphic software such as Adobe, and Canva is required.
