Overview
The intern will support the IDSF Secretariat with a focus on communications, knowledge management, content development, and coordination. The role involves documenting lessons learned, maintaining information systems, and drafting communications products.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the documentation of lessons learned, good practices, country examples and results from the IDSF portfolio.
- Help maintain and organize the IDSF SharePoint, contact lists, knowledge repositories, meeting folders and other internal information-management systems.
- Support the preparation and formatting of knowledge products, briefing notes, meeting readouts, case studies and publications.
- Assist with tracking knowledge-management outputs, country updates and follow-up actions from IDSF meetings and consultations.
- Draft and edit concise communications products, including website text, newsletter items, social media copy, donor updates, event summaries and internal announcements.
- Support the collection, organization and captioning of visual assets for use in IDSF communications products.
- Assist with website updates and content organization.
- Support the development of PowerPoint presentations, talking points and other visual materials.
- Assist in organizing IDSF meetings, donor consultations, webinars and other events.
- Draft high-quality meeting notes and action points.
- Provide ad hoc administrative and coordination support to the IDSF Secretariat.
Required Experience
- Excellent writing and editing skills, with the ability to adapt tone and level of detail for different audiences.
- Experience or strong interest in communications, knowledge management, public information, international development, forced displacement or humanitarian affairs.
- Experience drafting meeting notes, summaries, web content, newsletters, presentations or other communications products is desirable.
- Familiarity with website content management, SharePoint, Mailchimp, Canva, PowerPoint, Adobe tools or similar communications and design platforms is an asset.
- Some knowledge of internal displacement, durable solutions, UN coordination or development policy would be helpful.
Qualifications
Applicants must be enrolled in a postgraduate degree programme (such as a master’s programme or higher); OR be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (such as a bachelor’s degree or equivalent); OR have recently graduated with a university degree, as defined above, and, if selected, start the internship within one year of graduation; or be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship programme and undertake the internship as part of this programme.
