INTERN - PUBLIC INFORMATION - UN PHOTO

Overview

Internship opportunity with UN Photo to contribute to daily activities' coverage, digital retouching of images, and basic captioning. The intern will be trained on a DAM platform for uploading and archiving photographs.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the daily activities’ coverage and digital retouching of current coverage and archival images of the United Nations meetings.
• Perform basic captioning of current coverage.
• Upload and archive photographs along with relevant embedded metadata for publishing on the UN Photo website using a DAM platform (Orange Logic).
• Assist with Social Media accounts.
• Assist with other tasks as assigned.

Required Experience

Applicants to the UN Internship Programme are not required to have professional work experience. A field of study that is closely related to the type of internship that you are applying for is required. Applicants should have good knowledge of standard software applications, especially MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Teams. Must be computer literate in standard word processing and spreadsheets software applications. Have a demonstrated keen interest in the work of the United Nations and have a personal commitment to the ideals of the Charter; and have a demonstrated ability to successfully interact with individuals of different cultural backgrounds and beliefs, which include willingness to try and understand and be tolerant of differing opinions and views.

Qualifications

• Be enrolled in or have completed a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher);
• Be enrolled in or have completed the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor’s level or equivalent).

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