Intern to support Partnerships, Communication and Advocacy section, Kigali Rwanda, 6 months at UNICEF – United Nations Children’s Fund: (Deadline 31 July 2024)

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, the extra mile

UNICEF Rwanda is based in Kigali. It is committed to realizing the rights of all children to help them build a strong foundation and have the best chance of fulfilling their potential.

UNICEF Rwanda is currently coming toward the end point of its Country Programme 2018-2024 and its goal is to improve the health, nutritional status, protection, education, and wellbeing of children, focusing on those who are poor, vulnerable or at risk.

The programme will support the Government of Rwanda to achieve its goals of improving the lives of children and women.

Evidence-driven advocacy and communication plays a pivotal role in UNICEF’s work in Rwanda, to foster change on strategic priorities by influencing and galvanizing decision-makers and other stakeholders to take positive action to advance children’s rights and their development opportunities.

UNICEF’s Communication, Advocacy and Partnerships (CAP) team is tasked with managing the daily communication, advocacy and partnerships needs of the office, in support of programme sections.

One of the section’s main goals is to continue to strengthen UNICEF’s position as a leading voice for children to grow its supporter base through traditional and digital media and state-of-the-art content and engagement strategies, and by building awareness of and trust and affinity with the UNICEF brand in all countries.

This includes mounting advocacy campaigns, engaging with national, regional, and international media, as well as maintaining the country office’s digital communication channels such as social media and the website, and updating the photo and video gallery for internal and external use.

Fostering partnerships that drive results for children through our private sector engagement and other avenues of partnership with all stakeholders is another important area of work for CAP.

To learn more about UNICEF’s work in Rwanda, please visit the country website https://www.unicef.org/rwanda/

How can you make a difference?

The selected candidate for this internship will therefore meaningfully contribute to the above-mentioned goals as a member of the CAP team and be afforded an unparalleled learning experience and initiation into the ways of working and culture of the leading child rights organization in the world.

Specifically, the selected candidate can expect to engage in the following ways:

External Communication and Advocacy vertical:

• Support the creation of public-facing campaigns on the country office’s identified key advocacy priorities such as mental health awareness raising, the learning crisis and climate change, among others.
• Support the country office daily social media messaging by conducting thorough research and literature review of all available data and information sources emanating from UNICEF programmatic interventions in the field and in the boardrooms (system strengthening and upstream policy change work).
• Maintain and regularly update the country office’s photo bank on a platform known as WeShare. This includes collecting photos from field missions, captioning them in a detailed manner as per standard UNICEF guidance and ensuring that all consent forms are securely filed in a safe designated repository (both soft and hard copies).
• Embark on a project to fully digitize consent forms and store them in a secure location on the office’s servers.
• Support in the initiation of a child/youth advisory council/committee that can be periodically consulted for ideas, insights, and inputs when UNICEF organizes events, programmes and/or advocacy that involve children and youth.
• Regularly update the CAP folder on the internal UNICEF collaboration site (SharePoint).
• Support a full updating of the Rwanda Country Office website including translation of select content (not all) from English to Kinyarwanda.
  

Modality: Full-time

Tentative start date: 01 June 2024

Duration: 6 months

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Be enrolled in a university degree or a recent graduate.
• A relevant background in communication and journalism, public relations, development studies, social sciences, political science, or any other field of study suitable to a communication role.
• Experience of having worked in a development context is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of French is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

The technical competencies required for this post are experience in managing social media platforms, web-based applications, as well as a general understanding of communication roles and functions within an organization.

View our competency framework at

https://www.unicef.org/careers/media/1041/file/UNICEF%27s_Competency_Framework.pdf

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse, and on any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

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