Communications Support Intern

Reports to: Senior Programme Officer – Social and Economic Justice

Role Purpose

To provide effective and efficient communications support to the Fostering Gender-just Recoveries (FGR) project and the country programme under supervision of the Christian Aid’s Senior Programme Officer- Social and Economic Justice. The  Communications Intern will also work across all country programme projects through undertaking routine information management duties, ensuring maintenance of quality and timely outputs that are compliant with Christian Aid communications
guidelines and procedures, while being agile enough to support key programming functions.

To undergo a stage by stage supervised on the job learnership programme that will enable the incumbent to provide communications and information functions as will be needed.

Key Outcomes

• Projects reporting & Data Management
• Working on storyboarding and developing content as well as engaging and creative social media and awareness-raising campaigns.
• Monitoring growth across social media platforms and promotion of social media platforms;
• Photographing/ filming and editing visual content that documents project activities;
• Improving communication , creating partnerships and maintaining good public relations with teams internally and with external partners
• Coordinating social media, intranet page updates and newsletter material with staff across the country programme
• Country programme visibility and branding

Relationships.

Liaising with external, suppliers, service providers and regulatory authorities as will be directed.

Liaising with internal stakeholders and colleagues at all levels to achieve role objectives and purpose.

Working within the network of the country projects and

Decision Making

The ability to make day to day decisions that assist the administration and the smooth running of the workgroup.

Analytical Skills

Ability to apply logical thinking and common sense to routine tasks and finding solutions to day to day issues.

Development of Self

Continuously look for opportunities for self-development. Give and receive honest feedback in a timely manner.

Person Specification

Applied skills knowledge and expertise

Essential

• Recent Degree or Diploma in Communications, Media, Journalism and Public Relations.
• Possess excellent writing skills.
• Have multimedia skills in audio and video editing.
• Written and spoken ability of English and any local languages (Shona, IsiNdebele, Tonga, Nambiya e.t.c).
• Must exercise good communication skills to both internal and external clients.
• Self-motivated, focused and persistent.

Digital/IT Competences required

• Word, Excel, Power point, KOBO - Advance
• Internet based collaborations, tools and video calling – Advanced