• Title: Communications intern
• Type of contract: Internship
• Contract duration: 6 months
• Work time: Part-time position (60%)
• Reporting to: Publications and Audio-Visual Officer
• Location: Geneva, Switzerland
• Start date: 01/02/2024
• Application deadline: 21/01/2024

Background

The Global Survivors Fund (“GSF”) was launched in October 2019 by Dr Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, Nobel Peace Prize laureates 2018. Its mission is to enhance access to reparations for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence around the globe, thus responding to a gap long identified by survivors. GSF acts to provide interim reparative measures in situations where states or other parties are unable or unwilling to meet their responsibilities. GSF advocates for duty bearers as well as the international community to develop reparations programmes. It also guides states and civil society by providing expertise and technical support for designing reparations programmes. GSF’s survivor-centric approach is the cornerstone of its work. 

Role Summary

The Communications Intern will support the Communications Unit in producing its Annual Activity Report and will assist the migration of the organisation’s audio-visual and digital assets to a new data management system. The Communications Intern will report to the Publications and Audio-Visual Officer.

Position Responsibilities

 Annual Activity Report

• Assists the Communications Unit members in the organisation and the tracking of all written material necessary to produce the Annual Activity Report
• Liaise with feature authors to provide support in the completion of their piece
• Liaises with GSF team members to ensure all missing texts or data needed for the report are provided
• Assists the Communications Unit with photo selection for the Annual Activity Report
• Helps with the creation of a flat plan
• Keeps project matrix updated throughout the development of the report.

Audio-visual and digital content migration

• Assists the Communications Unit in the migration of content to a new DAM (data asset management system)
• Performs photos selection when necessary
• Ensure adequate metadata (captions, credits, tags, etc) is properly attributed to each photo once migrated to the DAM
• Ensures formal and informed consent has been obtained from the subject of the photograph
• Performs video selection
• Reviews usage for each audio-visual element (public use, internal use)
• Provides support to the wider GSF team during training on how to use the data management system.

General

• Takes ad-hoc projects as delegated by the Communications Unit.

Position Requirements

This internship is part of an academic training program, a professional training program or a socio-professional integration program, and must meet the conditions set by the Conseil de surveillance du marché de l'emploi (CSME).

Other Essential requirements

• Degree in Communication or related field
• Excellent command of English
• Genuine interest in photography and videography
• Genuine interest in the work of Global Survivors Fund.

How to Apply

Please send your CV and cover letter to recruitment@globalsurvivorsfund.org with “Communications intern Application” as email subject, by Sunday 21 January 2024. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

The Global Survivors Fund is committed to diversity, gender balance and inclusion as well as reflecting the diversity of the places where we work and the communities we work with, and will consider applications from qualified professionals from all backgrounds, cultures or beliefs. are. We encourage candidates from regions where GSF works to apply.

GSF operates and enforces multiple safeguarding policies including Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding and Fiscal Integrity.

Please note that for this position candidates must be authorised to work in the country where the position will be based at the moment of the application.

Your Data - If you choose to apply for this position, you will be providing us with your Personal Data, which we will process for the purposes of selecting a candidate for the position only. We will keep the Personal Data you share with us as part of the application process for six months from the deadline for application, after which it will be deleted. Your Personal Data will be accessed only by our HR Staff managing the recruitment process, as well as the members of the selection panel. You have the right to a) ask us for access to your Personal Data and for information about how we process it, b) to ask us to rectify the Personal Data we have on record for you, c) to ask us to delete your Personal Data or restrict its use, and d) to object to our processing of your Personal Data. To exercise these rights, please contact recruitment@globalsurvivorsfund.org . If you have any concerns or complaints about how GSF processes your Personal Data, please submit them to DataProtection@globalsurvivorsfund.org .