Job Title: Communications Intern
Organisation:
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Uganda
Reports to: Regional
Program Manager -North
Program Manager -North
About US:
The Institute for
Social Transformation (IST) is a non-governmental organization that promotes a
more just and inclusive approach to development in Eastern Africa. IST’s
thematic focus areas are transformative leadership and learning, and
transformational gender relations and economic empowerment. The Institute does
training of individuals, institutions, and communities to enable them to
initiate, and sustain change processes. Local knowledge and experience on the
root causes of poverty, gender inequality and poor leadership play a key role
in providing information on actions to be undertaken. Our work is based on the
philosophy of Paulo Freire. The essence of the approach centers on the ability
of groups and individuals to read their reality from the perspective of the
root causes of their problems and then to take control to change their lives
for the better.
Social Transformation (IST) is a non-governmental organization that promotes a
more just and inclusive approach to development in Eastern Africa. IST’s
thematic focus areas are transformative leadership and learning, and
transformational gender relations and economic empowerment. The Institute does
training of individuals, institutions, and communities to enable them to
initiate, and sustain change processes. Local knowledge and experience on the
root causes of poverty, gender inequality and poor leadership play a key role
in providing information on actions to be undertaken. Our work is based on the
philosophy of Paulo Freire. The essence of the approach centers on the ability
of groups and individuals to read their reality from the perspective of the
root causes of their problems and then to take control to change their lives
for the better.
Job Summary: The Communications Intern should be a
tech-savvy, creative, and globally minded communications officer to join our
growing organization’s team. Previous experience in online communications at an
organization and take part in amplifying women’s and youth voices and power in
promoting Gender equality across the globe.
tech-savvy, creative, and globally minded communications officer to join our
growing organization’s team. Previous experience in online communications at an
organization and take part in amplifying women’s and youth voices and power in
promoting Gender equality across the globe.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- The Communications Intern will take the lead in online content
creation and social media management. - Manage the development and implementation of Communication strategy;
social media strategy, including the development, curation, and nearly
around-the-clock posting of engaging, thoughtful, and powerful content on
our social media channels (currently Facebook, Twitter and YouTube). - The incumbent will also contribute to content development for our
website, development of quarterly newsletter. Your role will include
maintaining and strengthening our web interactions with partners, donors,
community members, and the broader public. You would also help us grow our
audience, strengthen our engagement with them and think through new
strategies and next steps. - In this role, you would be able to work both remotely and physically
present at events in collaboration with the team, and sometimes field
travels.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Fluent in social media and online content creation; comfortable with
diverse analytic and aggregation platforms; has basic graphic design
skills. - Good writing skills
- Keen interest in women’s rights, social justice and related issues.
- Collaborative and able to work dynamically and diligently without
direct supervision - Results-oriented, interesting in learning and recommending new
approaches or tech solutions. - Women and PWDs are encouraged to apply.
- Age: 26 years and
below
How to Apply:
All candidates
should email their applications to [email protected] and copy [email protected]
should email their applications to [email protected] and copy [email protected]
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