Outreach/Social Media intern

This unpaid internship is located in the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva. The intern will assist with planning and organizing the Graduate Study Programme, create social media content, conduct media monitoring, and attend press briefings and meetings.

Responsibilities

• Help with planning, organizing, conducting, and evaluating the 65th Graduate Study Programme, including participant selection, correspondence, document preparation, statistical analyses, and feedback analysis.
• Create social media content for @UNGeneva channels using Adobe PremierPro, Canva, Trello, and other platforms.
• Conduct regular analysis of @UNGeneva performance on social media.
• Contribute to daily media monitoring of Swiss newspapers in French, German, Italian, and English.
• Attend biweekly press briefings.
• Attend meetings of human rights treaty bodies, the Human Rights Council, and other major events.
• Carry out any other tasks as requested by the United Nations Information Service.

Requirements

• Be enrolled in, or have completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher); or be enrolled in, or have completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor's level or equivalent).
• No prior work experience is required to apply for the United Nations Internship Programme.
• Field of study closely related to the type of internship applied for is required.
• Applicants must be a student in the final year of the first university degree (bachelor or equivalent), Master’s or Ph.D. Programme or equivalent, or have completed a Bachelor’s, Master’s or PH.D. Programme.
• Fluency in both English and French, oral and written, is required for this position.
• Knowledge of any other UN languages, German, or Italian, is an advantage.

Skills

• Social Media Content Creation
• Media Monitoring
• Event Planning
• Press Briefing Attendance
• Graduate Study Programme Support
• Bilingual Communication French-English

Languages

English, French, German, Italian