Job Description
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The recruited candidate will work under the direct supervision of the Lead of the Urban Mobility team. Supporting the team’s broad set of activities and projects, the Intern’s principal tasks will be as follows:
- Provide programme support to ACRoS; with a focus on drafting a Communication Strategy and implementing it.
- Assist with ongoing communication with partners, current city members and new membership requests.
- Assist the Communications Assistant in updating tasks on the ACRoS website (WordPress platform), ensuring timely and accurate uploads of news, events, and resources.
- Draft and edit stories, articles, and web features highlighting ACRoS activities, member contributions, and road safety initiatives for publication on the ACRoS website and other communication channels.
- Provide technical support for ongoing activities, such as developing capacity building materials, planning workshop agendas, managing memberships, and desktop research on road safety data and policies
- Developing surveys and questionnaires for Training-Needs-Assessment, impact assessment and feedback.
- Support the improvement and regular update of the ACRoS website, including adding new functionalities, uploading more relevant literature, and drafting road safety-related articles.
- Develop infographics, maps, tables and similar visual content for promotion and dissemination.
- Support staff in literature review, knowledge piece development, written briefs and reports.
- Support the development of an interactive, learning experience on road safety • Any other tasks assigned related to the team’s portfolio
- Provide programme support to Port of Dar es Salaam Trade and Transport Improvement project, with a focus on drafting a Communication Strategy.
Qualifications
Applicants must at the time of application, meet one of the following requirements:
- Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher),
- Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree program (minimum Bachelor’s level or equivalent),
- Have graduated with Bachelor’s degree, Masters, PhD or equivalent. Be computer literate in standard software applications (Microsoft Office Suite).
- Have demonstrated a keen interest in the work of the United Nations and have a personal commitment to the ideals of the Charter.
- Have a demonstrated ability to successfully interact with individuals of different cultural backgrounds and beliefs, which includes a willingness to try and understand and be tolerant of differing opinions and views.
- Preferred areas of study: Urban planning/design, Architecture, Computer Science/Information Technology, Data Science; Environmental Science, Innovation Management; Computer Science, Urban Geography or another field deemed relevant to the subject areas covered by the Programme for the purpose of this internship.
- In addition, successful applicants are expected to have demonstrated ability in one or more areas listed below:
- Sound knowledge and understanding of the road safety global state of the art, global policies, the Safe System Approach, and the Second Decade of Action for Road Safety is required.
- Familiarity using media and communication software such as Adobe Illustrator, Canva, Mailchimp and WordPress Content Management is required as well as understanding of digital content workflows (from drafting to web publishing)
- Strong writing and editing skills, with the ability to draft concise, engaging stories and articles is required.
- Ability to work collaboratively with a communications assistant and wider team, demonstrating initiative and attention to detail is required.
- Ability to develop strong, creative graphic materials, as well as illustrated media content is desirable
- Applicants to the UN Internship Programme are not required to have professional work experience. However, a field of study that is closely related to the type of internship that you are applying 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.
- Do you meet any of the above criteria? If yes, please indicate which one and attach proof to the application. Please note that you will have to provide an official certificate at a later stage.
- Experience in designing communications/information strategies and campaigns is required. Experience in producing and disseminating public information materials, such as press releases, articles and opinion pieces is required.
- Experience in quality assurance, knowledge management, collection and dissemination of lessons learnt of projects on urban mobility and/or energy is desirable.
How to Apply
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