About the role

  • Communications Intern providing administrative support to IRAP's Communications Department. Develops and disseminates content, conducts research, and creates media advocacy materials.

Responsibilities

  • Provide administrative and programmatic support to IRAP’s Communications Department
  • Support the design, content development, and distribution of new legal information resources (text and multimedia)
  • Work with subject matter experts to maintain and update legal information resources in a variety of formats
  • Support backend updates, including UX/UI design and information architecture of the Legal Information website
  • Help with the creation and implementation of internal systems to streamline workflows
  • Coordinate with partners for content dissemination
  • Conduct storytelling research about displaced people
  • Create original written and visual content for IRAP’s social media, web, email marketing, and digital advertising platforms
  • Research target journalists and outlets in support of media advocacy efforts
  • Design original communications campaigns and assist with partner communications campaigns
  • Organize and compile accurate data in the contact and communications databases

Requirements

  • Must be enrolled in or within one year of graduation from an undergraduate institution
  • At least two years of undergraduate class work or equivalent work experience must be completed prior to the start of the internship
  • Experience developing social media content for organizations preferred
  • Experience developing communications campaigns preferred
  • Passion for upholding and advancing the rights of displaced people
  • Organized, motivated, and collaborative; able to balance multiple priorities; strong time management skills
  • Strong research, writing, and analytical skills
  • Ability to turn complex information into easy-to-understand resources
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Strong graphic design skills
  • Sensitivity to client empowerment and to working with clients of all backgrounds, including LGBTQIA+ clients, survivors of trauma, and other vulnerable populations
  • Excellent English oral and written skills; spoken and written proficiency in a non-English language, particularly Spanish, Arabic, Dari/Farsi, Pashto, French, Portuguese, Haitian Kreyol, or Russian is preferred
  • Excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and/or Canva
  • Word processing knowledge required; knowledge of WordPress, Google Workspace, Quorum, and/or Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a plus
  • This internship requires a work authorization in the United States
  • This internship may require occasional travel to the NYC office

Benefits

  • Internship can be paid or non-compensated for academic credit
  • Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities

Job title

Communications Summer Intern

Job type

Experience level

Entry level

Salary

$17 per hour

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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