View Vacancy - Communications Intern

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Job Category

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Policy & Political roles)

Job Subcategory

Communications, Press and Media

Job Description (Roles and Responsibilities)

Assist the Communications Team in their Media, Public Relations and Project work.

Community manager: provide content and help manage the Embassy social media accounts in Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Write articles for the web and keep the website http://gov.uk/world/uruguay up to date.

Assist the team in events organised by the Embassy including invite design, photography, videorecording and editing.

Reply to inquiries from the public send to our general email account.

Daily monitoring of press.

Updating journalists database.

Filing of digital and paper documents and photographs

Essential qualifications, skills and experience

At least 3rd year student in Communications or recently graduated.

Good knowledge of social media, photography and video editing programmes.

Responsible, committed to the job. Sociable, able to interact and collaborate with different Embassy teams.

Works well under pressure and against deadlines.

Desirable qualifications, skills and experience

Graphic Design skills.

Good knowledge of world affairs and Uruguay affairs, interest in UK.

Application deadline

16 February 2018

Type of Position

Intern

Region

Latin America and Spanish speaking Caribbean

Country/Territory

Uruguay

Location (City)

Montevideo

Type of Post

British Embassy

Number of vacancies

Salary Currency

UYU

Stipend / Allowance

5,380 UYU

Start Date

5 March 2018

Other benefits and conditions of employment

Constant guidance from Head of Communication.

Teleconferences and e-learning about running official social media channels and digital campaigns

Additional information

Working Patters:

Part-time

Mondays to Thursdays 13:30 to 17:30

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This opportunity is closed to applications.