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

Main purpose of job:

Provide video production, graphic design and campaign support to the Press and Public Affairs team for the delivery of communications objectives

Roles and responsibilities

  • Working with the Press Team for the planning and promotion of content
  • Supporting campaign management and optimisation across multiple channels
  • Designing graphic materials and producing short videos for use on digital channels
  • Creation and management of an organised data base of photo and video files.
  • Uploading social media posts and answering basic enquiries on social media
  • Any other tasks reasonably requested by the Head of Communications/ Press Officer
  • Be a recent graduate in media, communications field (graduated within the last 3 years) with excellent organisational skills and the ability to multitask
  • Be computer literate with a high degree of proficiency in the use of MS Word, MS Excel and PowerPoint
  • Video editing, graphics design and photography skills
  • Ability to transform ideas, statistics and concepts into clear visuals and infographics
  • Experience with social media tools like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram
  • Experience with creating content for the web such as blogging or video blogging would be an added advantage.
19 March 2018
Internship
Intern
Africa
Nigeria
Abuja
British High Commission
NGN 136,722
3 April 2018

Learning and development opportunities

  • Online e-learning
  • On the job learning, job shadowing and mentoring
  • Various development workshops
  • Social media training
  • Communications training
  • Website training

Language requirements:

Language: English

Level of language required: Advanced level proficiency in English Language (ability to understand, write and speak English language without any difficulty)

The intern will work for six hours a day, four days (Monday to Thursday) for a fixed term period of 3 months.

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This opportunity is closed to applications.