Communications Intern

The World Food Programme (WFP) Kenya Country Office is hiring vibrant, innovative, and multi-talented students for an internship opportunity in their Communications Unit. This internship is a great chance to acquire practical work experience while contributing to the goal of achieving Zero Hunger.

About WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. WFP’s mission is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works globally to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

Organizational Context

The internship position will be based at the WFP Country Office in Nairobi, Kenya, for a full-time 8-month period. The successful candidate will work within the Communications Unit, supporting various communication specialists – social media, media relations, graphics designers, event management, and multi-media producers.

Job Purpose

The Communications and Media unit requires a strong communications professional to support the team in writing copy for social media posts, scripts for media interviews, supporting film and photography, assisting in producing social media assets for campaigns, and coordinating media monitoring.

Additionally, the intern will help simplify program reports and data into simpler language and formats for public dissemination. This role will contribute to achieving consistency, clarity, and well-written media content, including running a social media campaign in collaboration with the partnerships team.

Key Accountabilities

• – Work with the social media producer to research, curate, and produce content.
• – Take the lead in producing content for Facebook (new account being processed).
• – Produce social media campaign assets, well-written and disseminated on social media channels (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook).
• – Produce at least 3 well-written stories of “Changing Lives in Kenya,” alongside a series of good multimedia content for reports, social media, and the corporate website.
• – Conduct media monitoring – both mainstream and social media, using the corporate listening tool (Brandwatch).
• – Report any potential reputational risk issues in the press and identify content that the Kenya Country Office (KCO) should engage with.
• – Create and maintain a comprehensive media list (Nairobi and County-based).
• – Create and update contact lists of County Communications Officers/Directors from WFP’s priority counties and Communications Officers with key Cooperating Partners.
• – Support content gathering missions, upload content on the multimedia hub (well-captioned and metadata correctly filled, signed consent forms, etc.).

Deliverables

• – Quality social media assets created, published, and enhanced reporting (metrics).
• – Kenya Country Office’s (KCO) stories published on Regional Bureau in Nairobi and HQ platforms.
• – Key persons’ contacts captured in KCO’s databases.

WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, color, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status, physical or mental disability.