Description
The European Youth Forum is recruiting an intern for 6 months, starting beginning of September, in the Communications Team within the Secretary-General’s Office of the organisation. The internship is full-time and based at the European Youth Forum secretariat in Brussels. The intern will have following tasks:
- The successful candidate will be responsible for developing the online presence of the Youth Forum’s magazine, YO!. This project should
lead to a highly dynamic website, with a strong multimedia content, including, video, audio, imagery and photography. The
Communications Intern will lead this project and, as well as developing the material themselves, they will liaise with young multimedia
volunteer journalists;
- Other ad-hoc communications tasks may include: writing articles and news items for the Youth Forum’s communications channels;
monitoring social media; attending and supporting Youth Forum events and any other needs within the communication team to support the
general advocacy of the Forum.
Eligibility
The ideal candidate should have this profile:
- Academic background or strong equivalent experience (which could be through volunteering/as part of studies) in journalism,
communication, design or other multimedia disciplines;
- Interest in youth policy and knowledge of some basics of the European and global landscape of youth policy;
- Enthusiasm and willingness to learn, be part of a team, as well as lead a project independently;
- Available for six months, full-time, starting in September 2015;
- The selected candidate will preferably be at her/his first internship experience or not have more than one previous internship experience
outside of studies.
Following skills are also required:
- Strong knowledge of web management tools;
- Experience of video and photo editing programmes;
- Knowledge of graphic design programmes;
- Knowledge of and familiarity with key social media channels;
- Capacity to work with people from different social and cultural backgrounds;
- Excellent written and oral skills in English, and preferably in French;
- Computer literate (European Youth Forum uses Mac OS).
Remuneration
An internship has a monthly compensation of EUR 1.595,08 gross paid under the European Youth Forum Collective Bargaining Agreement. Moreover, internship covers 100% of the public transport travel costs within the Brussels region and 60% of the public transport travel costs outside the Brussels region.
Deadline: 02 August 2015
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