Make Every Woman Count Wants Interns to Advocate for Women’s Rights in Africa
Make Every Woman Count is seeking interns who are motivated and passionate to advocate for women’s rights in Africa and ready to take initiative on new programs with strong knowledge and understanding of social media campaigning.
Deadline: April 28, 2014
Location: Home-based
Organization: Make Every Woman Count
Make Every Woman Count is seeking interns who are motivated and passionate to advocate for women’s rights in Africa and ready to take initiative on new programs with strong knowledge and understanding of social media campaigning. The internship provides an opportunity to be involved in research, writing and analysis, monitoring women’s rights in Africa, administrative work, website and social media management; and significant involvement in our advocacy projects such as our women’s political participation and the African Women’s Decade.
Interns Duties:
Specific internship duties include, but are not limited to:
- Website Daily Updates
- Assist with the preparation and publication of MEWC reports;
- Provide general administrative support
- Monitor blogs, forums and social networks
- Identify and research potential fundraising opportunities
- Work with MEWC team to develop proposals for projects that could attract new funding
- Engage professionally with social media such as Twitter, Facebook,..
- Contribute to MEWC blog and to online outreach and promotion using Facebook and Twitter,…
- Research and develop ways to improve engagement and site traffic
- The intern will also be encouraged to take part in other projects being pursued and implemented within the organization. They will be a very important addition to all of the project teams.
This a great opportunity for anyone who is looking to get involved in Women’s rights in Africa.
Qualifications:
- Highly motivated, undergraduate or recent graduate with a strong interest or background on women related issues or studies in Africa with the ability to keep deadlines and commitments;
- Possess strong research and writing skills
- Be good at writing, proofreading and have strong analytical skills;
- Strong analytical and research skills
- Ability to work independently
- Excellent ability to read, analyse and write documents, articles, etc.
- Good problem-solving and inter-personal skills;
- Able to meet tight deadlines;
- Direct experience working with Social Media Channels (Blogging, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
- Computer proficiency in Windows environment (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); Content Management System (CMS) experience a will be a plus
Application Details:
This internship is unpaid and home-based (which makes it quite flexible as you can work from anywhere around the world).
The internship requires a commitment of a minimum of 16 hours per week, at least 2 full days a week for 3 – 6 months. Priority will be given to those who are felxible to work over the weekend and/or weekdays.
If you are interested in this position, please send your CV and a Cover Letter. Please send a separate cover letter not email. In the cover letter , please detail why you want to intern with MEWC, your internship objectives and career goals via email.
Application Deadlines: The Deadline is Monday 28th April 2014
Starting Date: Monday 5th May 2014