Position Overview
This is a fantastic opportunity for an early career Communications Intern/Officer to be based with an NGO in the heart of Madagascar.
Living in the coastal town of Fort Dauphin in the southeast of Madagascar, this role will support the team managing SEED’s media and communication work. The successful candidate will work with both national and international staff to assist on a wide variety of tasks, from supporting with planning and scheduling content across our range of social media platforms, creating digital media for marketing and social media and day-to-day administration tasks. The role is predominantly office based with some ad-hoc travel to our rural projects. The diversity of activities undertaken will provide a wide-ranging experience for an early career communications and media professional who can effectively and efficiently deal with a comprehensive range of tasks related to the complex world of overseas development work.
Title:Â Media and Communications Intern –Â change of title and responsibilities to Media and Communications Officer subject to passing 3-month probationary review.
Location:Â Fort Dauphin, Anosy Region, Madagascar
Commitment:Â 12 months extendable
**Salary:**Voluntary, with stipend contribution to living expenses and £650 contribution to insurance
Duties and responsibilities
Person specification
About the organisation
SEED Madagascar is a British Charity working in partnership with communities in the south east of Madagascar. We integrate high quality community health, rural livelihoods, education infrastructure and conservation programmes to support long term, sustainable change and add to international best practice through research and publication across all of our programmatic areas. We are now looking for entry level officers to work alongside national staff and expand our team.
Interested applicants should send a CV and covering letter in English outlining why they wish to take up this position and how their skills and experience match the requirements in the job description criteria to SEED Madagascar Director of Programmes and Operations, Lisa Bass by email on lisa@seedmadagascar.org
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Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis throughout this period. Candidates will complete an exercise, long-listed applicants will have an initial informal interview with Madagascar based staff and short-listed applicants will then be offered an interview with the London team.
SEED Madagascar actively encourages equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace and aims to create a working environment free of bullying, harassment, victimisation, and unlawful discrimination, where individual differences and the contributions of all staff are recognised and valued.
Tagged as: Madagascar, SEED Madagascar
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