Social media & communication internship

General

JIPS – the Joint IDP Profiling Service – is an inter-agency service and was set up in 2009. Based in Geneva, JIPS is supervised by a Steering Committee comprised of the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre – Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC-IDMC), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Office of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of IDPs, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Our goal is to promote collaborative responses and solutions for internally displaced persons (IDPs) across the world by equipping governments, humanitarian organisations and development actors with accurate information about IDP situations. These insights are generated from data collected and disaggregated by sex, age, location and diversity in the affected countries that ask for our support. Read more about JIPS: www.jips.org

Job description

The next internship cycle starts February 2014 and lasts 6 months. Purpose The social media & communication intern will support the improvement and implementation of the social media strategy at JIPS, by effectively conveying information to internal and external audiences with social media campaigns. The intern will be part of JIPS and will report to the IM Officer.

How to apply:

The internship is based in the JIPS office in Geneva for a period of 6 months. Desk space, access to relevant programmes and printing facilities will be provided. The internship is unpaid. The intern is responsible for his/her own travel, accommodation, medical insurance, visas, and living expenses.

Start of internship – February 2014.

Please send your CV and cover letter by e-mail to info@jips.org. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

We recommend you to keep your CV to a maximum of two A4 pages in word format and the cover letter to one A4 page. We discourage the use of United Nations’ Application Forms. For more on JIPS and profiling see:www.jips.org and www.parkdatabase.org