JOB ADVERTISEMENT – Visual and Digital Communications Intern

SCI employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3:  the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE: 

This role is critical for our community engagement and to ensure that affected communities  understand our services and activities. The Visual and Digital Communications Intern is contributing to implementation of communications strategy and is responsible for the active presence of Save the Children Türkiye across digital platforms and social media. The post holder will also work on development graphic design materials.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

The Visual and Digital Communications Intern is responsible for collaboration with program teams in implementation of activities aligned with the communications, advocacy and campaign strategies, media engagement plans, digital and social media strategies.

Reports to: ACCM Manager

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Support Save the Children Türkiye Country Office (TCO) campaign efforts through raising public awareness on the education, humanitarian needs, displacement and other pressing issues facing children post-earthquake in Türkiye through the implementation of social media activities, while providing input to the production of digital materials
• Contribute to production of accurate, clear and consistent information and communications outputs that highlight children’s situation and Save the Children’s work in Türkiye, including personal stories, videos, graphics or illustrations, etc.
• Support the development of a social media plan as well as production of multimedia materials, website content and other digital work while using analytics to ensure all internal KPIs are met
• Use social media platforms for information dissemination, outreach and promotion of activities while enhancing the acceptance of SCI TCO across the country with our targeted audiences
• Coordinate with colleagues from different departments in communicating the program evidence, best practice and achievements as well as planning of digital component for SCI Türkiye projects
• Develop and design graphic design products for print and digital
• Support in the identification of influencers and other major social media content creators for collaboration and the promotion of Save the Children TCO and our activities
• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

Output expectations:

• Coordinating the messaging and posts for the social media platforms to ensure affected communities understand how and where to get Save the Children support
• Compiling relevant information, helping to create educational materials, checking quality of videos and images, proof-reading, translating and editing of documents, supporting outputs etc.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• University degree or equivalent experience in graphic design, journalism, media, communications or similar discipline
• Fluency in both spoken and written Turkish and English to provide outputs for a wide range of different audiences.
• One year of professional experience in communications, multimedia, journalism, visual and digital or traditional media or external communications work
• Knowledge of graphic design and/or video editing software
• Can produce accurate, clear and consistent information and communication outputs relating to both program support and humanitarian situation
• Proven ability to work with communities and partners to gather content on the humanitarian situation and on programs.
• Experience and understanding of the situation in Türkiye, including the sensitivities
• High level of spoken and written Arabic is highly desired.
• Prior knowledge of social media management platforms such as Hootsuite, Sprout Social etc. is highly desired.

Position holder will be based in Gaziantep, Hatay or İstanbul with frequent travels to other cities, therefore legal right to work in Türkiye is necessary at the time of application.