Advocacy & Communications Officer – Intern

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

👨‍🎓 Internship

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🗣️ Communications

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IIRR

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1960

🤝 Non-profit

🌾 Agriculture

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Agriculture • Social Impact

IIRR is an international rural development organization that works to empower marginalized rural communities — smallholder farmers, fisherfolk, pastoralists, Indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities — to achieve improved livelihoods and resilience. With a 65-year history, around 300 staff and programs in some 49 countries, IIRR runs integrated initiatives such as Climate Smart Villages and focuses on food systems, agriculture, economic empowerment, financial inclusion, education, health (including WASH and community health), environment and climate change adaptation. The organization emphasizes human-centered design, capacity building, and reaching women, youth and children in rural areas.

📋 Description

• Research and develop content for multi-channel communications platforms to support external communications and PR of the organization • Support copywriting, graphic designing, and curating content for social media channels, website, and blogs to raise visibility on our projects and activities • Help lead branding of the organization by assisting the implementation of social media campaigns across multiple platforms • Support external communications to expand the organization's online reach by liaising with local, national, and international journalists to support development and execution of media coverage • Support documentation, including video and photography

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in any discipline (completed prior to internship start date) • Well-organized, reliable, and self-motivated • Helpful and responsive (e.g., when dealing with ad-hoc requests for providing support) • Resourceful, creative, who enjoys problem-solving • Impeccable writing skills with meticulous attention to detail and organizational skills • Curiosity, creativity, and fearlessness in contributing new and bold ideas • Exceptional interpersonal skills • Ability to meet deadlines and effectively multi-task • A willingness to fail fast and forward while respecting and valuing input from a global and diverse team • Ability and willingness to work in a startup culture that may require fluidity in roles from week to week • Intermediate experience with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Applications • Responsive to manager’s feedback, ability to take direction and execute work independently with minimal oversight in a remote working environment • Passionate about making a positive difference

🏖️ Benefits

• Unpaid internship but available for class credits