Affirmative Internship in Communications

Job Description

Job no: 584740
Contract type: Internship
Duty Station: Rio de Janeiro
Level: Internship
Location: Brazil
Categories: Communication

Affirmative internship in the Communications area in Rio de Janeiro

This internship selection process aims to encourage the professional integration of university students and professionals from vulnerable groups (including Black, Indigenous, LGBTQI, women, people with disabilities, and others), preferably from low-income families. Only applications that fit the profile of the position will be considered. Candidates will be treated equally regardless of gender and HIV/AIDS status. UNICEF is a tobacco-free environment. Additional information regarding the selection process, position, and working conditions will only be made available to pre-selected candidates.

WORKPLACE: Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

DURATION: 6 months, 20 hours per week.

Since 1950, UNICEF has supported the most important transformations in the area of ​​childhood and adolescence in Brazil.

In recent decades, Brazil has promoted a strong process of including children and adolescents in public policies. However, a significant portion of the population remains excluded. Therefore, UNICEF focuses its efforts on the most excluded, vulnerable, and victims of extreme forms of violence.

These vulnerable children are found throughout the country, but with a higher concentration in the Amazon, the Semi-Arid region, and large urban centers. Through the UNICEF Seal and the UNICEF City Agenda, UNICEF reaches nearly 2,000 municipalities in the Legal Amazon and Semi-Arid regions, as well as 15 Brazilian state capitals.

With everyone’s engagement, UNICEF hopes to promote positive changes that can potentially impact the lives of all children and adolescents in Brazil. Check out UNICEF’s main areas of action in the country here: https://www.unicef.org/brazil/o-que-fazemos

In 2022, UNICEF will launch the #UNICEFCityAgenda in eight Brazilian capitals in partnership with municipal governments in major Brazilian urban centers to promote the rights and opportunities of the most vulnerable children and adolescents, contributing to the prevention of violence in their lives. Currently in its second edition, the initiative is taking place in Belém, Fortaleza, Manaus, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, São Luís, and São Paulo.

Together with civil society organizations, businesses, and communities and adolescents themselves, the Agenda proposes a joint effort to ensure that every child and adolescent is in school, learning, grows up with opportunities for productive inclusion, has access to services to protect against violence, and has their overall health and well-being assured.

To strengthen UNICEF Brazil’s work in preventing and combating violence against children and adolescents, especially armed violence, the UNICEF office in Rio de Janeiro has been dedicated to deepening understanding of this situation through evidence-gathering and advocacy efforts. In this way, it seeks to expand its response, contributing more specific and effective strategies that ensure the protection of those most in need in this challenging environment.

TASKS FOR WHICH THE INTERN IS RESPONSIBLE:

• Support UNICEF’s communication and advocacy activities in Rio de Janeiro, under the supervision of the UNICEF Communications Specialist in Rio de Janeiro, and in close dialogue with the UNICEF Brazil communications team.
• Support the production of content about UNICEF’s work in Rio de Janeiro and other parts of Brazil, including press releases, summaries, texts for the institutional website, and other communication materials about projects, programs, and studies.
• Support the production of life stories for UNICEF Brazil’s website and institutional networks, including character mapping, conducting interviews, and producing texts and videos.
• Support the production of various communication materials, such as social media materials, presentations, reports, and audiovisual content.

• Support the production of guidelines and engagement with the press on UNICEF’s work

• Support the monitoring of the visibility of UNICEF’s work

• Support the collection of information and opportunities for political advocacy on UNICEF’s priorities.

• Participate in internal team meetings, as well as meetings with partners and groups of teenagers and young adults, and support the team with daily office tasks.

The intern will receive supervision, guidance, and coaching from their immediate supervisor during the internship. The supervisor will also conduct an evaluation at the end of the internship.

Eligibility criteria:

To be eligible, candidates must meet the following requirements:

• Be Black, brown, or Indigenous. We encourage low-income youth to participate in the selection process.
• Be at least 18 years old.
• Be regularly enrolled in a higher education institution (Undergraduate) - final years of the course or a maximum of 2 years after graduation.
• Proficiency in Portuguese. Knowledge of English (especially reading and writing) is preferred. If you don’t have English proficiency, you must commit to studying and use UNICEF’s free in-house learning platform AGORA.
• Have excellent academic performance proven by academic transcripts.
• Not having immediate family members (father, mother and/or siblings) working at UNICEF.
• Special attention will be given to relevant previous experience, with a focus on areas related to UNICEF’s work (Communication, Journalism, Human Rights, Children’s and Adolescents’ Rights, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, among others).

Advertised: 06 Oct 2025 E. South America Standard Time
Deadline: 13 Oct 2025 E. South America Standard Time

About the Organization

UNICEF is out to change the world for children vaccination by vaccination, blanket by blanket, biscuit by biscuit, book by book. In most of America, these things are considered completely ordinary. But in many parts of the developing world, they can save a child's life. UNICEF is unique among world organizations and unique among those working with young people. As a global movement, we use our authority to influence decision makers and diverse partners to turn the most innovative ideas into reality. In 155 countries and territories, UNICEF's field staff uses hard-won expertise to meet the challenges facing children and those who care for them. Our history has given us a profound understanding of development and the importance of child health, education, equality and protection in advancing humanity. All that we do helps children realize their full potential. In support of UNICEF's work, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF focuses on five major priorities: education, emergencies, HIV/AIDS, immunization and malnutrition.