Communications Assistant - Internship

Job Description

Duration: 6 months Job Description

ASSISTANCE IN CREATING COMMUNICATION MEDIA AND PRODUCING CONTENT

• Support for the Field Communications Officer to collect information from the field and headquarters
• Production of short video montages, photo slideshows and infographics
• Document layout
• Creation of various graphic designs: digital banners, simple infographics, photo retouching, formatting of communication campaign elements (posters, press inserts)
• Occasional production of interviews with expatriates in video or in writing
• Updating the association’s photo and video library, in collaboration with the web department.

SUPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NGO’S COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGNS

• Creative monitoring of the NGO sector and other sectors – offline and online
• Participation in brainstorming sessions and proposal of communication actions
• Monitoring of certain external content production providers (graphic designers, printers, etc.)
• Creation of creatives and communication materials (Adobe Suite, Canva)
• Search for free media distribution spaces – update agency listings, contact and follow-up on requests
• Search for influencer partnership - proposal, contact and monitoring of the collaboration with the campaign manager

SUPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NGO’S COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGNS

• Provides organizational or logistical support in the preparation of headquarters events

PARTICIPATION IN INTERNAL COMMUNICATION

• Collection and dissemination of information internally (for example: mission newsletters, quarterly and annual activity reports)
• Participation in department discussions and meetings
• One-off contribution to other communications department actions
• Participation and support in events organized by the communications department on an ad hoc basis

PROCESSING EXTERNAL REQUESTS

• Responses to requests for information from the info@solidarites.org mailbox

Contributions of the internship:

• Discover how the headquarters of an international NGO works and the relationships between headquarters and the field
• Discover the different professions of SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL in the field and at headquarters, through the Communications Department
• Have an initial understanding of how a humanitarian mission works and its specific constraints
• Understanding the relationships between different humanitarian actors
• Know and master the visibility requirements of donors
• Discover the general and communication-related strategy of an NGO and its development
• Practice and perfect your creative skills (graphics and audiovisual) and production monitoring tools

Your profile

• Higher education (bac +3 level) preferably focused on journalism, communication, international relations and/or humanitarian project management
• Real interest and motivation for community and humanitarian work
• Ideally, initial professional experience in communications
• Good writing skills
• Creativity, rigor, organization and autonomy.
• Computers: good command of DTP (Adobe CC pack and in particular InDesign and Photoshop), video editing (Premiere Pro), Windows (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Internet and social networks, email (Outlook),
• Fluent English

If you will offer the following conditions

• Internship based at the SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL headquarters in Clichy (92), Mairie de Clichy metro station

• Intern with mandatory internship agreement.
• Compensation: 4.90 euros/hour
• The gratuity is calculated in proportion to the actual hours of presence over the month. (On average 1 month = 154 hours, or 22 days of 7 hours/day)
• Public transport covered 50% by SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL
• Meal vouchers at €8.90/day of actual training, with 60% participation from SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL

Deadline: September 10, 2025