Date: Start date: January 12, 2021
Position: Digital Communications Intern
Location: Arlington, VA
Status: Home office
Period of Performance: January 12-April 30, 2021
IDG works to reduce poverty around the world through sustainable, broad-based economic development. We provide practical tools for policymakers and entrepreneurs to make a real and measurable impact for their communities and their countries. We build individual and institutional capacity in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, fostering synergies between local knowledge and international experience. Our areas of expertise range from economic governance, private sector development, international trade, and public financial management to monitoring, evaluation, and learning among many others.
Position Description:
We are looking for a Digital Communications Intern who has a passion for international development with communications experience. The Digital Communications Intern will report to the Communications and Events Manager, and will be an integral part of the Communications team, working on website and social media content development for a quickly growing international development consulting firm.
The intern will assist with projects related to IDG’s website redesign, including drafting content for the site, uploading new content, and creating graphics. The Digital Communications Intern will also create written and visual content for IDG’s social media accounts, including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Writing will be an integral part of this position; please include at least two writing samples in your application.
The intern will join a growing company and will be part of the Corporate Services team. This is a paid, part-time position which will require approximately 20 hours per week. The IDG office is currently operating on a remote schedule and once the office opens for business, the candidate will be expected to report to the office location.
Key Responsibilities:
· Write website content and blog post updates for a variety of international development topics, ranging from economic governance to food security.
· Ability and/or willingness to work with various software to create graphics using graphic design software, such as Adobe editing products (Illustrator, InDesign, or Photoshop), Canva, or Tableau.
· Upload content to website using WordPress.
· Draft social media content, both visual and written.
· Research current events in international development and economic development to connect IDG’s work to timely and/or trending topics on social media.
· Support an online communications and events platform as needed.
Qualifications:
Please include at least two writing samples in the application, as well as at least one example of a graphic design product that the candidate produced.
Candidates for this position must be authorized to work in the United States and not require work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
International Development Group LLC (IDG) is an international development consulting firm that assists donors, governments, and the private sector to achieve sustainable, broad-based economic development and poverty reduction. IDG assistance programs aim to build institutional capacity in the public, private and non-for-profit sectors to achieve measurable and sustainable impact for their communities. Since its foundation in 1988, our company has been successfully managing complex development programs for USAID and other international donors in over 25 countries.
IDG has worked for USAID and other international donors for 25 years, on over 30 projects, in over 25 countries, including: Afghanistan, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Brazil, Chile, Georgia, Ghana, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Liberia, Macedonia, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Russia, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia, Ukraine, West Indies.
Founded in 1988, our company has been successfully managing complex development projects worldwide for USAID and other donors. IDG has extensive experience managing USAID Economic Growth IDIQ contracts and projects, as a small-business prime holder of the PFM IDIQ, Global Business Trade and Investment (GBTI II) IQC, earlier as a prime holder of Omnibus I and Omnibus II, and also as a subcontractor on Macro II. IDG currently implements, as a prime contractor, significant USAID EG projects in Azerbaijan, Tunisia, and, over the last four years, has worked also in Armenia, Lebanon, Liberia, Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, South Africa, and Macedonia.
International Development Group (IDG) is an equal opportunity employer (Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran).
