Categories: Communication, Social and Behavior Change
How can you make a difference?
The intern will work under the guidance of the Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Specialist team and contribute to community health programming, with a strong focus on reaching ethnic communities, particularly the Hmong population. The role will support UNICEF’s SBC work across health, immunization, child marriage prevention, and parenting for adolescents.
Description of Duties:
Supporting coordination with the Lao Women’s Union, Lao Front for National Development, and district-level partners to strengthen community engagement efforts in Hmong and other ethnic communities, especially on immunization and prevention of child marriage.
Drafting Lao-language communication materials—including articles, brochures, and community messaging—that promote positive parenting for adolescents, vaccine confidence, and healthy behaviours in culturally appropriate ways.
Liaising with UNICEF programme sections to collect and consolidate key information, stories, and visual content related to community health, adolescent development, and ethnic-inclusive SBC interventions.
Assisting with the planning, logistics, and preparation of materials for community outreach and engagement activities, including those related to routine immunization, zero-dose children, adolescent health, and social norms change.
Perform other related duties as assigned by the supervisor to support the communications team.
If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Terms of Reference here:TOR_National SBC Intern_VA.pdf
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Minimum requirements:
Education: Undertaking a degree or recent graduate in a relevant area, e.g., Communications, International Relations, Public Relations, Public Health, Development and Planning, or other related field, with excellent academic performance as demonstrated by recent university or institution records.
Skills: Fluency in Lao and English is essential, including excellent drafting skills as well as oral presentation skills.
Language Requirements: Proficient in at least one of UNICEF’s working languages: Fluency in English AND Laotian (Mandatory)
Desirables:
Knowledge of ethnic minority language(s) would be advantageous.
Ability to express clearly and concisely ideas and concepts in written and oral form and to produce reports in a timely manner.
Ability to cope with stressful and difficult conditions and political/cultural sensitivity.
Ability to work independently as well as with a team in an international, multicultural and interdisciplinary environment and establish harmonious and effective working relationships both within and outside the organization.
Familiar with and understand Lao national and/or economic development issues.
Familiar with multi-culture environment would be an asset.
Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.
Advertised: SE Asia Standard Time Deadline: SE Asia 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.
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