Position: Media and Communications Intern -Oxfam (Deadline July 2024)
Position: Media and Communications Intern -Oxfam (Deadline July 2024)
The Role:
Oxfam Southern Africa is seeking a Media and Communications Intern to support the communications function, produce and disseminate information, and highlight and promote the work of Oxfam in Zimbabwe, thereby increasing its visibility and influence. This role is crucial in ensuring that Oxfam’s mission to end poverty and injustice is effectively communicated to a broad audience.
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Media and Communications Intern (INT10487)
Employment Term:
- Location: Zimbabwe
- Closing Date: 3rd July 2024
Team Purpose:
The team works with marginalized communities to address the root causes of poverty, suffering, and injustice in Zimbabwe. This involves promoting public awareness, mobilization, dialogue, engagement, and participation in policy changes that aim to overcome poverty and suffering. The team undertakes direct lobbying interventions to influence public policy in favor of the disadvantaged.
Role Purpose:
The Media and Communications Intern will support Oxfam’s communications function by producing and disseminating information that can be used for external communication and influencing purposes. The role aims to highlight and promote Oxfam’s work in Zimbabwe, thereby increasing the organization’s visibility and influence. This involves working closely with various teams within Oxfam to generate and share content that aligns with the organization’s goals and strategies.
Key Responsibilities:
Thought Leadership and Strategic Media Development:
- Collaborate with the SAF Cluster Media and Communications Lead and the Country Representative to develop an interim communications framework for Oxfam in Zimbabwe. This framework will support the gradual establishment of a comprehensive communications portfolio within the country programs.
- Work with the media team and Programme/Project Leads to identify communication needs and establish a schedule for generating communication products such as reports, success stories, pictures, and videos.
- Regularly monitor the media environment at the local, regional, and global levels to identify opportunities and threats, and advise management accordingly.
- Promote the use of cross-platform media products to support influencing strategies and promote changes in beliefs and attitudes in Zimbabwe.
Communication Materials Production:
- Produce and distribute various communication materials that highlight the work of Oxfam, its partners, and the communities they work with. These materials should adhere to Oxfam’s branding guidelines.
- Identify and produce compelling human-interest stories, ensuring their regular circulation to relevant stakeholders within and outside the confederation.
- Compile, produce, and distribute video recordings for research, situation reports, case studies, visits, and campaigns from all Oxfam programs in the country.
- Establish and manage relationships with selected media organizations and individuals in the national media sector to ensure timely and accurate reporting on Oxfam’s work while minimizing the risk of negative exposure.
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Program Support and Capacity Building:
- Ensure that different stakeholders, networks, and target groups receive appropriate information about Oxfam’s operations.
- Develop and monitor a system for capturing and storing essential knowledge from Oxfam and its partners, facilitating easy access, updating, and repackaging.
- Engage with programme teams to explore and enhance programme effectiveness through communications, including the maximum utilization of platforms and social media. This may involve introducing new activities within projects.
- Coordinate with the regional communications team to ensure that Oxfam Zimbabwe’s communication products are integrated into the regional communications processes.
- Ensure that women’s rights are profiled, protected, and promoted in all internal and external materials, channels, and communications.
- Develop and maintain a calendar of events for Oxfam’s country program in Zimbabwe, ensuring that managers are informed of upcoming events and their media and communication requirements.
Required Skills and Competencies:
- Education:
- A degree in Communication, Media, Information Systems, or a relevant field is required.
- Experience and Knowledge:
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to think innovatively and practically to improve the quality of communications.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Zimbabwe’s challenges in information dissemination.
- Understanding of the legislation and policies related to information dissemination in Zimbabwe.
- Ability to identify and develop good media stories that align with organizational objectives.
- Strong news sense and political judgment.
- Proficiency in tailoring media output to fit organizational goals and objectives.
- Ability to understand complex issues and develop clear, simple, and accurate messages.
- Excellent knowledge of social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google+.
- Superior writing and editing skills in English.
- Strong organizational and self-management skills, with the ability to prioritize work to meet deadlines and adapt to constantly changing situations while maintaining focus on delivery and follow-through.
- Ability to work independently, proactively, and under stress in a multicultural environment.
- A strong awareness and understanding of the political context in Zimbabwe.
Benefits:
Oxfam offers a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits, including flexible working options, a generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance, and various other benefits. From the day you join Oxfam, you will have access to a wide range of Learning & Development opportunities, including in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the-job learning opportunities, coaching, and mentoring, and much more.
You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here.
Flexfam:
Oxfam believes that flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future. They are open to discussing flexible arrangements that might work for you, ensuring that both your needs and those of the organization are met.
How to Apply:
As part of your online application, please upload your up-to-date CV and a cover letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.
Our Values and Commitment to Safeguarding:
Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse, lack of integrity, and financial misconduct. The organization is dedicated to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults, and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment through Oxfam’s code of conduct. Oxfam places a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate its values are recruited to work for the organization.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme, Oxfam will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
Diversity and Inclusion:
Oxfam is committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within the organization and encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply. Oxfam aims to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, including within the organization and the wider development and charity sectors. The goal is to create an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring their true selves to work and feel celebrated for the differences they bring.
About Us:
Oxfam is a global community that believes poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. Oxfam’s diverse community includes shop volunteers, women’s rights activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers, and many more. Oxfam GB is a member of an international confederation of 21 organizations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development, and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.
Oxfam recognizes that people power brings about change. As a global organization working to overcome poverty and inequality, Oxfam needs equality, diversity, and inclusion across its community of staff, partners, and volunteers. Together, Oxfam is committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.
Application Deadline: 3rd July 2024
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