Contract type: Internship
Duty Station: Rome
Level: Internship
Location: Italy
Categories: Communication, Partnerships, Fund Raising
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture.., coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
For every child, the right to hope
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up.
UNICEF’s Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) has ambitious goals to deliver on income and influence. Donor engagement is an important driver of income. The Supporter Content team delivers content from emergency responses, donor stewardship content and virtual & immersive experiences (live, interactive, and compelling, where we use digital technologies to bring to life the work UNICEF is doing in emergency and non-emergency contexts). To support national committees and fundraisersthere are internal SharePoint sites for emergency fundraising support, High Value Stewardship services and a VIRTUAL and Immersive experiences ‘hub’ for fundraisers to preview, and self-serve, everything from invitations to global events, to films and VR experiences to tips and tricks guidance for staging their own Virtual and Immersive experiences. Linked to these is UNICEF’s Data Asset Management system called
WeShare which houses and makes available all the content for usersto access and use in their fundraising efforts.
How can you make a difference?
MAIN TASKS
As part of the Supporter Content team, the Intern will be helping meet the increasing demand for all stewardship content, virtual and immersive experiences and some new offers and functions. Supporting the team to ensure the fundraising ecosystem can access the tools and content to build their own events and easily access content and information. We need your energy and ideas to help us re-design the hub and add content, guidance, ideas, and linked fundraising materials so they can be easily found whatever the time zone or location of our fundraisers.
Responsibilities
- SharePoint page design and co-creation
- Preparing and uploading VE and High Value multimedia content to WeShare
- Metadata tagging of content for WeShare
- Upload of recent VE events into the library and to other storage sites
- Supporting the collection of feedback and data on product usage
- Ensuring SharePoint packages are connected and up to date
- Other tasks as identified in the process of the above.
ESTIMATED DURATION OF THE CONTRACT
26 weeks – tentatively starting on November 30th, 2026
Please mention the earliest date you can start.
REPORTING TO
Communications Specialist, Supporter Content
WORKPLACE
Home-based (Remotely)
Modality:
Paid, Fulltime
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Qualifications
- Be enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate, or Ph.D. degree programme or have graduated within the past two years.
- Applicants must be at least 18 years old.
- Be proficient in at least one of UNICEF's working languages: English, French or Spanish. Another language is an asset.
- Have excellent academic performance as demonstrated by recent university or institution records.
- Have no immediate relatives (e.g. father, mother, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF office; and have no other relatives in the line of authority that the intern will report to.
- Additional consideration will be given for any past experience in communications, marketing, journalism, or public relations.
Additional Desirable Qualities
- Experience using knowledge management platforms and online publishing
- Sharp attention to details in digital content
- Experience of SharePoint and other Office 365 suite of tools
- Video and photo editing skills
- Basic graphic design skills
- Experience of audience building techniques and user communication
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
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Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to selected candidates who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations, or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their contracts.
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Builds and maintains partnerships, demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness, drives to achieve results for impact, innovates and embrace change, Thinks, and acts strategically, manages ambiguity and complexity, and works collaboratively with others. Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse, and on any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination.
