Communications Intern

About the Role

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Communications Intern to support the communications teams with traditional and digital content creation, , focusing on key organisational convenings and high-level events and offering additional support to project communications. This position will be based in the GAIN India office in New Delhi, India and is offered on a 6 months’ fixed-term contract basis.

Reporting to the Country Communications Manager for Asia, the intern will work closely with the Communications Manager, Asia and the Digital Communications Manager to develop communications assets and outputs including but not limited to press releases, blogs, brochures, one-pagers, banners, and social media content.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Updating and following the content creation plan for all communications related activities
• Developing digital and design assets that support GAIN’s key events and convenings
• Supporting the wider communications team to regularly create written assets for project communications such as blogs, success stories, Q&A interviews among others
• Supporting with administrative tasks and the maintenance of communications equipment such as cameras within the wider communications team where needed

About you

The ideal candidate should have the ability to create short form videos and must be fluent in editing with a software of choice and you will posess a good command of photography and visual aesthetics. You will have the ability to create social media plans and execute them across different networks.

The postholder should have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be able to convey technical concepts in a clear way. You will be fluent in written and spoken English, knowledge in another language is an asset but not essential. Candidates’ must be comfortable working in a fast-paced dynamic, international organisation.

You will ideally have a Bachelors’ degree or must be currently studying in Communications, Art or Design (including filmography), Media or related field. Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and Canva and knowledge in Graphic Tablet freehand illustration would be an advantage.

Preference will be given to those who apply with a portfolio. Please include links or attachments to your work in content creation, blogs/articles/press releases, designs and other communications collaterals.

About our Offer

The monthly allowance for this role is INR 15,000 per month (gross).

About GAIN

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Due to COVID19, conflict in Ukraine and climate change, malnutrition and hunger have worsened significantly since 2019, reversing a decade of progress. There is growing recognition that our food systems need to change if we are to reverse these trends.

GAIN’s Strategy aims to transform food systems to make healthier diets from sustainable food systems accessible to all people and especially those whose are most vulnerable to shocks. By 2027, we aim to improve the access of 1.5 billion people to nutritionally enhanced staple foods, improve the access of 25 million people to healthier diets, and support positive food system change in 10 countries. This is bold and complex, and the only way to achieve this is to work together with partners including governments, businesses, and civil society at the country and global level. These goals, and the ways of achieving them, build on our twenty-year legacy of transforming people’s lives with improved nutrition through concerted action and effective policy change.

Our Working Culture and Environment

We provide a flexible working environment that includes a combination of home and office working opportunities through our global hybrid working policy. This encourages our staff to have a healthy work-life balance and increases staff motivation, enriches employee wellbeing, and improves performance and productivity.

All of our positions are based in one or more of GAIN’s designated offices as stated on our job advertisements. Successful candidates will be based in one of GAIN’s country offices and must have the existing right to live and work within a reasonably commutable distance of the relevant city / cities in which the role is advertised. Please note, that GAIN does not sponsor working visas and relocations.

GAIN reserves the right to withdraw an offer of employment for candidates who are considered to ineligible under the above conditions during or after the recruitment process.

Applicants must be currently based in New Delhi, India to be eligible to apply for this position.

This advert closes on 14th August 2023. Early applications are encouraged. GAIN reserves the right to close this advert early should we receive suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition is committed to equality of opportunity and creating an inclusive environment where diversity is valued. We are keen to reflect the diversity of our society at every level within our organisation and therefore welcome applications from talented and committed people from all backgrounds, representing the diverse societies we operate in.