OPCW, Internship - Public Affairs Branch

OPCW Public Affairs Branch interns contribute to presenting the face of the Organisation to external audiences. Branch interns support OPCW’s external relations activities by assisting branch staff with some or all of the following: 

• researching and drafting the daily news review; 
• assisting in planning communications campaigns;
• managing the editorial content calendar; 
• updating the OPCW website, including page content, official documents, and articles; 
• conducting social media monitoring;
• drafting posts and preparing visuals for social media; 
• supporting multimedia production, such as graphics, photography, and video;
• organising and supporting group visits and tours; 
• coordinating responses to public information queries from journalists and the general public; 
• Supporting engagement with civil society; and 
• developing analytics reports. 

• Enrolled in and have completed at least one year of a degree programme in a university (or equivalent tertiary institution) or; in a graduate school programme (second university degree or higher) or;
• Have graduated from a university or a graduate school within a year prior to the commencement of the internship and;
• Be a citizen of an OPCW Member State and fluent in both written and spoken English.
• Training in communications, journalism, marketing, copywriting, multimedia, design or a related field.
• Fluency in English is essential and a good working knowledge of one of the other official languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish) is desirable