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UNDP is the UN’s global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience, and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP is on the ground in about 170 countries and territories, working with national counterparts on solutions to global and national development challenges. In the programme countries, UNDP supports stabilization, state-building, governance and development priorities in in partnership with the host governments, the United Nations system, the development partners and other partners to help the country to achieve sustainable development by eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, accelerating structural transformations for sustainable development and building resilience to crises and shock.

UNDP has been a trusted development partner of the Maldives for more than 40 years, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, reduction of inequalities and exclusion in areas such governance, environment protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation. In each of its thematic areas of work, UNDP at the request of its national partners provides relevant policy advisory support, technical assistance, advocacy, and knowledge to help Maldives achieve its global commitment on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

UNDP Maldives is looking to engage the services of an intern to assist with social media management for UNDP Maldives under the Communications portfolio. We seek individuals who can apply global best practice to national contexts. We are looking for people who are enthusiastic, motivated, and committed to making a positive contribution to development in the Maldives. 

UNDP Maldives employs a strategic approach to communications, with the aim of increasing visibility and public awareness of our work as well as strategically addressing the specific gaps and challenges we face. Our approach is to able to attract and support the engagement of diverse stakeholder groups, including youth, civil society, national and international partners etc. Our communications activities also support effective advocacy and aim to strengthen and expand partnerships locally and internationally.

The Social Media Intern will broadly help UNDP to sensitize young people to the work and mandate of UNDP. In turn, UNDP aims to provide meaningful opportunities for young people to be directly exposed to UNDP’s work and mandate, and to assist them in honing skills and applying their knowledge in a development context.

Assist the Communication Team with the following:

• Assist in generating brand awareness across UNDP Maldives social media platforms such as: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
• Support in updating social media channels in a timely manner, and keep them brand-focused
• Assist in planning and implementing new campaigning opportunities over social media that promote UNDP’s mandate and key development solutions
• mproving follower base and improving retention
• Keeping up-to-date and analyzing social media trends and ways of connecting with audiences
• Assist with generation of inbound traffic on social media and measure results on a regular, and where needed, daily, to establish audience growth and profile, drive audience engagement and content reach, search rankings, measure leads, response rate and quality and feedback
• Based on this, prepare social media analytics reports on regular basis
• Interact with followers and potential followers by communicating and answering questions through the social pages
• Maintain files, databases, and systems relevant to UNDP Maldives’ digital presence
• Assist any other related duties as may be deemed necessary

• Ability to think creatively, work logically and precisely with attention to detail
• Ability to write for social media clearly and concisely
• Knowledge of Adobe Photoshop or other design software is an asset
• Familiar with multi-social posting through programs such as Hootsuite, HubSpot etc. 
• Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity
• Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment
• Self-development, initiative-taking
• Acting as a team player and facilitating team work
• Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively
• Creating synergies through self-control
• Managing conflict
• Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others
• Informed and transparent decision making.

Important applicant information

All posts in the internship categories are subject to local recruitment.

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Note: UNDP reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement.  We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.

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For interns the country office will pay MVR 2883 as a stipend per month. For more information please contact operations.mv@undp.org

Contract Duration: 3 months