British High Commission (BHC) recruitment for Fresh Graduate Interns

The British Government is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer.  We value difference, promote equality and challenge discrimination, enhancing our organisational capability. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status or other category protected by law. We promote family-friendly flexible working opportunities, where operational and security needs allow. We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:   Job Title: Intern Location: Abuja Grade: Internship Type of Position: Intern Job Category: Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Policy & Political roles) Job Subcategory: Communications, Press and Media Start Date: 3 April 2018 Main Purpose of Job

• Provide video production, graphic design and campaign support to the Press and Public Affairs team for the delivery of communications objectives

• Working with the Press Team for the planning and promotion of content
• Creation and management of an organised data base of photo and video files.
• Uploading social media posts and answering basic enquiries on social media
• Supporting campaign management and optimisation across multiple channels
• Designing graphic materials and producing short videos for use on digital channels
• Any other tasks reasonably requested by the Head of Communications/ Press Officer

• Be a recent graduate in Media, Communications field (graduated within the last 3 years) with excellent organisational skills and the ability to multitask
• Be computer literate with a high degree of proficiency in the use of MS Word, MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Video editing, graphics design and photography skills
• Ability to transform ideas, statistics and concepts into clear visuals and infographics

• Experience with social media tools like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram
• Experience with creating content for the web such as blogging or video blogging would be an added advantage.

• Changing and Improving, Leading and Communicating, Managing a Quality Service, Delivering at Pace.

• Language - English

• Advanced level proficiency in English Language (ability to understand, write and speak English language without any difficulty)

• NGN136,722

• Learning and Development Opportunities:
  • Online e-learning
  • Communications training
  • Website training
  • On the job learning, job shadowing and mentoring
  • Various development workshops
  • Social media training
• The intern will work for six hours a day, four days (Monday to Thursday) for a fixed term period of 3 months.

• Language: English

• Advanced level proficiency in English Language (ability to understand, write and speak English language without any difficulty).