South Asia Program Communications and Media Internship
The Stimson Center
Seasonal Full-Time Internship
Unpaid
NGO
Unpaid
NGO
Washington, D.C.
DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 3, 2017 at 11:55 pm
Description:
The South Asia Program at the Stimson Center offers one internship per season (fall, summer, and spring) to highly motivated and talented undergraduate and graduate students interested in the communications side of the program's work. Program events, publications, and multimedia outreach relate to our work on security and politics in India and Pakistan, including: strategic culture, inter-state rivalry, deterrence challenges, crisis dynamics, great power competition, and patterns of political violence.
The program seeks candidates for the Communication and Media Internship who are creative and self-motivated undergraduate or graduate students. A central component of the intership will be to assist with social media activities for the program's online policy platform South Asian Voices, which features over 100 contributors from the region writing on the security, politics, and economics of South Asia. Interns also support SAV's podcast, The Subcontinental, which features discussion of strategic issues in South Asia, and has featured guests such as Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Rose Gottemoeller, long-time South Asia expert Dr. Steve Cohen, and musician Salman Ahmad of the band Junoon. Additionally, the intern may provide assistance with the program's open online course Nuclear South Asia: A Guide to India, Pakistan, and the Bomb, featuring video lectures presented by experts from India, Pakistan, and the United States.
As part of a small team and a growing platform that is looking to scale up further, interns will have the unique opportunity to make key contributions and gain valuable hands-on experience, working through diverse forms of communication and media from regular special SAV series, discussions on Facebook Live, podcast episodes, and short-video production. As a rapidly growing program, Stimson South Asia is looking for interns that will bring new ideas for innovation and development of our communications and media work.
The South Asia Program at the Stimson Center offers one internship per season (fall, summer, and spring) to highly motivated and talented undergraduate and graduate students interested in the communications side of the program's work. Program events, publications, and multimedia outreach relate to our work on security and politics in India and Pakistan, including: strategic culture, inter-state rivalry, deterrence challenges, crisis dynamics, great power competition, and patterns of political violence.
The program seeks candidates for the Communication and Media Internship who are creative and self-motivated undergraduate or graduate students. A central component of the intership will be to assist with social media activities for the program's online policy platform South Asian Voices, which features over 100 contributors from the region writing on the security, politics, and economics of South Asia. Interns also support SAV's podcast, The Subcontinental, which features discussion of strategic issues in South Asia, and has featured guests such as Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Rose Gottemoeller, long-time South Asia expert Dr. Steve Cohen, and musician Salman Ahmad of the band Junoon. Additionally, the intern may provide assistance with the program's open online course Nuclear South Asia: A Guide to India, Pakistan, and the Bomb, featuring video lectures presented by experts from India, Pakistan, and the United States.
As part of a small team and a growing platform that is looking to scale up further, interns will have the unique opportunity to make key contributions and gain valuable hands-on experience, working through diverse forms of communication and media from regular special SAV series, discussions on Facebook Live, podcast episodes, and short-video production. As a rapidly growing program, Stimson South Asia is looking for interns that will bring new ideas for innovation and development of our communications and media work.
Responsibilities may include:
- Providing communication and media support for program events
- Facilitating outreach with media in the United States and South Asia, including reviewing op-eds by program Director, Deputy Director, and Associates prior to publication
- Helping develop social media strategy to grow the platform's reach
- Assisting with planning, scripting, and editing the program's podcast
- Designing and scripting weekly newsletter
- Designing infographics and other promotional/marketing content
- Helping manage social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, SoundCloud, and iTunes
Qualifications:
- Full-time interns preferred
- Hindu and/or Urdu skills a plus
- The ability to work independently and show initiative
- Experience with design (Adobe Photoshop, MS PowerPoint, Piktochart or similar programs), audio/video editing (Audacity, Garage Band, Adobe Audition, or video editing software), and geographic information systems (ArcGIS or related).
- Excellent writing and social media skills
- Background or demonstrated interest in journalism, communications, or public affairs
Applicants must be able to commit to a minimum of 20 hours per week. Preference may be given to those available 30+ hours per week for a minimum of 15 weeks. Please submit your resume, cover letter, and writing sample as a PDF.
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