Desired start date : September 10, 2025
Duration of the internship : 6 months
Location : SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL headquarters in Clichy
SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL (SI) is an international humanitarian aid association that, for over 40 years, has been providing relief to populations affected by armed conflicts and natural disasters by meeting their basic needs, such as food, water, and shelter. Particularly committed to combating diseases linked to unsafe water, the world’s leading cause of death, SI’s interventions leverage expertise in the areas of access to drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion, as well as in the essential area of food security and livelihoods. Present in 26 countries, SI’s teams—a total of 3,200 people, including expatriates, national employees, permanent staff at headquarters, and a few volunteers—operate with professionalism and commitment while respecting cultures.
Context
Within the Development and Communication department, made up of 19 people, and directly reporting to the Field Communication Officer and in collaboration with the Campaigns and Content Creation Manager, you will provide support to the communications department for the collection and creation of content from the different countries where SI operates, with a significant component of graphic and audiovisual creation.
- Knowledge of the different programs and areas of expertise of Solidarités International
- Knowledge of the humanitarian and geopolitical context of the areas concerned
- Master the tools relating to communication, in particular video editing
HELP WITH THE CREATION OF COMMUNICATION MEDIA AND THE PRODUCTION OF CONTENT
- Support for the Field Communications Officer to collect information from the field and headquarters
- Production of short video montages, photo slideshows and infographics
- Document layout
- Creation of various graphic designs: digital banners, simple infographics, photo retouching, formatting of communication campaign elements (posters, press inserts)
- Occasional production of interviews with expatriates in video or in writing
- Updating the association’s photo and video library, in collaboration with the web department.
SUPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NGO’S COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGNS
- Creative monitoring of the NGO sector and other sectors – offline and online
- Participation in brainstorming sessions and proposal of communication actions
- Monitoring of certain external content production providers (graphic designers, printers, etc.)
- Creation of creatives and communication materials (Adobe Suite, Canva)
- Search for free media distribution spaces – update agency listings, contact and follow-up on requests
- Search for influencer partnership – proposal, contact and monitoring of the collaboration with the campaign manager
SUPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NGO’S COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGNS
- Provides organizational or logistical support in the preparation of headquarters events
PARTICIPATION IN INTERNAL COMMUNICATION
- Collection and dissemination of information internally (for example: mission newsletters, quarterly and annual activity reports)
- Participation in department discussions and meetings
- One-off contribution to other communications department actions
- Participation and support in events organized by the communications department on an ad hoc basis
PROCESSING EXTERNAL REQUESTS
- Responses to inbox information requests
Contributions of the internship:
- Discover how the headquarters of an international NGO works and the relationships between headquarters and the field
- Discover the different professions of SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL in the field and at headquarters, through the Communications Department
- Have an initial understanding of how a humanitarian mission works and its specific constraints
- Understanding the relationships between different humanitarian actors
- Know and master the visibility requirements of donors
- Discover the general and communication-related strategy of an NGO and its development
- Put into practice and perfect your creative skills (graphics and audiovisual) and production monitoring tools
- Higher education (bac +3 level) preferably focused on journalism, communication, international relations and/or humanitarian project management
- Real interest and motivation for community and humanitarian work
- Ideally, initial professional experience in communications
- Good writing skills
- Creativity, rigor, organization and autonomy.
- IT: good command of DTP (Adobe CC pack and in particular InDesign and Photoshop), video editing (Premiere Pro), Windows (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Internet and social networks, email (Outlook),
- Fluent English
- Internship based at the headquarters of SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL in Clichy (92), Mairie de Clichy metro station
- Intern with mandatory internship agreement.
- Compensation: 4.90 euros/hour
- The gratuity is calculated in proportion to the actual hours of presence over the month. (On average 1 month = 154 hours, or 22 days of 7 hours/day)
- Public transport covered 50% by SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL
- Meal vouchers at €8.90/day of actual training, with 60% participation from SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL