Job Title: Communications Intern, Latin America & the CaribbeanDepartment: Global Legal Programs, Latin America & the CaribbeanCenter Background: The Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) is a global human rights organization working to ensure that reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights around the world.
With offices in New York City, New York; Nairobi, Kenya; Bogota, Colombia; Geneva, Switzerland; and Washington, D.C., the Center is a non-profit, non-partisan organization changing law and policy throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States.
Our 230+ diverse professionals are committed to advancing the Center's human rights mission through game-changing litigation, legal policy, and advocacy work.
This has powered the Center's exceptional growth to an operating budget of over $50 million and won the respect of law firms in countries around the world, with an additional $29 million annually of donated legal services, representing the work of countless lawyers from more than 46 countries.
The Center's Strategic Plan sets a high mark for impact: By 2030, half of the world's population will be living under stronger protections for reproductive rights than they are today.
The Center has a track record of success to back up this ambitious goal.
Since our founding in 1992, the Center has transformed how reproductive rights are understood and applied by courts, governments, and human rights bodies worldwide on issues including maternal health, abortion, assisted reproduction, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
We have won groundbreaking cases before national courts, U.N.
Committees, and regional human rights bodies.
Additionally, the Center has led the development of historic, proactive legislation advancing robust protections for reproductive rights and has built the legal capacity of women's rights advocates in more than 65 countries and counting.The Role: The Center's Latin America & the Caribbean team is looking for an enthusiastic, resourceful and highly organized intern with a commitment to reproductive rights issues to engage in communications and advocacy activities to enforce reproductive rights norms in national, regional and international fora.The internship is full-time, beginning July 15, 2024 through January 15th , 2025.Primary Responsibilities: As a Communications Intern with LAC Office, your primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Assist communications and logistics for legal and programs projects of the Center and help ensure the execution of the Center's communications initiatives.Assist with the daily monitoring of press mentions and compiling media coverage reports.Assist in the execution of logistics for in-person and digital events.
This could include arranging airline tickets and other logistical details related to lodging and transportation of Center staff and external guests, compiling inputs and talking points from the team, preparing supporting documents, and others.Assist the update and maintenance of media databases and contact lists.Assisting with logistical needs related to communications initiatives, such as the shipment of materials, contact with suppliers, and making quotations.Downloading pictures, videos, interviews, and other materials and subsequent uploading to the Center's cloud storage.Assist in video editing and design of basic graphic materials.Monitoring and downloading of materials from digital content platforms such as Envato and Shutterstock for use in communications materials.Translation of first drafts of documents, press releases, and other texts.Other tasks related to strategic program communications.
Qualifications: Current student of social communication, design, or audiovisual media.Strong writing skills.Demonstrated an interest in gender/women's issues and reproductive rights.Interest in learning about the functioning of international human rights law.Fluency in Spanish and English (B1), Portuguese is a plus.Proficiency in video editing and graphic design software.Organizational, planning and critical thinking skills.Experience or interest in audiovisual production, with an understanding of video processes and communication strategies.Strong organizational, planning, and critical thinking skills.Knowledge of budget creation, Excel, and similar administrative procedures to provide operational and administrative support.
Don't meet every single requirement?
At the Center, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role but your past experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.
You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.Behavioral Competencies: Develop & Manage Self & Others: Takes ownership of individual growth in order to achieve full potential; recognizes the value of team members and helps them develop their full potential while also achieving set objectives.
Collaboration (People First): Works intra- and/or cross-departmentally to support the goals and overarching strategies of the Center and its strategic plan.Feedback (Improve & Innovate): Actively engaged in feedback cycles: Gives and requests feedback to and from peers, supervisors and direct reports about work products, behaviors, values, style, and approaches with a view on how this impacts self, other individuals, and teams.Accountability: Follow-through on each commitment made to individual contributors, teams and partners and proactively informs others of any delays that occur along the way.
Work Competencies: Project Management: Works effectively on project teams in order to achieve long-term project goal and objectives.Problem Solve & Make Decisions: Identifies, analyzes and resolves existing and anticipated problems, using common sense to make timely decisions in order to reach the best solutions for the organization.Internal/External Focus: Anticipates internal and external partner's needs; assesses requirements and identifies new solutions that align with overall goals and objectives of the organization.Communication & Influence: Communicates with and influences others to gain agreement and commitment to the strategic goals of the organization.
