Online Internship from Humanium in Research

As part of the development of its projects, Humanium seeks bilingual research interns. Founded in 2008 in Geneva, the Humanium association is actively working towards creating a world where children’s rights are respected, protected and applied. The association is a co-creating lasting change to guarantee children’s rights in the world.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Involvement in Research: Conducting research on the situation of children’s rights worldwide, drafting web content for Humanium including country pages, factsheets, and blog and social media posts.
• Administrative management: Manage email accounts @contact, @volunteer and @project, update database of contacts, register and evaluate new volunteers.
• Other ad hoc tasks.

Education and Experience Required:

• Masters or postgraduate training: Cooperation and international relations, international development, humanitarian studies, communication, marketing, business school.
• Languages: Excellent command of both written and spoke French with proficiency also in English, Spanish or German being an advantage.
• Computer and internet: full proficiency in standard software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), using the internet, management tools for CRM type databases and social media platforms.
• Other: strong critical thinking skills, attention to detail, excellent research skills, excellent writing, and editing skills, ability to write in a clear and concise manner.

Requirements for the remote internship:

• This internship is unpaid professional training; a university internship agreement and/or a contract between Humanium and the intern will be established.
• Very independent and disciplined.
• Strong sense of responsibility and ability to take initiative.
• Ability to work alone and in a virtual professional situation.
• It is indispensable to have constant access to a high-speed internet connection. A bad or slow internet connection is insufficient for the internship.
• Have his own computer and be proficient in common computer programs and the internet.
• Attendance at team meetings every Wednesday is required. The rest of the time is flexible.
• Although the communication tools used allow nearly constant contact with the team through chat, email, telephone, and video calls, the internship is nevertheless carried out alone. Therefore, it is essential to demonstrate systematic procedures, organization, and motivation. In addition, it is important to adhere to a schedule.

Benefits:

• An internship can be done anywhere in the world.
• Flexible work schedule.
• Saves time and money for everyone: the remote internship makes it possible to avoid travel to the worksite.
• He is able to work from home and it is possible to complete the internship part-time, particularly if he is also pursuing a degree or if he need to have a paying job at the same time as the internship.

About Humanium:

Humanium is an international child sponsorship NGO dedicated to stopping violations of children’s rights throughout the world. Humanium was founded in Geneva in 2008 with a single purpose: the well-being of children worldwide. The association strives for a concrete improvement in their living conditions and their basic rights. Humanium’s objectives span three complementary approaches: raising awareness of children’s rights to more than five million people each year worldwide, legal assistance for victims of children’s rights violations, supporting local partners with projects to help children.

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