E-mediat Morocco Program: Internship Opening
E-mediat
Morocco Program
Internship
Opening
Program Background
The E-mediat program aims to increase NGO
knowledge and skills to use new media effectively and to promote their access
to these new communication channels to enable them to advance their unique
missions and strengthen their organizations.
It is a program of international cooperation,
administered by the Institute for International Education
(IIE) and funded by the Middle East
Partnership Initiative (MEPI) of the United States Department of
State with the support and kind donations from Microsoft,
Cisco and the CraigList Charitable Fund.
In Morocco, the E-Mediat program is hosted by Tanmia association in Rabat. For the year
2011-2012, the E-mediat program will be implemented in two main regions:
L’Oriental and the Middle Atlas.
Thus, 60 NGOs representing rural and urban
areas in both regions will benefit from a training program from June 2011 to
January 2012 in the following areas:
1. Introduction: New Media and Strategic Planning
2. Website and Blogs,
3. Social networks and online communities.
4. Digital film production and Internet
Activism.
5. Advocacy via the mobile phone and civic
engagement
In addition to Morocco, the program is
implemented in five other countries in the MENA region, namely Jordan, Lebanon,
Tunisia, UAE and Yemen for more information on the E-mediat program, please
visit our webiste.
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Conduct research and draft summaries on social
media (SM) updates;
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Assist in country team to promote program via
facebooke, twitter and other SM tools;
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Translate Blog content into French and Arabic;
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Assist in preparing training modules for NGOs
on E-commerce, Communication; Project Management;
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Assist
team in organizing a local conference in Meknes in February 2012;
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Assist team in organizing a regional conference
in Fes in March 2012;
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Perform other duties as assigned.
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Excellent experience in the areas of local
development and social media;
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Attending training sessions (as an observer);
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Certificates & Letters of recommendation
provided upon successful completion of the internship.
Eligibility:
Applicants should have substantial academic
experience in the fields of communication, marketing, translation, and project
management. S/he should have excellent analytical skills as well as a good
command of English, French & Arabic.
Applicants need to have a good knowledge of social media tools.
This is an unpaid internship. All costs
connected with an intern’s participation must be borne by the nominating
university or institution or by the students, themselves.
Office Hours:
No office hours required. Interns will conduct
their internship on distance level and update in country team on their
projects’ progress on a regular basis through email.
Internship period:
Internships are beginning from December 9th,
2011 and March 31st 2012 to both Moroccan and International
students.
Application
deadline:
Interested candidates should send a motivation
letter and CV (IN ENGLISH) to Widad EL HANAFI, E-mediat Morocco
Country Director via email to emediat.morocco.team@gmail.com
no later than December 5th, 2011.
