Status: Approved

Project Code: L-USAID-USA-71

Digital communications to help all children learn to read

Project Title Digital communications to help all children learn to read
Project Summary Leverage your communications expertise to expand the reach of Education Technology solutions that improve children's reading and language skills in low-resource countries.
Country United States
Agency Agency for International Development
DoS Office N/A
Post N/A
Section N/A
Number of Interns 1
Project Description

The intern will have the opportunity to provide communication and marketing support for our reading innovations and competitions. This internship provides an opportunity to apply their research, communication, social media, website management, education and/or international development studies and experience to improve reading outcomes for early grade learners in low-resource contexts.

Required Skills or Interests
Skill(s)
Analytical writing
Data analysis
Data visualization
Design thinking
Editing and proofreading
Graphic design
Marketing
Research
Social media management
Writing
Additional Information

Social media: Weekly posting on Hootsuite (3 posts on Twitter, 1-2 posts each on Facebook and LinkedIn) - 2-3 hours per week; Check-in on social media 3-5x per week and retweet/share relevant content - 2 hours total; Media monitoring of relevant content - Google Alerts, tweets, relevant newsletters - 1 hour per week
Website/Newsletter: Blog post writing - 8 hoursper month;
Communications Strategy: Develop recommendations to improve our social media, video content, website and other communications - 1-2 hours per week
Video creation/editing: Editing/splicing existing ACR GCD videos; Developing new ideas for videos