Company: Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
Department: Communications
Type of position: Intern, paid
Time Commitment: 20 hrs/week
Duration: immediately through end of August 2013
Location: New York City
Objective: To support the Web & Publications Team while providing a comprehensive learning experience to an individual interested in design, web, and multimedia.
Overview: The Web Intern will work closely with the Web Manage, developers, and communications staff, offering day-to-day support and meeting project-based needs as they arise. The Web Intern will have the opportunity to contribute creatively to a constantly evolving, highly-visited humanitarian website while improving his/her design, web and multimedia skills. An individual looking to put an Interactive Design degree to work for a good cause and to learn more about the web will be perfectly suited for this position.
Duties: The Web Intern will be expected to perform the following tasks:
- Post content to website regularly and assist with daily tasks
- Assist with content gathering and organization as we move to the Drupal CMS platform
- Design web layouts, graphics, banners, and e-mail templates
- Monitor and produce web metrics
- Participate in discussions regarding site development and growth
- Create and optimize content for MSF’s social media accounts
- Edit multimedia files, including slideshows, audio and video
- Expertise in Photoshop and other popular visual design tools
- Basic knowledge of HTML
- Knowledge of video editing programs
- Attention to detail
- Ability to troubleshoot ones own work
- Ability to prioritize tasks and manage own time
- Comfortable working on both PC and Mac platforms
- Skills in InDesign and Illustrator
- Previous use and understanding of Content Management Systems (CMS), especially Drupal
