WWF's Earth Hour:
Started as a symbolic lights-out campaign in Sydney (Australia) in 2007, WWF’s Earth Hour has grown to become the world’s largest grassroots movement for the environment - largely focused on climate change - mobilizing millions to take climate action in 188 countries and territories. Now in its twelfth year, Earth Hour has gone beyond the hour and achieved massive environmental impacts around the world by harnessing the power of the crowd.
Internship Opportunity:
WWF International is seeking passionate and committed individuals to support our global team with the role based in Singapore on brand and campaign development, corporate and community engagement, digital communications and design work across a wide variety of mediums. The opportunities are open to both students and young professionals, and we hope the internship will last between 4-6 months minimally.
Partnerships Intern (Jan - Jun 2020)
Major Functions:
This role is part of the Digital team at WWF International Communications and Marketing Division based in Singapore, reporting to Partnership Manager.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assist the WWF International team to engage communities, corporates and groups of volunteers to drive the grassroots support for WWF and Earth Hour
- Assist the Partnership Manager with Earth Hour corporate engagement programme
- Assist the Partnership Manager to management collaboration with global partners such as Pocoyo, World Scouting, etc. to support WWF and Earth Hour
- Communicate and liaise with WWF and Earth Hour country teams across the world on partnership opportunities
- Actively engage partners across our networks to use our open source asset toolkits for Earth Hour and other key theme days/moments
- Produce Community and Business Earth Hour Engagement Toolkits that will be hosted on earthhour.org to empower supporters to drive grassroots change collectively
- Prepare presentation and material to collaborate with business and organisations to create impact together with WWF International
- Conduct research and pull together relevant sources of information and evidence to support WWF International's key messages/asks, presentations, briefing notes, to ensure these materials are kept up-to-date
- Partnership reporting including review of media, social media activity and exposure
- Researching background of corporates and community organisations
- Perform other duties as required
Required Skills and Competencies:
- Excellent written and verbal English skills are a must along with the maturity to work in a global, multi cultural environment
- Organization and management skills to stay on top of projects
- Knowledge in professional design software is a plus
- Ability to translate between multiple language is a plus
- Flexibility and ability to work on other projects as needed
- Willingness to learn about the global Earth Hour campaign and conservation goals of WWF
- Interest in environmental and sustainability issues
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