Fairfood International is a global movement of people passionate about transforming the food industry. Together, we encourage more than 2500 companies in over 76 countries worldwide to make their food and beverage products sustainable. Fairfood International’s head office is in Amsterdam. Fairfood has 5 front-offices worldwide (London, Berlin, San Francisco, Johannesburg and Delhi).
The Fairfood Communications Department is currently recruiting for the position of
Communications Assistant – Land of Promise Campaign
Department
The Communications department provides the various national and international stakeholders with information. It supports the lobbying approaches to brand owners and is responsible for creating constant public awareness of the relationship between mainstream brand products and global hunger and poverty. The department is split up into four different projects based on discipline: E-campaigning, Website, Corporate Identity and Public Relations.
Function
The Land of Promise is a three year program set up to motivate the companies in the pineapple industry to make their production and trade methods more sustainable. As a Communications Assistant for the Land of Promise Campaign you will be involved in setting up and executing the three year communication campaign. Some of your responsibilities will be finding partners, managing social media channels, developing and maintaining close relations with media, composing press releases, media planning and buying and much more.
Your competences
You are studying at or have graduated from a higher education institution (HBO) or university or have acquired an equivalent working and thinking level through work experience, preferably related to communication. You have experience with online media such as Facebook and Twitter. Affinity with the Philippines and in particular the island of Mindanao is a plus. Furthermore, you have good verbal and written skills in Dutch and English. You take the initiative and you are able to work well independently and in a team. Obviously, you have affinity with Fairfood’s objectives.
What do we offer?
This is an unpaid position, which is suited as an internship to acquire work experience in this particular field of work and at an NGO. We offer a versatile position within a young international organisation. You will have the freedom and opportunity to continue developing yourself and achieve tangible results. We value our employees and we fully recognise that flexibility in the amount of working hours might be important for you. We do expect, however, that you will work a minimum of sixteen hours a week over a period of three months.
Interested?
If you recognise yourself in this outline and have seen your core qualities detailed above, we would like to meet you! For enquiries related to the position contact Heleen Lansu, Manager Land of Promise Campaign: heleen.lansu@fairfood.org or + 31 627 243 109. If interested, send your motivation letter and CV to heleen.lansu@fairfood.org .
