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 Communications department is currently recruiting for a:
Website Editor
Department
The Communications Department’s main responsibility is to support the lobby activities towards brand owners. The department does this by acting as leverage and by creating constant public awareness for Fairfood’s work among various target groups. The department is directed by the Director Communications. The department consists of four international projects, namely Website, E-campaigning,Public Relations and Corporate Identity.
Function
As a web editor you will cooperate with the Manager in planning and executing online media strategies. The website project contains several disciplines: interactive campaigns, community management (i.e. discussion on our blog), developing ideas for our blog (the Fairfood Blog), making sure the website is up to date with the latest content, and developing new features and functionality for the website, from a graphical / user interface perspective as well as a technical perspective. An internship position at the website project allows learning at one or more disciplines according to your interests and goals.
Your competences
You are presently studying at or have graduated on higher education (HBO) or university level or have acquired equivalent levels of working and thinking through work experience, preferably with a focus on online media, interactive e-campaigning or production of online content.
Fairfood is looking for a person who loves the internet and knows his or her way around any 2.0 platform or community. Preferably, you have some experience with HTML CSS, or CMS systems such as WordPress. You have extensive communications skills in English. Obviously, you have an affinity with Fairfood’s mission.
What do we offer?
This is an unpaid position, which is suitable as an internship to obtain working 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 opportunities 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. To create a beneficial relationship for both parties we prefer you to work for a minimum of sixteen hours a week over a three-month period. More is possible, but not required.
Interested?
If you recognise yourself in this outline and have noticed your core qualities detailed above, we would like to meet you! For inquiries related to the position contact Marije Visée, E-campaigning Manager: coen.warmer@fairfood.org or 31 41183017. If interested, please send your motivation letter and CV to coen.warmer@fairfood.org.
