Wherever possible, ARTICLE 19 seeks to ensure that all vacancies are advertised on this website. We regret that we are unable to consider applications for paid employment or an unpaid internship unless received in response to a specific advertisement. The current positions available are as follows:
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Iran Programme Intern

Reports to: Iran Programme Officer
Located: Farringdon Road, London
Time commitment: 2-3 days per week, days in office to be arranged
Duration: 3-6 months (ideally beginning 13th September)

Purpose:

The intern will support ARTICLE 19’s Iran Programme campaigning on freedom of expression in Iran by supporting Iranian freedom of expression activists. A core feature of the programme is the maintenance and development of the Farsi and English website Azad Tribune which offers a platform to encourage debate and action on combating censorship in Iran. Parallel to this, the programme also aims to build and maintain strategic partnerships with other organisations and groups to exploit opportunities for developing joint work and bringing about change.

The ideal candidate will be a recent graduate with preliminary exposure to human rights work in the charity sector and enthusiastic about ARTICLE 19’s work and values, with strong web and writing skills. Fluency in both English and Farsi are essential.

Key Tasks:

A detailed work plan will be mutually agreed with the Programme Officer based on the tasks generally outlined below:

• Providing administrative support in the implementation of the project
  
• Providing research support including monitoring the situation on FOE/RTI in Iran for the website and exploration of the blogosphere relevant to the programme
  
• Update the project’s websites (Azad Tribune and Facebook) as required
  
• Provide assistance in translation including the commission of pieces to translators
  
• Participating and contributing to meetings
  

TO APPLY: please send your CV and a covering letter outlining your motivation and indicating your availability, to amir@article19.org no later than 5 September 2010. Please ensure that you add ‘IRAN INTERNSHIP’ in the subject line of your e-mail.

All interns need to have the right to work in the UK or meet requirements specified under the UK points based system to work in the UK under the charity worker (Tier 5 Temporary Worker) category. For further details please go to http://www.gov.uk/workingintheuk/tier5/charityworkers/

Please note, internships are unpaid and so interns should be able to fund themselves independently. In the absence of bursary funding, actual lunch and travel expenses for each day spent in the ARTICLE19 London office can be claimed on production of receipts up to a maximum £10 per day travel and £5 per day lunch.

Internship application form: http://www.article19.org/about/pdf/intern-application-form.doc