Media Intern

Intro about AltCityAltCity is a new social venture based in Beirut, Lebanon. We aim to radically expand access to the tools, resources, and spaces that enable innovative, creative, high impact, and socially-relevant media and entrepreneurial initiatives.
Job description The AltCity media intern will play a key role in our upcoming training project for innovative, socially relevant start-ups, both for-profit and non-profit. The intern will assist specifically with media and research elements of the training project.
The intern will be responsible for:
- Assisting with coordination of the training program
- Researching media-related topics  (basic social media, writing for the web, online campaining, online marketing, basics of journalism writing...etc. that will be used to prepare training module(s)
- Translating materials from Arabic to English and English to Arabic
- Editing/proofreading documents
- Helping with outreach and recruitment
- Write a minimum of two posts per week to go on hibr.me and altcity.me websites
- Monitoring the project's milestone and deadlines, including calendar management
- Drafting relevant content for the AltCity newsletter and other promotional materials
 
Duration:
Full-time (Monday-Friday) internship for three months, which may be extended for an additional two months.
 
Effective supervision:
Quality supervision with constructive feedback is an essential element for effective learning and mutual understanding. Each intern will be assigned a mentor, who will oversee his/her work and development.
 
-  Mentor will provide intern with detailed instructions and information about the work he/she will be doing, including specific tasks.  
- Mentor & intern will meet weekly (at a minimum) to monitor interns’ progress, address intern's questions and provide him/her with constructive feedback on his/her performance and outputs.
- Mentor will provide intern with a certificate and letter of recommendation upon successful completion of internship.
Start date: Immediately
Preferences:Media and Journalism students Interest in mediaArabic & English language skills