Trainee – Content Management

Trainee Opportunity

Practical Action announces a trainee opportunity for fresh women graduates in communications, journalism, business development or any other related field to work for Practical Action Nepal Office. 

About the role

The trainee will work with the Media, Reputation and Content Team of Practical Action, as assigned by the International Stories Advisor. The trainee will contribute to ensuring that Practical Action’s evidence of impact and work is kept up to date and is easily available for all colleagues to access and understand. Additionally, the trainee will provide support for tasks assigned by other members of Media, Reputation and Content Team as needed. 

The trainee will be responsible:

• To upload new content collected from the field in the content banks hosted in the SharePoint and OneDrive
• To label the photos and videos in the UK and country content banks
• To manage a spreadsheet of the new content collected and update the information spreadsheets in the content banks
• To support finding photos and videos for required communication materials
• To transcribe the interviews and translate Nepali interview into English as and when needed
• To support identifying Hero stories from the content collected
• To collect content from project sites 
• Any other task as requested by line manager and their line manager

Detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) can be obtained from the following link:

Link: Terms of Reference (TOR)

About you

You have a master’s degree in communications, journalism, business development or any other related field. You have willingness and enthusiasm in working with a multidisciplinary and multicultural team. You have strong communication skills and fluent in spoken and written English. You have a good learning agility and a zeal in applying your knowledge in a practical field.

Why join us?

The opportunity to work for an organisation that is making a positive difference to the lives of people worldwide, a friendly and supportive culture, working with values-driven and highly engaged colleagues, work life balance and flexible working – these are just some of the reasons we think Practical Action is a great place to work.

Practical Action is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults, and candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks including criminal checks and terrorist financing. To ensure that Practical Action meets its obligations of safer recruitment, appointment to positions within Practical Action will be subject to a satisfactory criminal check. Criminal checks will be conducted for all roles.

Submit a cover letter along with CV to hr@practicalaction.org.np by 2 May 2025. 

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further process.