Storytelling, Writing and Content Development Support

UN Women Palestine uses communications and advocacy to promote gender equality, highlight the experiences and leadership of Palestinian women and girls, and communicate programme results. The volunteer will support the Communications team in developing human-interest stories and written content based on interviews and programme information from Gaza and the West Bank, for use on UN Women’s website and social media platforms.

• Conduct virtual interviews with beneficiaries and partners in Gaza and the West Bank, in Arabic and/or English.
• Support the development of human-interest stories, profiles and other storytelling content.
• Draft and edit communications materials in Arabic and English.
• Identify strong story angles, key messages and quotes from interviews and programme information.
• Turn interviews and programme information into engaging web and social media content.
• Adapt stories into different formats, including website stories, social media posts, captions, quote cards and short video scripts.
• Support copywriting, editing and proofreading of communications materials.
• Contribute to communications and advocacy campaigns.

Expected outputs:

Conduct virtual interviews for and develop 2 human-interest stories based on UN Women-supported programmes in Gaza and/or the West Bank.

• Produce each story in English and Arabic.
• Prepare 2 social media adaptations for each story, including suggested captions/key quotes.