Department: Marketing and Communications

Location: UGHE Butaro Campus

Reports to: Digital Content Assistant

Type: 6-month internship

Role Summary

The Communications Intern will support UGHE’s Marketing and Communications team in documenting, promoting, and sharing stories from the Butaro Campus. The role is ideal for a motivated early-career communications professional who is interested in photography and videography storytelling, student and faculty engagement, and community-based communications.

Based in Butaro, the intern will work closely with the Marketing and Communications team, the Student Council, Campus Operations, Community Based Education, Student clubs, academic and non-academic teams, and community engagement initiatives to capture timely updates, human-interest stories, event highlights, and student-led activities. The intern will help ensure that UGHE’s campus life, student initiatives, academic activities, and community engagements are well documented in line with UGHE’s brand, tone of voice, and communications standards.

Key Responsibilities

1. Social Media and Digital Content Support

The intern will support the Communications team by:

• Gathering regular updates from the Butaro Campus.
• Creating written content for events, student activities, community engagements, and campus updates.

2. Event Photography and Videography

The intern will assist with basic documentation of events and activities by:

• Taking and producing high-quality photos during campus events, student activities, community engagements, lectures, workshops, and visits.
• Recording short videos, reels, interviews, and behind-the-scenes moments.
• Capturing key moments such as speeches, group photos, student participation, community interactions, and event highlights.
• Ensuring that consent and dignity are respected when photographing or filming students, faculty, staff, guests, and community members.

3. Interviews and Story Collection

The intern will support UGHE storytelling by:

• Identifying story opportunities, and conducting short interviews with students, student leaders, faculty, staff, alumni, guests, and community members.
• Collecting quotes and reflections from participants during events and activities.
• Identifying human-interest stories from student life, community engagement, academic work, and leadership initiatives.
• Drafting short story briefs, interview summaries, and content notes, and supporting the development of student profiles, event recaps, and community engagement stories.

4. Student Council and Student Initiative Support

The intern will serve as a key communications link between the Communications team and student-led activities by:

• Working closely with the Student Council to cover upcoming activities, events, campaigns, and student initiatives.
• Helping student representatives understand basic communications processes, including content approval, branding, and event documentation.
• Ensuring student-related content is shared through the proper UGHE communications channels.

5. Community Engagement Communications

The intern will support the documentation of UGHE’s community-facing work by:

• Capturing stories and updates from community engagement activities in and around Butaro.
• Supporting communications around student participation in community-based learning and service.
• Documenting partnerships, outreach activities, and community events in a respectful and ethical manner.
• Helping highlight UGHE’s connection to Butaro and its commitment to equity, service, and community partnership.

6. Administrative and Team Support

The intern may also support the Communications team by:

• Maintaining a calendar of upcoming Butaro-based events and activities.
• Supporting basic content planning and coordination with relevant teams.
• Supporting logistics for communications coverage during campus events.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• A bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, graphic design, multimedia, or related field.
• Interest in social media management, storytelling, photography, videography, graphic design, and community engagement.
• Experience taking and editing photos and videos using a phone, camera, or similar equipment.
• Ability to write creatively in English and Kinyarwanda.
• Strong interest in working with students and supporting student-led initiatives.

Required Skills and Competencies

• Writing and storytelling skills.
• Photography and videography skills.
• Basic Adobe Creative Cloud skills (Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom).
• Interpersonal and interviewing skills.
• Organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work with students, faculty, staff, visitors, and community members.
• Understanding social media platforms and digital content trends.
• Ability to speak English and Kinyarwanda well.

Added Advantage

The following would be an added advantage:

• Experience managing social media pages or creating digital content.
• Basic knowledge of Canva, Adobe tools, CapCut, or other editing platforms.
• Experience writing captions, short articles, newsletters, or event summaries.
• Ability to speak French.
• Familiarity with campus, student life, or community engagement work.

Personal Attributes

The ideal candidate should be:

• Creative and proactive.
• Curious and willing to learn.
• Comfortable engaging with students and community members.

Organizational Profile

UGHE is a new kind of university focused on training the next generation of global leaders in health care delivery. The university launched in Rwanda in September 2015. Through an academic experience uniquely rooted in the values of equity, students are empowered to both ease suffering at the bedside and drive transformational, systemic changes to the health system.

UGHE is an initiative of Partners In Health (PIH), an internationally recognized non-profit organization whose mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. In over nearly three decades of operating alongside public sectors in countries around the world, PIH has developed a model to deliver high quality healthcare to some of the world’s most marginalized communities. Nowhere has this impact been more profound than in Rwanda, where Inshuti Mu Buzima—PIH’s sister organization—and our government partners have driven innovation for a decade.

Members of the UGHE community are tenacious and resolute in our drive to attain social justice, make common cause with those in need, listen to and learn from others, and operate with honesty and humility as we uphold academic integrity and intellectual curiosity. The University of Global Health Equity seeks individuals committed to these values to join the team.

Commitment to Safeguarding and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Sexual Harassment

At UGHE, we are committed to ensuring that those who benefit from our work—including community members—as well as our students, contractors, staff, and visitors to our campus are treated with dignity and respect and protected from sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment and any form of systemic abuse, whilst reducing risk and vulnerabilities. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with UGHE’s policy.

• Gather regular updates from the Butaro Campus.
• Create written content for events, student activities, community engagements, and campus updates.
• Take and produce high-quality photos during campus events, student activities, community engagements, lectures, workshops, and visits.
• Record short videos, reels, interviews, and behind-the-scenes moments.
• Capture key moments such as speeches, group photos, student participation, community interactions, and event highlights.
• Ensure that consent and dignity are respected when photographing or filming students, faculty, staff, guests, and community members.
• Identify story opportunities and conduct short interviews with students, student leaders, faculty, staff, alumni, guests, and community members.
• Collect quotes and reflections from participants during events and activities.
• Identify human-interest stories from student life, community engagement, academic work, and leadership initiatives.
• Draft short story briefs, interview summaries, and content notes, and support the development of student profiles, event recaps, and community engagement stories.
• Work closely with the Student Council to cover upcoming activities, events, campaigns, and student initiatives.
• Help student representatives understand basic communications processes, including content approval, branding, and event documentation.
• Ensure student-related content is shared through the proper UGHE communications channels.
• Capture stories and updates from community engagement activities in and around Butaro.
• Support communications around student participation in community-based learning and service.
• Document partnerships, outreach activities, and community events in a respectful and ethical manner.
• Help highlight UGHE’s connection to Butaro and its commitment to equity, service, and community partnership.
• Maintain a calendar of upcoming Butaro-based events and activities.
• Support basic content planning and coordination with relevant teams.
• Support logistics for communications coverage during campus events.

• Writing and storytelling skills.
• Photography and videography skills.
• Basic Adobe Creative Cloud skills (Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom).
• Interpersonal and interviewing skills.
• Organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work with students, faculty, staff, visitors, and community members.
• Understanding social media platforms and digital content trends.
• Ability to speak English and Kinyarwanda well.
• Creative and proactive.
• Curious and willing to learn.
• Comfortable engaging with students and community members.

• A bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, graphic design, multimedia, or related field.
• Interest in social media management, storytelling, photography, videography, graphic design, and community engagement.
• Experience taking and editing photos and videos using a phone, camera, or similar equipment.
• Ability to write creatively in English and Kinyarwanda.
• Strong interest in working with students and supporting student-led initiatives.