MSF SA: Access Campaign Advocacy Internship Programme 2023/2024
MSF South Africa is looking for an Access Campaign Advocacy Intern with good planning and administrative skills, high flexibility, and the ability to work under pressure with competing priorities and deliver results. The candidate must have a passion for humanitarian work and development.
The intern will be assisting the Access Campaign Advocacy Officer with administrative duties as well as research in the area of intellectual property and other access-related issues, collecting and compiling strategic information, and assisting with the organizing of events, campaigns, and advocacy-related work.
Responsibilities:
- Assist Access Campaign Officer with the necessary research, writing, and campaign-related work with the Fix the Patent Laws Coalition
- Assist Access Campaign Coordinator in developing analysis and strategy for access work, particularly focused on DR-TB, Covid-19, and TRIPS related barriers
- Assist Access Campaign Coordinator in day-to-day access to treatment-related work, including but not limited to price research, medicine registration research, R&D-related work, and others.
- Other research and advocacy tasks as needed.
- Create and periodically maintain a stakeholder database (comprising of key stakeholders such as civil society, government officials, MSF staff, etc.)
- Assist with organizing meetings, conferences and workshops, and other key advocacy-related events. Specifically, work with and support the MSF SA Events Coordinator with logistics and other info needed
- Manage Conference Calls, Meetings, and Workshop notes and minutes
- Assist with the development of advocacy-related materials, liaison with designers and printers
- Coordinate the printing and shipping of advocacy-related materials, reports, etc to Field Teams, HQ, and other key contacts
- Create and maintain a good up to date electronic filing system of key documents that can be shared and accessed by Field Advocacy Teams
