Intern - Digital Archivist and Global Communications

Do you want to practice and strengthen your skills within digital information management, digital librarianship, and archival practice—while also contributing to communications for a worldwide audience in the humanitarian sector? Then you might be our new intern for the Spring semester 2026.

Who are we?
You will be part of DRC’s Global Communications team, where we work with a broad range of communication and information management activities, both external and internal. This includes managing our social media channels, media relations, campaigns, internal communications and maintaining global knowledge- and content-sharing platforms. Together, we lead DRC’s storytelling, multimedia documentation, and content governance reflecting all of DRC’s work and values.

About the internship
As an intern in the Global Communications Unit, you will work closely with colleagues in Headquarters and across our field operations, including technical staff in DRC’s core humanitarian sectors: Protection, Economic Recovery, Humanitarian Disarmament & Peacebuilding, Shelter & Settlements, and Camp Coordination & Camp Management.

You will gain insight into how one of the world’s largest humanitarian organizations manages, organises, preserves, and communicates information at scale. You will have the opportunity to work independently with tasks related to your academic profile, and you will participate in a dedicated induction week to learn about DRC’s teams, systems, and content workflows.

Responsibilities
Support the development of DRC’s global media library (Digital Asset Management System):

• DRC plans to transition its media library to a new Digital Asset Management (DAM) system. The Intern will support this process with tasks grounded in digital archival practice, including:
• Assisting in the development of the system migration and transition plan
• Defining information architecture, content structures, user groups and permissions
• Designing and refining an efficient metadata schema and tagging taxonomy
• Supporting classification, reorganisation, and quality assurance of digital assets
• Helping build, test, and launch the new system within the internship period

Internal and external communications support:

• Contribute to the development, structure, and usability of our global intranet (MS SharePoint Online), including content organization, navigation, and user experience improvements
• Collaborate with our Digital Communications Advisor, Internal Communications Advisor, and the broader communications team on ad hoc content, documentation, and information management tasks
• Participate in weekly content planning meetings for both media and internal channels
• We offer flexibility for you to influence your workload based on what is most relevant for your study programme. (The DAM development will remain the main priority.)

About you
You thrive working both independently and collaboratively. All employees and interns in DRC should master DRC’s core competencies: communicating, taking the lead, collaborating, striving for excellence, and demonstrating integrity.

You should be able to meet the following requirements:

• Be enrolled at a university in a relevant master’s programme (required for the internship)
• Possess skills or academic experience in information management, digital libraries, digital archiving, metadata design, taxonomy development, usability, or information systems
• Be effective in the use of MS Office and preferably MS SharePoint Online
• Be fluent in written and spoken English
• Have strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Be able to work systematically and maintain structure in your tasks
• Pay close attention to detail and take pride in ensuring accuracy

You should be pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in information management, library and information science, digital archiving, communications, or another relevant field. Students with an interest in photography, digital preservation, metadata work, or information governance will have an advantage.

We offer
Contract length: 4-6 months subject to study requirements and further dialogue.

Workplace: DRC Headquarters located in Lyngbyvej 100, Copenhagen.

Start date: Ideally end of January/beginning of February 2025. We can be flexible on the start

Working hours: Approximately 30 hours per week, subject to study requirements and further dialogue. We offer flexibility when you have study obligations.

The internship is not paid but we offer:

• 2,08 (unpaid) vacation days per month. The days can either be spent as you earn them or be accumulated.
• Free lunch in our canteen (subject to our canteen being open).
• Free participation in our Summer/Winter party (subject to dates)

Please note that if you do not have the right to work in Denmark (through nationality or existing work visa),

you will need to apply for it yourself, should you be selected for the internship. This process can take up to three months from initiating the process. You can read more here.

Application process
All applicants must upload a cover letter, an updated CV in English as well as documentation that you are enrolled in a university. If you are applying for more than one internship with DRC, please indicate so in your cover letter. Apply online on our Current Vacancies page at www.drc.ngo. Closing date for applications: 17th of December 2024. We expect to conduct interviews on a rolling basis, with the latest scheduled during week 51.

Further information
For questions regarding the internship please contact Paola Palladino, [email protected]. Please note that we do not accept applications sent via e-mail.

For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website drc.ngo.

Application deadline: Apply no later than 17. December 2025

Location: Copenhagen