Category: Professional Opportunities

UN Young Professionals Programme 2025-26

Professional OpportunitiesUnited Nations Young Professionals Programme, New York, USA. Deadline: 14 December 2025.

The UN Young Professionals Programme (YPP) is a recruitment initiative for talented, highly qualified professionals to start a career as an international civil servant with the UN Secretariat. It consists of an entrance examination process and professional development once those who are successful start their career with the UN.

The YPP examination is held once a year in different subject areas, depending on the needs of the UN. Global Communication is the subject area for this year’s YPP examination.

Participating countries:
Andorra, Angola, Belize, Brunei Darussalam, China, Cuba, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Germany, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Israel, Japan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Monaco, Nauru, Oman, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Qatar, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Vanuatu, Viet Nam.

Eligibility Criteria:
* Nationality of a participating Member State
* Bachelor’s degree or at least a 3-year equivalent degree relevant for the exam area
* 32 years of age or younger (born on or after 1 Jan. 1993)
* Fluency in English or French

Paid Translation Opportunity for a Bilingual Speaker of Portuguese

Professional Opportunities

Arte-Via Cooperativa, in Portugal, is looking for translators of  a book by Ana Filomena Amaral, The Director.

There is funding available to support the translation of this book, from the Ministry of Culture. The Director focuses on the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh, adapting it to the current reality. Contemporary problems are addressed, from the destruction of the oceans to the genocide of Armenians, corruption at the highest level and the predatory greed that threatens the planet, including the situation of Syrian refugees, in the perspective of what humanity wants for the future and what way is compromising you. The question of immortality is nuclear, as in the Gilgamesh epic.

The book has already been translated into Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, English, Finnish, Greek, Indonesian, Spanish, and Swedish.

The deadline for submission to them is in March 2026, but the application must come from a publisher. If you do not have an existing relationship with a publisher for your language, contact Arte-Via Cooperativa to work on this project with them ahead of time.

 

Call for Nominations: JIIC Editor for 2027

Professional OpportunitiesCall for Nominations/ Applications: Journal of International and Intercultural Communication Editor-Elect, to serve 2027-30. Deadline: January 31, 2026.

During 2025, NCA’s Publications Council will nominate an Editor-Elect (or co-Editors-Elect) for the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. The newly appointed Editor will begin processing manuscripts early in 2027 and will oversee the volumes for 2028-2030. The journal is published four times each year.

Editors of NCA journals occupy a particularly prominent leadership position in the field. In naming editorial boards, selecting reviewers for manuscripts, and making final publication decisions (among other duties), they make a vitally important contribution to the discipline, and they play a key role in maintaining the highest standards of integrity and scholarly inquiry.

The Journal of International and Intercultural Communication (JIIC) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association (NCA). JIIC publishes original scholarship that expands understanding of international, intercultural, and cross-cultural communication. Widely interdisciplinary, JIIC features diverse perspectives and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, critical, and textual approaches to intellectual inquiry.

Call for Nominations: Editor, Journal of Communication 2026

Professional OpportunitiesCall for Nominations: Editor of the Journal of Communication. Deadline: 31 January  2026.

The ICA Publications Committee is soliciting applications for the next editor(s) of the Journal of Communication (JOC). The four-year term will begin with a transition in September 2026.

The Journal of Communication is the flagship journal of the International Communication Association, bringing to its readers the most important and cutting-edge findings in the field of communication studies. Spanning all methods and areas of scholarly inquiry, articles published in JoC are conceptually and methodologically sound, socially meaningful, clearly written, and thoughtfully argued. JoC also features the JoC Forum, which publishes multi-book review essays, as well as occasional article responses and roundtables.

More details about the journal can be found at https://academic.oup.com/joc.

The Publications Committee seeks applications from individuals or small teams of scholars from the ICA membership. The successful applicant(s) will be expected to build an editorial structure that reflects the diversity of the communication discipline around the globe. Multiple factors are considered when evaluating candidate applications, including, but not limited to:

● Clear understanding of the mission of the journal

● Clear articulation of an intellectual and operational vision for the journal
● Demonstrated openness to a range of epistemologies and methodologies appropriate for the scope of the journal
● Demonstrated interest and/or experience in theoretical development
● Demonstrated interest and/or openness to interdisciplinary work
● Demonstrated communication skills and diplomacy
● Reputation and excellence of academic output
● Editorial, managerial or administrative experience
● Tenure or advanced rank
● Institutional support

Team submissions should also demonstrate successful past collaboration and an articulation of how the workflow will be managed among team members.

Volunteer Translators Needed by Tarjimly

Professional Opportunities

Tarjimly is a global nonprofit dedicated to removing language barriers for refugees, immigrants, and humanitarian service providers through on-demand volunteer interpretation and translation. They have asked CID to help spread the word.

Volunteering with Tarjimly enables bilingual individuals to make a profound difference by assisting refugees, migrants, and frontline workers in areas like healthcare access, legal aid, education, and resettlement services—all through a flexible, remote model.

Leaflet describing Tarjimly

Taos Institute: Co-Creating Futures – An Introduction to Social Construction (USA but Online)

Professional OpportunitiesSelf-paced online course: Co-Creating Futures – An Introduction to Social Construction, Taos Institute, Dallas, TX, USA. (no deadline, but available as of April 2025)

Provocative, unsettling, liberating, inspiring … all have been applied to the dialogues on the social construction of knowledge. The ideas have swept across the academic world and into personal and professional life. For many, they contain the ingredients for a promising life together on this planet.

In this new self-paced online course, Ken Gergen introduces the transformative ideas of social construction, challenging traditional notions of objectivity, truth, and knowledge. Emphasizing that our views of reality emerge through our relationships, the course explores the powers and limitations of language, the design of dialogues, and the transformation of conflict.

Through 6 modules, each featuring 3 short videos by Ken Gergen, you will explore and critique approaches that prioritize claims to truth, prediction and control. You will develop a curiosity and appreciation for multiple perspectives, stories, and values. Applications range from therapy, consulting, coaching, education, healthcare, research, governance, community development, to your personal life. In addition, you will learn how adopting a constructionist stance offers significant resources for transforming political, religious and organizational divides.

This self-paced course will challenge your current worldview, inspire innovation in your profession, and point to means of moving more harmoniously in every-day relationships.

The course is composed of 6 modules in 18 parts. Each part features a short video and lecture as well as questions for reflection. Topics include:

Module 1: Multiple Realities
Module 2: Facts & Values
Module 3: Language
Module 4: Making Knowledge
Module 5: Social Construction in Action
Module 6: Peace and Conflict

Sign up now to take part in a next live group meeting with Ken Gergen and Loek Schoenmakers on July 8, 2025, 10-11am EST! (Open to all registered participants.)

Call for Nominations: NCA’s Global Communication Award Committee Member (USA)

Professional OpportunitiesCall for Nominations: Global Communication Award Committee member, National Communication Association, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: 1 October 2024.

The Global Communication Award recognizes communication scholars who have demonstrated outstanding scholarship and notable service in the areas of global communication. Specifically, the recipient will be recognized for distinguished communication scholarship that: 1. De-Westernizes way of knowing and doing, 2. Focuses on regions, communities, or spaces outside of the United States and Europe Integrates and cities international, and global scholars, theories, approaches, and/or methodologies in their scholarship, 3. Amplifies the global ecologies of knowledge.

Committee members review, evaluate, deliberate, and select a winner as prescribed by the individual award guidelines. Committee chair is responsible for coordinating the work of the selection committee and ensuring all deadlines are met. The chair is the third-year member of the committee. The selection committee reviews nomination materials electronically from June to August for an average of 2-3 hours per month. The time commitment for selection committee members is dependent on the number of nominations.

Nominees should be at the mid-career stage or beyond and focused on teaching and/or researching in global communication. NOTE: At least one member must a scholar residing or working outside of the United States.

Nominees must be members of NCA at the time of submitting materials and possess:

  • A willingness to collaborate with other committee members as needed.
  • The ability to think comprehensively about Global Communication research.
  • An understanding of the vision and mission of NCA.
  • The willingness to set aside professional affiliations/friendships reviewing nomination materials.
  • A commitment to adhere to confidentiality when required.

This is for a 3 year term, starting January 2025.

COE Online Course on Global Education & ICD (Portugal)

Professional OpportunitiesOnline course on Global Citizenship Education and Intercultural/Interfaith Dialogue, 7 October-3 November 2024. Deadline: 22 September 2024.

Part of the iLEGEND III project, the training course aims at providing participants with new skills and competences on Global Education, Intercultural/Interfaith Dialogue and Human Rights. It targets education practitioners in the formal and non-formal sector, media professionals and members of Civil Society Organisations and Faith-Based Organisations to:

  • reflect on Global Education, its concept, principles, and methodology;

  • analyse relevant notions related to Intercultural/Interfaith Dialogue, such as culture, discrimination, racism, majority/minority, inclusion/exclusion, etc;

  • develop specific competences focused on defusing and recognising potential conflicts, and actively promoting a culture of peace and non-violence;

  • promote networking among participants involved in global awareness-raising or educational actions.

The conceptual and methodological framework of the course is based on the Global Education Guidelines, systematised by the North-South Centre. Through a non-formal learning approach, collaborative and interactive activities and exercises allow participants to contribute to their own learning process.

The training course is fully online, hosted on HELP CoE e-learning platform. Two tutors will accompany participants during the 4-week activity. The expected workload is approximately 25 hours in total. The activity programme is structured in 4 modules (one module per week). The training course will be mainly asynchronous: this means that each participant will learn on their own schedule and pace, completing activities and exercises. At the end of the training, participants will obtain a certificate of participation.

40 participants will be selected for this activity, preferably between 18 and 30 years old, and coming from one of the North-South Centre member state, a Southern neighborhood or Sub-Saharan Africa country or a Council of Europe member state. However, a quota is available for citizens from other countries. The course will take place in English.

AIEA Conference Internship (USA)

Professional OpportunitiesCall for Applications – Paid conference internships, Association of International Education Administrators, Houston, TX, USA, 2-5 March 2025. Deadline: 16 September 2024.

AIEA is currently accepting applications for interns to assist at their annual conference, taking place March 2-5 in Houston, Texas. They are seeking multiple interns, including a conference communications intern. AIEA conference interns will gain practical experience in organizing and managing a large-scale conference, overseeing student volunteers, handling session and speaker logistics, and supporting educational leaders and the AIEA secretariat staff. Responsibilities include pre-conference preparation through mandatory planning meetings, active involvement at registration desks, directing attendees, and assisting with logistical tasks.

​The conference communications intern will play a crucial role in recruiting and coordinating volunteers, maintaining regular communication with volunteers and other interns, and creating content to share with members during the conference.

Although interns are responsible for their travel and lodging expenses, some meals during the conference will be provided, as well as a modest stipend.

CFP: Capacity Strengthening Training on Transitional Justice and Reconciliation (Kenya)

Professional OpportunitiesCall for Applications – Capacity Strengthening Training on Transitional Justice & Reconciliation and the African Union Transitional Justice Policy (AUTJP), Nairobi, Kenya, 21-25 October 2024. Deadline: 26 July 2024.

Capacity strengthening training on Transitional Justice and Reconciliation (TJ & R) and the AUTJP for women from national and sub-national civil society organisations in the Horn of Africa Region (focusing solely on Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, and Kenya) and the Great Lakes Region (focusing solely on Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda). Sponsored by Life & Peace Institute (LPI), Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), and Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR).

The primary objective of the capacity- strengthening training is to empower African women from national and sub-national CSOs in the Horn of Africa and Great Lakes regions by providing them with comprehensive knowledge on TJ&R, specifically focusing on the AUTJP. This is intended to assist in developing, implementing, and monitoring TJ&R and dialogue initiatives in their respective countries. The aim is to enable these women to incorporate this knowledge into their work and actively promote TJ&R, dialogue, and social cohesion processes within their local communities.