Intern (26 weeks, home-based, remotely), Audience and Market Insights Team, Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP), Geneva

The Audience and Market Insights team is looking for an intern to support a range of media analysis projects.

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

For every child, the right to peace

The Audience and Market Insights team is looking for an intern to support a range of media analysis projects.

How can you make a difference? 

MAIN TASKS:

As part of the AMI team, and under the guidance of the Insights Analyst Consultant and the Market Re-search Manager, the intern will contribute to the following areas:

• Identifying, mapping, and quantifying media trends.
• Performing audits of existing research on key topics, and identifying ownable white space.
• Analyzing how UNICEF and other organizations of interest appear in online conversations.
• Understanding perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors towards UNICEF and other organizations, and how these differ by audience and market.

Responsibilities:

Month 1:

• Onboarding with UNICEF and the Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships.
• Learning and becoming deeply familiar with media crawling tools such as TalkWalker.
• Learning and creating search term queries/ taxonomies in Boolean.
• Becoming familiar with key research deliverables, such as previous landscape analyses.

Months 1 to 6:

• Conducting analyses of media trends based on clear guidance and research briefs.
• Performing audits of existing research on key topics outlined in research briefs.
• Supporting the preparation of insights summaries, reports, and PowerPoint presentations.
• Assisting in the maintenance and organization of data libraries, dashboards, and taxonomies.

Months 3 to 6:

• Helping synthesize findings from multiple data sources into actionable insights.
• Supporting ad-hoc requests for data analysis, visualization, and benchmarking.
• Identifying recurring insights and proposing opportunities for refine taxonomies or analytical frameworks based on learnings.

Modality: Full-time, Paid

Reporting To: Market Research Manager, Audience and Market Insights, Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships

Location:  Home-based, Remote

Internship Duration: 26 weeks

Tentative Start Date: tentatively 17 November 2025

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Be enrolled in or have graduated within the last two years from an undergraduate, graduate, or Ph.D. program in Communications, Marketing, Data/Social Sciences, or a related field.
• Applicants must be at least 18 years old.
• Be proficient in English is required; knowledge of additional languages will be considered an asset.
• Demonstrated excellent academic performance, as evidenced by recent university or institution records.
• Clear and concise writing skills (e.g., executive summaries, memos) and the ability to create professional slides.
• Have no immediate relatives (e.g., father, mother, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF office, and no other relatives in the line of authority to which the intern will report.
• Reliable internet access, the ability to work remotely, and familiarity with standard collaboration tools (e.g., Teams/SharePoint).
• Excellent critical-thinking skills, attention to detail, and strong data-interpretation ability (e.g., identifying patterns, validating findings, explaining implications).
• Demonstrated interest in the policy and research work of UNICEF.
• Remote internship collaborating with teammates in New York (UTC−4), Geneva (UTC+2), and Moscow (UTC+3); candidates in time zones UTC−1 to UTC+2 is preferred for optimal overlap.
• Additional consideration will be given for any experience in media analysis and analytics, including Boolean search terms, and especially familiarity with TalkWalker.

Additional Desirable Qualities

• Prior experience with qualitative and/or quantitative research (e.g., interviews, surveys, data coding, or basic statistical analysis).
• Experience collaborating within multicultural or international teams.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse, and on any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Remarks:  

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. 

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)- endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to selected candidates who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations, or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their contracts.