Programme Support Intern – Two Vacancies

Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.

An important area of UN Women’s work globally is women’s migration primarily but not only for work. UN Women is thus focused on promoting and protecting women migrant rights at all stages of migration. To that end it addresses migration, development and governance issues oriented to (a) ensuring women’s economic, social, civil and political rights in source migrant communities, in other words the varied and interacting drivers of migration, that give women the choice to migrate or not to; (b) ensuring women’s social, economic, civil and political rights as migrants just prior to departure, in countries of employment and on return. This ensures safe, orderly and regular migration, fulfills normative imperatives and maximizes the development impact of migration. Key strategies that UN women deploys in this work undertaken with partners – governments, civil society, international development co-operation agencies and other UN agencies – is knowledge generation and dissemination forms the basis for policy advocacy and reform from a gender perspective, technical assistance and capacity building within policy and institutional environments to support the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies, laws, plans with budgets, programs that robustly address potential and migrant women’s priorities.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the guidance and supervision of the Senior Global Advisor on International Migration, the intern will provide support to the following key tasks in the areas of migration policy and programming.  A work plan with achievements for the duration of the Internship and learning opportunities will be agreed upon commencement of the internship.

Tasks and Responsibilities: 

• Develop data bases on partners and  consultants;
• Develop e-filing of documents;
• Contribute to research and reporting on women’s migration;
• Contribute to donor mapping exercises; 
• Contribute to the substantive and logistics preparation of meetings, side events, training sessions and presentations;
• Assist in the review, analysis of reports and other relevant materials on different thematic areas in Arab States and other regions in which UN Women works;
• Support in the analysis of data on program implementation and delivery;
• Support in drafting minutes on meetings attended during the period of the internship;
• Support the development of new programs and projects with budgets;
• Write briefings and providing background information on women’s migration; 
• Strengthen knowledge management and information sharing across all UN Women offices on migration by collecting, analyzing and sharing key lessons, promising practices and key documents as well as by creating shared folders; 
• Support communications, especially social media activities;
• Contribute to designing brochures, advocacy products;
• Perform other tasks as assigned by the supervisors.

Learning Elements:

• Increased understanding of UN Women’s work and the UN system;
• Better understanding of the gender equality and women’s rights dimensions of migration;
• Learning different aspects of knowledge management; 
• Meeting and networking (virtually or in person) with other UN Women colleagues.

Competencies

Core Values:

• Respect for Diversity;
• Integrity;
• Professionalism.

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative Problem Solving;
• Effective Communication;
• Inclusive Collaboration;
• Stakeholder Engagement;
• Leading by Example.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies: http://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-employment-values-and-competencies-definitions-en.pdf

Functional Competencies

• Excellent computer and research skills: Microsoft Office (Word Processing, Excel, PowerPoint);
• Microsoft project  and info graphic creation is a distinct advantage; 
• Good computer typing skills.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• The intern should be pursuing/have completed academic studies in business management, public administration, gender studies, international development, international relations, social sciences or other similar subject at post graduate level; 
• Be enrolled in a post graduate school programme/or recently graduated (second university degree, or equivalent); 
• Have graduated with a university degree and, if selected, must commence the internship within a one-year period of graduation.

Language:

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) in English are required; Working knowledge of Arabic or French is a distinct advantage.  

Application Information:

• UN Women will only be able to respond to those applications in which there is further interest; 
• Selected applicants must provide the internship application, two letters of recommendation, proof of health insurance and graduation certificate or university senior year enrollment, passport, and visa (if applicable). 

UN Women Internship Policy:

1) Applicants to the United Nations internship programme must at the time of application meet one of the following requirements:

(a)    Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher);

(b)    Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor’s level or equivalent);

(c)    Have graduated with a university degree (as (b) above) and, if selected, must commence the internship within one year.

2) UN Women internship programme does not provide a salary or remuneration for the internship;

3) All the expenses connected with the internship will be borne by the intern, sponsoring Government or institution;

4) UN Women accepts no responsibility for costs arising from accidents and/or illness or death incurred during the internship;

5) The intern is responsible for obtaining necessary visas and arranging travel to and from the duty station where the internship will be performed;

6) Interns are not eligible to apply for, or be appointed to, any post in UN WOMEN during the period of the internship or for six months immediately following the expiration date of internship;

7) The intern must provide proof of enrollment in a health insurance plan, proof of school enrollment, a scanned copy of his/her passport, two letters of recommendation, and application.

Note:

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.