Community Engagement Intern, Multiple positions

Port Sudan is the major economic center of the Republic of Sudan and the capital of the Red Sea State in Sudan has limited rainfall that varies widely from year to year and within years.  Droughts occur regularly with devastating impacts.  The climate is predicted to get hotter and drier, further increasing water scarcity, marginalizing livelihoods, and increasing tensions over water allocation and use.  Water scarcity impacts negatively on people’s lives and livelihoods, increasing poverty, causing local conflict, and driving migration. 

Background of the project

As part of the UK Government's support for Sudan’s efforts to move, where possible, to longer-term and more sustainable development, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCDO) has supported UNOPS to implement the “Urban Water in Port Sudan” project. The project aims to increase the availability and reliability of water sources in Port Sudan. The project output enabled access to clean drinking water for an estimated 40,000 people in the states, and the project also supports improved water supply management in two further states.

The UW4PS project has three key components:

• Infrastructure maintenance, upgrading, and expansion to provide access to water to 40,000 people in Port Sudan.

• Capacity building of urban water authorities. Capacity-building initiatives are underway in all four towns, using problem-driven analysis and project-based improvement strategies. The projects are results-focused and integrate across HR, logistics, procurement, and technical aspects. Capacity building supports institutional strengthening with limited training of individuals, the latter being focused on on-the-job training and specially developed training sessions rather than external courses.

• Institutional capacity urban water utilities in Port Sudan. This component represents knowledge management, dissemination, and upscaling initiative, to share learning and commence interactions at the Federal level to address systemic challenges facing utilities.

  Under the direct supervision of the Capacity Building Senior Officer, the Community Engagement  Intern  will do the following duties.
1. Provide support to overall Community Engagement (CE) efforts: 

• The intern will work in close collaboration with the CE Team lead to support activities planning and implementation.

• The intern will also work with key stakeholders to prepare meeting and meeting agendas and update the stakeholder’s database. 

• The intern will submit weekly updates capturing tasks achieved, pending and next steps of action. 

•  Entry, filing, and packaging of community engagement activities report and data collected from the field. 

• Support planning and implementation of community engagement activities such as workshops, awareness sessions, and public meetings. 

• Coordinate with other units to organize logistics and supplies, including printing and packaging of activities tools (forms, handouts, agenda, etc.). 

• Documentation of CE activities success stories

• Other duties as assigned and agreed upon with the community engagement team.

2. Communications:

• Manage intercultural leaders facebook group and social media content.

• Provide content for UNAOC reports/newsletters related to UNAOC members.

• Create communication materials when needed.

3. Site maintenance:

• Liaise with the web development team for technical support.

• Identify opportunities to improve user experience.

• Identify bugs and report bugs to the technical team.

• Ensure the platform is up and running with minimal to zero downtime.

4. Reporting:

• Provide monthly updates on overall user satisfaction; generate quarterly statistics report; compile events and activities of IL members

5. Contribute, when needed, to the overall implementation of the intercultural innovation award 

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time.
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• UNOPS embraces diversity and it is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, or disability.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• For retainer contracts, you must complete a few Mandatory Courses (around 4 hours) in your own time, before providing services to UNOPS.
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  
• All UNOPS personnel are responsible for performing their duties in accordance with the UN Charter, UN Staff Regulations and Rules, UNOPS Policies and Instructions, as well as other relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, all personnel must demonstrate an understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a manner consistent with UN core values and the UN Common Agenda.
• It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns. Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.