Intern at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the direct supervision by the Programme Assistant, the intern will perform the following duties and responsibilities.

• Assist in providing support to monitoring UNEP's inputs to UN INFO and other reporting platforms.
• Assist in liaising with UNRC Offices to support in monitoring the political situation in the Sub-Region and its potential impact on the implementation of UNEP's projects and
• programmes.
• Assist in research and compiling relevant data and preparing briefing notes for the Head of Office for meetings.
• Assist projects managers to facilitate the implementation of programmes and projects at country level.
• Assist in drafting background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications, Common Country Analysis, Country Frameworks, and workshops.
• Any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications/special skills
Applicants must at the time of application meet one of the following requirements:

• Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher);
• Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree program (minimum Bachelor's level or equivalent);
• Have graduated with a university degree and, if selected, must commence the internship within a one-year period of graduation.
• Be computer literate in standard software applications.
• Have demonstrated keen interest in the work of the United Nations and have a personal commitment to the ideals of the Charter;
• Have a demonstrated ability to successfully interact with individuals of different cultural backgrounds and beliefs, which include willingness to try and understand and be tolerant of differing opinions and views.
• Preferred relevant field of study business administration, international relations, environmental sciences, or related field is required.

Languages

• Working knowledge of  English and French is required