Overview
Interns will support the Executive Office of the Secretary-General with strategic analysis, priority-setting, forward planning, and alignment of plans and resources across various workstreams.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in the preparation of UN System-wide senior-level management meetings, conferences, and retreats.
- Contribute to the creation of analytics, slide decks and background papers.
- Support the tracking and analysis of decisions and their implementation.
- Contribute to the planning, design, and implementation of the UN 2.0 Accelerator change management programme.
- Support UN 2.0 community and campaign management, including UN System-wide events.
- Assist in developing digital solutions and providing technical support for existing tools and platforms.
- Monitor, identify, and analyze political, geographical, and thematic global trends.
- Contribute to the coordination and development of the Secretary-General’s Global Risk Report.
- Assist in analysis and planning activities related to UN Integration in fragile and crisis settings.
- Support analytics on UN system-wide / cross-cutting needs, priorities, resources, risks, and performance.
- Support resource mobilization through donor research, contact management, and drafting meeting notes.
- Assist in organizing meetings and events, handling logistical preparation and coordination.
- Develop dashboards and visualizations for senior managers to support data-driven decision-making.
Required Experience
Most interns have prior internships or a year or two of full-time work experience; however, it's not formally required for the UN Internship Programme.
Qualifications
- Be enrolled in, or have completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent or higher such as Master's degree or equivalent, Ph.D. or post-graduate degree).
- Be enrolled in, or have completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor's level or equivalent).
- Be highly computer literate in standard software applications.
