Intern - Information Management

Overview

Internship opportunity with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) focusing on information management within the Humanitarian Programme Cycle Section.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide field support to country offices and regional offices on response monitoring, including on the use of HPC (Humanitarian Programme Cycle) tools.
• Support data collection and data analysis including identifying trends and patterns related to response monitoring to inform operational and strategic decision-making.
• Support the management and maintenance of databases and content management systems, ensuring humanitarian information is well-organized, accurate and easily accessible.
• Provide support related to the management of population figures (People in Need, People Targeted, People Reached, People Covered).
• Support the Humanitarian Plans History project recovering historical data on past humanitarian response plans, reviewing and cleaning the data.
• Manage spreadsheets and other data tools; understand, document, and ensure the quality of high-value humanitarian data for accuracy, consistency and comparability.
• Conduct literature reviews and desk research on good practices and innovations in humanitarian response monitoring.
• Support in production and update of information products such as reports and charts by analyzing trends and turning data into graphical products.

Required Experience

Applicants to the UN Internship Programme are not required to have professional work experience. However, a field of study that is closely related to the type of internship that you are applying for is required. Your training, education, advanced course work or skills should benefit the United Nations during your internship.

Qualifications

• Applicants must meet one of the following requirements:
• Be enrolled in, or have completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher);
• Be enrolled in, or have completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor's level or equivalent), Preferably in areas related to political science, social science, humanitarian affairs, international studies, public administration, economics, engineering, earth sciences or in a related field. Skills in information management, data analysis, database management, cleaning, treating, analyzing and presenting data and content management systems are required. A keen interest in identifying trends and patterns in humanitarian data and data visualization is required.

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