Climate, Energy, Environment and DRR (CEED) Internship

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, a sustainable, clean and safe environment

Climate change and environmental degradation are some of the biggest threats affecting the world’s children which have the potential to undermine many of the gains we have made in child survival and development. Children are the least responsible for climate change and environmental degradation, yet they stand to bear the greatest burden of its impact. UNICEF is committed to achieving societal transformation necessary so that children can live in a sustainable, clean and safe environment to children. UNICEF’s climate and environmental sustainability strategy is structured around four main pillars to ensure the rights of children in a changing climate. The strategy stresses the need for ambitious programming to protect children from the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation by increasing the resilience of the basic services, and by reducing emissions and pollution. It also recognizes the need for CEED innovations (eg. technical and social) that have the greatest potential to deliver results for children at scale.

How can you make a difference?

As part of the organizational priority to mainstream Climate, Energy, Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (CEED) into UNICEF’s core programming, UNICEF is committed to making children and young people a focus of environmental strategies and empowering children and young people to participate in climate and environmental action. Building on previous research conducted in this area, and ongoing programming towards supporting child and youth participation in climate and environmental policy and action, and on the CEED expanding innovation portfolio, UNICEF is scaling up this area of work within the CEED team in the Programme Group (PG). This role shall provide technical and capacity building support for implementation for climate and environmental policies and procedures and it shall also support the development of a standardized process for supporting UNICEF country offices to deploy most promising CEED innovations at scale.

Purpose and Objective:

The purpose of this Internship is to support the CEED team to mainstream climate and environment into UNICEF’s core programming. This includes supporting UNICEF’s efforts to make children and young people a focus of environmental strategies, to empower children and young people to participate in climate and environmental action, and to support innovation at scale for climate action. More specifically the purpose of this internship includes:

• Coordinating with UNICEF Regional and Country offices and HQ divisions (including WASH, Education, Health, Social Policy, Division of Communications, etc.) to conduct a mapping of climate policies to date to determine the level of child and youth inclusivity
• Perform regular upload of climate data to a dashboard
• Check the accuracy of quantitative and qualitative data, graphs, and figures
• Assist in developing content for a child-sensitive climate policy web interface
• Support compiling database on CEED innovations that have the greatest potential to deliver results for children at scale.
• Support the development of investment cases on building climate and environment action with children and young people.
• Support the development of knowledge products on climate, energy, environment, and disaster risk reduction, including drafting policy memos, guides and reports as required.

The key duties and tasks for this internship are summarized as follows:

1. Liaise with Country and Regional Office Staff to collect information and develop a mapping, an analysis, an updated dashboard, and a technical note for implementation on making children and young people a focus of climate and environmental strategies.
2. Liaise with Country and Regional Office Staff to collect information for the development of CEED related case studies.
3. Support the development of a report with recommended options for UNICEF to pursue on CEED innovations that have the greatest potential to deliver results for children at scale, including assessment of gaps, opportunities, and proposed steps for deployment at country offices.

Benefits to Intern:

• In depth knowledge about Global Climate, Energy, Environment, and Disaster Risk Reduction (CEED) challenges, how they are impacting children, and how UNICEF is programming in response.
• Develop writing and editing skills through developing key resources (i.e. policy briefs, guidance notes, and case studies)
• Gaining experience working with an expert group of climate and environment professionals, as well as colleagues working across other UNICEF sectors (ie. Innovations, WASH, Education, Health, Social Policy, Child Protection)
• Strengthened communication skills by consulting with various professionals across the organization and preparing relevant materials for these exchanges.
• How to use excel to analyze data and google sheets to formulate policy briefs and technical notes
• Gather insight on UNICEF programming across all sectors

Tentative start date: April 11th, 2022

Duration:

April 11th, 2022 – Oct. 7th, 2022 (26 weeks, full time 100%)

Salary/Payment:

In accordance to UNICEF’s guidelines, interns will be paid USD 1,700 per month in the following offices: New York, Geneva, and Copenhagen; or 70% of the net monthly salary of the GS level 3 step 1 in all other the duty stations.

There is no expectancy of employment at the end of the internship.

Insurance

UNICEF will not be responsible for costs arising from accidents and/or illness incurred during the intern’s service, whether on or off UNICEF premises. Therefore, the selected candidate must provide proof of enrolment in a health/accident plan prior to start the internship with the Education Section.

Living Conditions and Working Environment:

The intern will be remote based and work from home. The intern will work with the CEED team and report to the supervisor of this internship. The intern is not expected to travel during the assignment. The intern will be expected to participate in section meetings, as well as other UNICEF meetings of interest to the intern, including the seminar series for UNICEF interns. Guidance will be provided on a regular basis.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will…

• Currently be enrolled in a degree program in an undergraduate or graduate school, or be a recent graduate (within the last 2 years);
• Have strong academic performance as demonstrated by recent university or institution records or, if not available, a reference letter from an academic supervisor;
• Demonstrated advanced technical writing skills (publications)
• Demonstrated ability to navigate and use MS Excel and Google Sheets with ease
• Fluent in English, working knowledge of Spanish/French is considered an asset
• Prior experience with climate, energy, environment and disaster risk reduction in developing country contexts would be a considerable asset
• Have no immediate relatives (e.g. father, mother, brother or sister) working in any UNICEF office; and
• Have no other relatives in the line of authority which the intern will report to.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse, and on any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.