Intern - Knowledge Management and Data Validation

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Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

The Ending Violence against Women (EVAW) section is part of the Policy Division at UN Women Headquarters in New York. The section is responsible for a number of functions including policy and technical advice to regional and country offices on EVAW, supporting the normative work on EVAW at the global level and developing and managing global level programmes.

The Spotlight Initiative is a global partnership between the UN and the EU to eliminate all forms of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). It was launched on 20 September 2017 at a high-level event during the 72nd UN General Assembly. Capitalized by an initial commitment of €500 million from the EU, the Initiative is a visible political and financial investment in multilateralism. The Spotlight Initiative is a way for the United Nations and European Union to support a comprehensive approach to preventing and responding to VAWG in target countries and do so in innovative and new ways.

The UN Women EVAW section is seeking an intern to support in knowledge management, communications and visibility and data validation through online tools such as the newly established UN Women Spotlight Activity Visualization Platform.

Duties and Responsibilities

Reporting to the Policy and Programme Advisor and working in close coordination with the Programme and Policy Analysts, the intern will support the roll-out of the new UN Women Spotlight Knowledge management and learning plan and support data validation on the Spotlight Activity Visualization platform.

This will include the following key tasks:

• Support the organization and roll-out of learning initiatives within the UN Women Spotlight KM and learning plan, with particular focus on documenting and consolidating knowledge, experiences and lessons learnt on EVAWG based on the learning initiatives and other knowledge generation and sharing of country and regional offices.

• Support the implementation of the UN Women Spotlight Initiative Communications and Visibility Action Plan 2021/22 through contributing to the global repository of comms products and results, supporting visibility related research tasks, contributing to the development of comms and visibility products, and supporting the coordination of the communications focal points structure.

• Support the data tagging of Spotlight activities against substantive areas of work within EVAWG and other data validation on the UN Women Spotlight Activity Visualization Platform.

• Provide suggestions and ideas for any new initiatives and tools which could be used for knowledge management purposes and support the development of these.
• Support the maintenance of the UN Women EVAW Roster tracking system to ensure data and information on roster members is up to date.

In addition to the above the intern will have the following learning objectives for the duration of the internship:

• Gain insight on strategies and approaches for Ending Violence against Women (EVAW) and UN Women’s role and mandate in this regard.
• Gain experience and understanding of the work of the UN system and UN Women.
• Understand the linkages and importance of knowledge generation, systematization and capacity development efforts.

Competencies

Core Values:

• Respect for Diversity
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
• Accountability
• Creative Problem Solving
• Effective Communication
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Leading by Example

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies:

https://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf?la=en&vs=637

Functional Competencies:

• Knowledge of advancing gender equality or ending violence against women
• Aptitude in dealing with data and information with high accuracy
• Strong attention to detail
• Technologically adept
• Strong knowledge of MS office applications and in particular excel
• Experience with SharePoint is an asset
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Team player with strong inter-personnel skills
• Communications and visibility or story writing skills are desired

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• University studies in one of the following disciplines: international development, law, political science, gender studies, social work, knowledge management or other similar subject at the university level.
• 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 programme (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, or be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program which is part of a degree programme and undertake the internship as part of the program requirements.

Language:

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) in English are required;
• Working knowledge of another UN language is an advantage.

Renumeration:

Interns who are not in receipt of financial support from other sources such as universities or other institutions will receive a stipend from UN Women to partially subsidize their basic living costs for the duration of the internship.

Application Information:

• Due to the high volume of applications received, we can ONLY contact successful candidates.
• Successful candidate will be required to provide proof of enrollment in a valid health insurance plan at the duty station of the internship, proof of school enrollment or degree, a scanned copy of their passport/national ID and a copy of a valid visa (as applicable).

Note:

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.