Intern, NYHQ, Culture & Diversity and Safeguarding, OED, 6 months
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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 commitment
UNICEF is looking for an intern to help us with our diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives as part of our overall organizational culture effort. This aims to build a more ethical, inclusive, empowering workplace where all our staff respect, enable, and inspire each other to do our best for the world’s children.
UNICEF’s culture, defined by its underlying values, ethical principles, beliefs, assumptions and behaviours that make the organization and its people unique, is the core of who we are. The culture runs deep and together with the UNICEF mission and mandate, is part of what makes a UNICEF colleague proud to be a part of this organization.
UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their gender identity, nationality, ethnicity, age, dis/ability, sexual orientation, religion, socio-economic background or any other personal characteristic.
We strive to level the playing field by removing barriers so that everyone has a fair opportunity to join UNICEF and leverage their individual strengths and talents. We can only deliver better results for children by intentionally focusing on diversity and by amplifying the voices of those who are least heard.
Our organizational core values of care, respect, integrity, trust, accountability and sustainability guide the way we serve children and the way colleagues at UNICEF are expected to relate to one another. While no large organization is immune to bias, discrimination and misconduct, we make it a priority to create an environment where everyone feels safe, valued and respected. This internship will work on the internal-facing side of UNICEF to help us strengthen our organizational culture.
You can find more information here: https://www.unicef.org/about/unicef-culture and https://www.unicef.org/careers/equity-inclusion-and-diversity-unicef
How can you make a difference?
The Culture and Diversity and Safeguarding teams in the Office of the Executive Director is seeking one intern for a virtual internship 6 months, starting as soon as possible (February 2023).
The selected candidate would work from their present location.
Working closely with the Culture and Diversity and the Safeguarding teams (within UNICEF’s Office of the Executive Director) the candidate would work on the following tasks:
- Work together with the dynamic teams on a variety of communication and behavioural change initiatives linked to promoting the core values within the organization and promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, and safeguarding.
- Support the creation, development and implementation of an internal podcast series and a series of illustrated stories to strengthen internal knowledge sharing. An excellent opportunity to learn on-the-job all about the creation and promotion of a podcast series
- Support the knowledge management/research needs and help compile good practices from across the organization.
- Support the design and multi-media content of various products.
- Support the uploading of content and management of two team’s internal website pages on an adhoc basis.
- Help create engaging and inspiring content for UNICEF’s internal communication channels to mobilize action among employees, from designing documents to writing and editing.
Benefits to the Intern:
- Opportunity to be part of a dynamic multi-cultural team that is leading a critically engaging mandate.
- Opportunity to learn and contribute to new ideas and approaches that bridge behavioural science with organizational change, learning and communication.
- Learn from professionals in the area of culture and diversity.
- Learn to design and implement exiting new projects from professionals in the communication sector.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- Be enrolled in an advanced/undergraduate university degree in a relevant background in organizational development, human resources, behavioural science, communications, marketing, knowledge/information management or other social sciences field
- Have excellent and innovative communication, research, and knowledge management skills.
- Possess skills in developing multi-media content and graphic design production. Experience using Microsoft SharePoint is an asset.
- Have a passionate commitment to and some experience with diversity, equity and inclusion issues
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
UNICEF competencies required for this post are... (1) Builds and maintains partnerships(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness(3)Drive to achieve results for impact(4)Innovates and embraces change(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity(6)Thinks and acts strategically(7)Works collaboratively with others.
[add the 8th competency (Nurtures, leads and manages people) for supervisory role]
During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.
UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children.
UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.
UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.