Internship: Support the Strategic Planning and Coordination Unit, Education Cannot Wait for 6 Months), REQ

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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.

How can you make a difference?

Under the overall guidance of the Director of ECW and the direct supervision of the Chief of Coordination and Strategic Planning, who leads ECW’s Strategic Planning and Coordination Unit, the intern will provide technical and operational assistance to various processes. This will be done through the application of theoretical and technical skills in researching, collecting, analyzing and presenting data and analysis while learning about organizational processes to support the implementation of the ECW workplan. The internship will be full-time, and the intern will be based at the ECW Secretariat in New York (working remotely initially in alignment with COVID-19 management plans for the United Nations).

Internship Responsibilities

• assist the unit to deliver efficiently and effectively, more specifically, support ECW’s Chief of Coordination and Strategic Planning to collect, analyse and organize data (data management).

• assist in gathering, analyzing and organizing program data for timely follow-up and appropriate, integration in position papers, elaboration of draft talking points and presentation in relation to unit’s work.

• develop programmatic and strategic planning templates, tools and maintain and update country portfolio data in the database

• assist in analysis of ECW Annual Workplan deliverables and targets in relation to the strategic plan, indicators and preparing reports, including, as needed, the preparation of quarterly review meetings

Duration: 6 months (Sep 2021 - February 2022)

Benefits

• Interns will receive a stipend of US$1,700 per month.

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

The successful candidate will be highly collaborative, creative and results-oriented with a proactive, flexible approach and a commitment to working with and through others to achieve results. S/he will have:

• Applicants should be enrolled in an undergraduate, Masters or Ph.D. degree programme or have graduated within the past two years;
• Have an academic background in any of the following:
• Be at least 18 years old at the time of application;
• Be proficient in English, knowledge of Spanish and/or French desirable;
• Have excellent academic performance as demonstrated by university records;
• Have no immediate relatives working with UNICEF or in the ECW Secretariat.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

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Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

TO APPLY

Applications must be submitted via the UNICEF jobs website by 15 August 2021.

• Applications must include a cover letter and CV.

NOTE

As a UNICEF-hosted partnership, Education Cannot Wait 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 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 also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. 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.