Remote/Home-based - Child Safeguarding Internship, Talent Acquisition, DHR, NYHQ (6 Months)

Contract

This is a Internship contract. It usually requires 0 years of experience, depending on education. More about Internship contracts.

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, hope

The Recruitment Center of Expertise (RCoE) evolved from the HR Reform launched in 2016 to spearhead UNICEF’s agile and innovative recruitment strategy, which places the RCoE in a leading role, in a globally decentralized recruitment network. The RCoE conducts research and provides business solutions that facilitates the securing of safe talent. RCoE products include standards and guidelines, webinars and tools that will enable UNICEF Offices to make hiring decisions that better position the Organization for success. Leveraging data and lessons learned, the RCoE also orchestrates the knowledge management of global recruitment and selection practices.

The RCoE work is rooted in six pillars namely: (1) Research, Development and Standardization, (2) Toolkit and Talent Group Development and Management, (3) Information, Knowledge Management (4) Communication and Content Management (5) Stakeholder Relationship Management and (6) Measuring and Reporting on Performance.

UNICEF's Child safeguarding policy (2016) is a clear statement of its commitment to child safeguarding. It envisages more detailed procedures and standards to be applied by all relevant divisions for operationalization. To this end, a Child Safeguarding Unit was established in May 2018 as part of the Office of the Executive Director (OED) at UNICEF to coordinate the operationalization of the Child safeguarding policy and the completion of a robust child safeguarding framework, and the generation and operationalization of a global data protection framework.

The Unit provides legal and policy guidance to assess accountability and policy gaps, ensure appropriate norms and standards, establish communications and information systems, and register safeguarding and data protection risks and incidents. ​​​​​​​

The Division of Human Resources is accountable for establishing: standards and processes for screening, to ensure proper due diligence with regard to child safeguarding; general standards of personal conduct concerning child safeguarding; providing training and informational materials addressing child safeguarding; and a performance management framework for UNICEF personnel, through which the handling of non-disciplinary child safeguarding concerns.

How can you make a difference?

Under the direct supervision of the Head of the Recruitment Centre of Expertise in DHR, the INTERN will be trained to collaborate with others and support the embedding of UNICEF’s Child safeguarding standards in recruitment and selection processes.

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate monthly partnership meeting between Child Safeguarding team and RCoE.
• Monitor the integration document on child safeguarding to ensure it is fully implemented.
• Monitor and report on the implementation of the joint Child Safeguarding and RCoE workplan.
• Transform questions and answers on Child Safeguarding to FAQs.
• Coordinate evidence-generation to support Child Safeguarding reporting.
• Additional duties relevant to child safeguarding as required.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will …

• Be enrolled in or recently graduated (within the past 2 years) from a programme equivalent to a master’ degree in Child Protection or social sciences or related field;
• Demonstrated understanding of the international standards on child safeguarding;
• Working experience in international development will be an asset;
• Be fluent in English. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset;
• Be at least 18 years old.

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.

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

• Knowledge of current theories and practices in child safeguarding.
• Very good analytical skill coupled with the ability to articulate ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner both in written and oral form.
• Ability to work effectively on multiple assignments simultaneously and adapt to changing demands and circumstances.
• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with others by developing and maintaining good working relationship.
• Knowledge of computer systems and applications e.g. MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

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

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 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.

CONDITIONS OF SERVICE

Stipend: In accordance to UNICEF's guidelines, selected intern will be provided a monthly stipend of $1,700 USD per month during the internship.

Insurance: Interns are required to demonstrate proof of medical insurance prior to the beginning of the internship. It has to be valid for the entire duration of the internship. In duty stations where UNICEF provides medical evacuation, medical insurance that the intern holds has to include provisions for medical evacuation.

Mandatory Courses: Selected intern will be requested to complete online mandatory courses prior to commencement of the internship.

Location: Selected intern will ideally be located between EST-4 and EST+4 timezones to facilitate communication with the supervisor who is located in New York, USA.

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.