Women’s Resilience to Disasters intern

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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. Through its focus on disaster prevention, mitigation, preparedness, recovery and resilience, UN Women ensures that new and existing disaster risks are reduced by putting women at the center of disaster and climate risk reduction. UN Women promotes gender-responsive disaster risk reduction, climate action, and resilience building through technical and policy support, provision of gender expertise to climate change and disaster risk reduction mechanisms and processes, and by implementing programmes and projects for gender-responsive disaster risk reduction and climate action.

This internship is expected to provide support to the UN Women Global DRR team. The intern will be supervised and guided in their daily work by the Disaster Risk Reduction Programme Specialist, in close cooperation with UN Women Global DRR team members. Under the overall supervision of the Programme Specialist, Disaster Risk Reduction, the intern will contribute to UN Women’s triple normative, coordination, and operational mandate in the area of disaster risk reduction, climate change, and resilience. The intern will provide research, drafting, reporting, and knowledge management support for the UN Women Global DRR team.

The intern requires experience and understanding of gender equality, disaster risk reduction, climate change, and resilience building. The work involves supporting the Global DRR team translate UN Women's strategic plans into effective programmes and results and providing support on DRR and climate justice, especially in the context of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Agreement (SFA), the Paris Agreement on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, as well as the UN Plan of Action of DRR for Resilience. It also entails supporting the development and implementation of UN Women’s disaster risk reduction signature initiative, entitled the Women’s Resilience to Disasters Programme and its Women’s Resilience to Disasters Knowledge Hub – a one-stop-shop for gender and disaster knowledge.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide research support for gender and DRR/resilience knowledge products, tools, and data collection.
• Provide support with research and update of the Women’s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) Knowledge Hub content with latest gender-related DRR publications, tools, insights, and frameworks (including update of WRD Library, WRD Policy Tracker).
• Provide support with the organisation and preparation of DRR and climate resilience coordination mechanisms, conferences, and meetings to advance gender-responsive DRR and resilience, including global and regional Platforms for DRR, Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference for DRR (APMCDRR), and COP.
• Support development of gender-responsive DRR and resilience related communication material for social media (including in the context of APMCDRR, COP27).
• Support expansion of the WRD Community of Practice.
• Support sharing of expertise through support to the WRD Expert Register.
• Contribute to resource mobilization, WRD programme replication, and partnerships development for the Global DRR team and priority regional and country offices.

Learning objectives:

• Increased understanding of UN Women, joint UN gender and DRR work and the UN system.
• Increased knowledge of gender-responsive disaster risk reduction and resilience and gender equality and women’s leadership in DRR.
• Increased experience working on and supporting a knowledge hub.
• Work as a team member in a multicultural setting.

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:

• High level of proficiency in computer systems, internet navigation and various applications (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint) and/or design and photos/videos editing software (e.g. Canva).
• Excellent writing skills: documents and reports in English, ideally related to gender and disaster risk reduction.
• Knowledge and experience with website content management is an advantage.
• Knowledge of other UN languages is an asset.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• University studies in one of the following disciplines gender studies, policy, disaster risk reduction, climate change, resilience and/or any relevant field directly related to gender and disaster resilience is required.
• Meet one of the following:

1. Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher);
2. Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor's level or equivalent);
3. Have graduated with a university degree and, if selected, must commence the internship within a one-year period of graduation; or
4. 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:

• All applicants must submit a completed and signed P.11 form with their application.
• Due to the high volume of applications received, UN Women can ONLY contact successful candidates.
• The successful candidate will be required to provide proof of enrolment in a valid health insurance plan at the duty station of the internship, proof of school enrolment 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.

At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided?on the basis of?qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.?

If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.?

UN Women?has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination.? All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel 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.)?