Work Location

Geneva

Anticipated length

6 months

Duties and Obligations

The United Nations Setting Programme (UN Setting) is the United Nations system’s designated entity for addressing environmental points on the world and regional degree. Its mandate is to coordinate the event of environmental coverage consensus by holding the worldwide atmosphere underneath overview and bringing rising points to the eye of governments and the worldwide neighborhood for motion. UN Setting’s Economic system Division works with worldwide and non-governmental organizations, nationwide and native governments, enterprise and trade to develop and implement insurance policies, methods and practices which might be cleaner and safer, incorporate environmental prices, use pure sources effectively, scale back air pollution and dangers for people and the atmosphere, and allow the implementation of conventions and worldwide agreements. Situated inside UN Setting’s Economic system Division, the Sources and Market Department (RMB) seeks to preserve the atmosphere, scale back poverty, and promote sustainable improvement by enhancing the capability of governments, companies, and civil society to combine environmental issues into financial, commerce, and monetary insurance policies and practices in accordance with built-in policy-making approaches of sustainable improvement. Over the previous years, the main focus of the RMB has been UN Setting’s work associated to an Inclusive Inexperienced Economic system. This recruitment is for one internship place throughout the RMB’s Financial and Commerce Coverage Unit, within the Fiscal Coverage Workforce. The Financial and Commerce Coverage Unit is creating and selling macro-economic evaluation and instruments to help the transition of nations to resource-efficient, low-carbon and inclusive inexperienced economies. This contains global- and country-level analysis actions and coverage recommendation, in addition to focused stakeholder dialogues. The place might be linked to the next work streams, which embody analysis actions, coverage recommendation, advocacy, and capability constructing on the next subjects: o Fiscal coverage reform o Inexperienced finance and funding o Inexperienced restoration This space of labor explores the position of fiscal coverage as an instrument to attain the Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs) and implement the Nationally Decided Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Local weather Settlement. It helps world efforts on inexperienced fiscal coverage reforms and advises nations on how fiscal insurance policies can help the inclusive inexperienced economic system and supply of the SDGs throughout totally different sectors from water, power and extractives to agriculture and fisheries amongst others, as a part of the GIZ funded “Supporting inclusive inexperienced economic system approaches to sustainable improvement” venture. It additionally contains the work of the Inexperienced Fiscal Coverage Community (GFPN) – a joint partnership between UNEP, the German Improvement Company (GIZ) and the Worldwide Financial Fund (IMF) which goals to facilitate information sharing and dialogue on inexperienced fiscal insurance policies. Duties: Beneath the direct supervision of the Head of the Financial and Commerce Coverage Unit, the intern will help the group with the next duties: o Put together idea notes and briefing notes within the space of inexperienced fiscal coverage; o Perform background analysis to help the event of latest venture proposals and on-going initiatives on inexperienced fiscal insurance policies; o Help with the general implementation and dissemination of fiscal coverage research, together with help to the overview, manufacturing and dissemination of research and updating inventories of fiscal information merchandise; o Supporting the Inexperienced Fiscal Coverage Community: this contains updating the Community web site with related information objects and up to date analysis of curiosity to the GFPN companions and digital neighborhood; managing communications with contributors to the GFPN; updating the Community’s contact database, strengthening the Inexperienced Fiscal Coverage Community’s social media visibility and supporting the preparation and dissemination of communication supplies and blogs by means of the Community web site; o Put together communication supplies and help outreach actions on fiscal coverage and inexperienced finance, replace a world occasions calendar, and help with the organisation of workshops, occasions and conferences within the space of inexperienced fiscal insurance policies; o Assist the monitoring and planning of the work of the group, together with updating the progress of the fiscal work stream based mostly on inputs from colleagues; and o Supporting ongoing work associated to the position of fiscal insurance policies in greening restoration from COVID-19 o Supporting ongoing work associated to the event of sustainable budgeting devices o Supporting ongoing work associated to the reform of dangerous subsidies o Supporting ongoing work associated to using fiscal insurance policies to speed up the transition to a inexperienced economic system in excessive affect sectors, together with agriculture and plastic o Assist and help in work being finished underneath the NZNP/PAGE initiative by the fiscal and/or different groups underneath the ETPU o Assist ongoing work associated to using fiscal coverage and worth incentives extra broadly to speed up the transition to a round economic system o Assist the group with different actions as requested. The Economic system Division/ ETPU internship is for six (6) months. The Internship is UNPAID and full-time. Interns work 5 days per week (40 hours) underneath the supervision of a workers member within the division or workplace to which they’re assigned

{Qualifications}/particular expertise

Candidates should on the time of utility meet one of many following necessities: a. Be enrolled in a graduate faculty programme (second college diploma or equal, or increased); b. Be enrolled within the ultimate tutorial 12 months of a primary college diploma program (minimal Bachelor’s degree or equal) in Financial Coverage, Worldwide Environmental Insurance policies, Worldwide Improvement, Sustainable Improvement, Worldwide Relations, Public Coverage, Political/Social Sciences or a associated space; c. Have graduated with a college diploma and, if chosen, should begin the internship inside a one-year interval of commencement. Be pc literate in customary software program purposes. Have demonstrated eager curiosity within the work of the United Nations and have a private dedication to the beliefs of the Constitution; Have a demonstrated potential to efficiently work together with people of various cultural backgrounds and beliefs, which embody willingness to attempt to perceive and be tolerant of differing opinions and views.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this internship, fluency in oral and written English is required. Information of one other UN Language is fascinating.

Further Data

Not out there.

Intern Particular textual content

Interns usually are not financially remunerated by the United Nations. Prices and preparations for journey, visas, lodging and residing bills are the accountability of interns or their sponsoring establishments. Interns who usually are not residents or everlasting residents of the nation the place the internship is undertaken, could also be required to acquire the suitable visa and work/employment authorization. Profitable candidates ought to focus on their particular visa necessities earlier than accepting the internship supply.

No Price

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.