Gender Equality Knowledge Intern

Background

The UN Reform Resolution tasks UNDP to provide countries with an “integrator function” to accelerate progress towards the SDGs by tackling multiple interlinked and interdependent development challenges. The UNDP Global Policy Network (GPN) draws on expertise globally to provide more effective responses to the complex development challenges countries face in achieving the SDGs and responding to crisis in an integrated and coherent manner. Anchored in the Crisis Bureau (CB) and the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS), the GPN has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan, which is aligned with the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

An SDG Integration Team located with the GPN aims to build a coherent and consolidated menu of services (the SDG Integrator “offer”) emphasizing direct short-to-medium-term engagements to respond rapidly to requests from Country Offices for support on national implementation and monitoring of integrated policy solutions, qualitative and evidence-driven analysis for accelerated progress, and knowledge sharing and upscaling of innovative approaches to sustainable development.

Attempts to systematize and codify UNDP’s knowledge architecture started in earnest about two decades ago, and over the years, UNDP’s knowledge architecture has become more sophisticated. The amount of data and information generated within the organization and globally has also increased tremendously over the past two decades.

The current effort toward building a coherent, corporate knowledge architecture aims to embrace a cultural shift that is data driven, tackles complexity, navigates uncertainty and actively manages risk. It also looks to provide a seamless, rapid knowledge sourcing and sharing based on a clear knowledge taxonomy which integrates work around demand from programme countries and highlights integration across policy teams.

The SDG Integration team is hiring a Gender Equality Knowledge Intern to support the optimization of the corporate knowledge architecture, including implementing an updated corporate thematic taxonomy through a rigorous knowledge tagging exercise. This work will feed into UNDP’s wider objectives to evolve the GPN as a seamless knowledge sourcing and sharing platform, with related investments underway on improved knowledge collaboration efforts. The Intern will be home-based and report directly to the Gender Equality global team and community focal point together with the SDG integration team in UNDP HQ and coordinate closely with other relevant teams across GPN.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Gender Equality Knowledge Intern will support on the following tasks:

• Systematically map gender equality knowledge assets across various corporate platforms, categorizing them by thematic area/s along with knowledge product type and geographic relevance.
• Support with organization and optimization of knowledge assets in SharePoint, Teams, and other relevant platforms, including periodic updates of resources on thematic pages such as Gender & Energy SharePoint and Positive Masculinities knowledge platform, as well as generation of content for periodic community Snapshots (news & knowledge digests).
• Tag mapped knowledge assets with the appropriate taxonomy tags across various systems.
• Support with development and update of new Topic pages in UNDP’s Knowledge Centre built on Microsoft Viva Topics.
• Lead tracking of status of existing and new Topic pages.
• Support convening of Community of Practice webinars.
• Support convening of in-person Community of Practice workshop(s) and events.
• Coordinate closely with relevant Community Managers and GPN thematic teams to ensure work meets quality standards.

Competencies

Corporate:

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards.
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP.
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
• Treats all people fairly without favoritism.

Technical:

• Ability to carry out data and information mapping.

Communications

• Able to communicate effectively in writing to a varied and broad audience in a concise and straightforward manner.

Professionalism:

• Capable of working in a high-pressure environment with sharp and frequent deadlines, managing many tasks simultaneously.
• Excellent analytical and organizational.

Teamwork:

• Works well in a team.
• Projects a positive image and is ready to take on a wide range of tasks.
• Focuses on results for the client.
• Welcomes constructive feedback.

Required Skills and Experience

Academic qualifications:

Advanced degree in library science, communications, information science, international relations, or related field is required.

Experience:

• Experience with content classification and metadata development is required.
• Professional experience in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment is required.
• Proficiency in MS Office set of tools is required.
• Experience in library science or information science is desired.

Language:

• Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
• Working knowledge of another UN language is desirable.