Anticipated length
6 months
Duties and Duties
This internship is hosted by UNEP’s Ecosystems Division within the Marine and Freshwater Department. The Ecosystems Division works with worldwide and nationwide companions, offering technical help and capability improvement for the implementation of environmental coverage, and strengthening the environmental administration capability of creating international locations and international locations with economies in transition. The general goal of the UNEP’s Ecosystems Division is to help international locations in conserving, restoring and sustainably managing their terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems, the biodiversity they include and the services and products they supply for human well-being and prosperity. The Division’s mandate is to deal with the environmental causes and results from an ecosystems strategy, together with the implications of disasters and conflicts. Specializing in tackling local weather change, biodiversity loss, rampant air pollution, throughout aquatic and related ecosystems, the Marine and Freshwater Department helps international locations develop insurance policies and programmes to answer ecosystems challenges, and scale back air pollution from land-based actions, enhance resilience to local weather change and replicate linkages between poverty and the setting of their improvement planning. This internship is home-based (on-line/digital). Inside the Marine and Freshwater Department, the intern will help the UNEP group to ship on its communications, advocacy and occasions mandate in help of the International Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR) in addition to the broader department communications, together with web site upkeep and copy-writing. Beneath the direct supervision of the Marine and Freshwater Department’s Strategic Communication and Engagement Skilled and Department Coordination Lead, the intern’s tasks will fall throughout the following actions to help the general communication, advocacy, and outreach efforts for the GFCR and department: • Help a variety of communication and outreach wants and content material improvement corresponding to video script writing for public service bulletins, internet tales, web site content material administration and updates, and social media textual content; • Help improvement and design of digital and conventional multimedia communications property, using graphic design and different software program as wanted; • Put together suggestions for occasions, publication and product content material to showcase tales and portfolio impacts; • Help social media planning/technique and execution and, in session with the GFCR International Group, help improvement and dissemination of content material, together with visible property corresponding to social media playing cards, by media and networks; • Compose visible property, together with fact-sheets, displays, knowledge visualizations, and data graphics, for inside and exterior use as wanted; • Liaise with service suppliers and artistic companions; • Undertake desktop analysis and help the event of idea notes; • Modifying and high quality management for communication merchandise; Different duties to help the work of the Department as requested and in accordance with the Intern’s pursuits.
{Qualifications}/particular expertise
Candidates should, on the time of utility, meet one of many following necessities: a. Be enrolled in a graduate college programme (second college diploma or equal, or larger); b. Be enrolled within the last educational yr of a primary college diploma program (minimal bachelor’s degree or equal); or c. Have graduated with a college diploma. Candidates have to be pursuing {qualifications} in an space of research that may considerably contribute to the tasks outlined and general work of the Marine and Freshwater Department, together with: • Be laptop literate in customary software program functions (significantly, proficiency utilizing MS Workplace Suite); • Possess high-level English writing expertise. • Display organizational and interpersonal expertise. • Display curiosity in points associated to ecosystems administration, restoration, biodiversity conservation, local weather change or sustainable improvement. 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. Candidates to the UN Internship Programme usually are not required to have skilled work expertise. Nevertheless, a area of research that’s intently associated to the kind of internship that you’re making use of for is required. Candidates have to be a scholar within the last yr of the primary college diploma (bachelor or equal), Grasp’s or Ph.D. Programme or equal, or have accomplished a Bachelor’s, Grasp’s or PH.D. Programme. Do you meet any of the above standards? If sure, please point out which one and fix proof to the applying. Please observe that you’ll have to present an official certificates at a later stage.
Languages
English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the place marketed, fluency in English is required. Data of one other official United Nations language is a bonus.
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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 duty 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 talk about their particular visa necessities earlier than accepting the internship supply.
No Payment
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.