Internship – Nodal Learning and Action Communities, HIV/AIDS unit, Programme Group, NYHQ

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each youngster, in all places, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody.  And we by no means hand over. 

The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each youngster, and each adolescent, in all places, in every little thing the group does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing essentially the most deprived and excluded youngsters and households, interprets this dedication to youngsters’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness signifies that all youngsters have a possibility to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favouritism. The deal with fairness accelerates progress in direction of realizing the human rights of all youngsters, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Conference on the Rights of the Youngster, whereas additionally supporting the equitable growth of countries.

Ending AIDS amongst youngsters is important to ending the AIDS epidemic as a public well being risk by 2030. It is a precedence in UNICEF’s international HIV programme.

 

For each youngster, well being 

Reporting to the Sr HIV/AIDS Advisor – Adolescents, and in collaboration with key enterprise models throughout UNICEF NYHQ and a number of Regional Workplaces, the intern recruited to this place will work throughout the HIV Part in UNICEF Well being Programmes. The position will help data work onthe mainstreaming of evidence-informed programming steerage on what works for the holistic wellbeing of adolescent and younger key populations, constructing on the views and innate data rising from the networks.

 

How will you make a distinction? 

The intern will play an instrumental position in coordinating the engagement of younger individuals in a fledgling international partnership, together with direct help to the work of eight (8) Younger Champions for Equality, a various group of younger leaders working on the forefront of reaching social justice within the HIV response for adolescent and younger key populations.

A key piece of the coordination scope the intern will undertake is includes curation of proof rising from facilities of excellence throughout the youth-led responses, together with however not restricted to a repository of sources to assist plan and scale up programmes that handle the well being rights or adolescents and younger key populations. 

Beneath the supervision of the Senior HIV/AIDS Advisor – Adolescents, HIV Part, the intern will:

• Contribute to the data administration operate of UNICEF’s HIV Part and its work throughout the UN Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS, together with preparation of literature evaluations, programmatic toolkits, programming briefs, advocacy items, panorama analyses snapshots, case research, vignettes, useful resource libraries, and technical updates on adolescent-responsive programming
• Have interaction in collaborative studying communities to advance the state-of-the-art in programming for essentially the most marginalized and susceptible populations, particularly adolescents residing with HIV, adolescent women and younger ladies at substantial danger of buying HIV, adolescents from the important thing populations, and pregnant adolescents
• Foster engagement, together with data curation and technical advocacy, with Younger Champions for Equality and networks of adolescent and younger key populations to advance sturdy data communities and help the profitable efficiency of youth-led organizations
• Contribute to high-level technical advocacy and strategy-setting for key and precedence populations of adolescents and younger individuals residing with and affected by HIV
• Have interaction in advancing the worldwide visibility of rising facilities of excellence and experience nodes, and in ultivating the strategic engagement of those adolescent and youth networks inside and past the worldwide HIV, well being, gender response
• Help curation of the tacit data and experiences of adolescent and younger key populations, significantly in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, by duties reminiscent of research administration, survey software growth, convening consultations, and knowledge evaluation and visualization
• Take part in HQ-based technical help and technical exchanges between regional and area places of work
• Take part in preparation of assorted inner and exterior consultations and convenings
• Another duties assigned by the supervisor

 

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should have… 

• A proof of present enrollement in a level program of an establishment of upper training, or not too long ago accomplished such a level (throughout the final two years) in Medical Anthropology, Medical Sociology, Public Well being, Neighborhood Heath, Epidemiology, Neighborhood Psychology, or associated
• Expertise in gender variety and equality on the native/group, nationwide, or regional stage
• Expertise in HIV and/or sexual and reproductive well being and rights (SRHR) programming
• Demonstrated expertise inside the important thing populations’ networks at nationwide, regional, or international ranges could be a definite benefit
• Motivation to realize and apply new abilities in mid- to increased stage data administration approaches
• Demonstrable analytical abilities most popular
• Demonstrable design abilities could be a definite benefit
• Robust writing and conceptualization abilities required
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

 

Advantages to Intern:

• This internship will current hands-on expertise in shaping international agendas inside a multilateral context, by significant engagement with multi-lateral, tutorial, civil society, and community-led entities.
• The intern will achieve perception into the operations and agenda-setting processes throughout the UN system
• Members will obtain mentorship, coaching and devoted help to allow their full participation within the substantive work of UNICEF, supplied by quite a lot of modalities (digital/distant and in-person).

 

Stipend: A month-to-month stipend can be supplied by UNICEF primarily based on the intern’s work location[VD1] 

Period:

Preliminary time period of 14 weeks, renewable for as much as six months

Insurance coverage:

UNICEF won’t be answerable for prices arising from accidents and/or sickness incurred in the course of the intern’s service, whether or not on or off UNICEF premises. Subsequently, the chosen candidate should present legitimate proof of enrolment in a well being/accident plan previous to beginning the internship. The certification of insurance coverage ought to cowl the entire internship interval.

 

Residing Situations and Working Atmosphere:

This internship is designated for a distant employee, with no expectations of journey in the course of the course of this task[VD2] . The intern can be positioned within the HIV& AIDS Part of the Well being Programmes of UNICEF NYHQ reporting on to the supervisor all through the length of this internship. The intern can be anticipated to take part in part conferences, programme group conferences, international all-hands conferences of the Well being Group, in addition to different UNICEF conferences of curiosity to the coed, together with profession counselling and the seminar collection for UNICEF interns. Steering can be supplied frequently.

 

Required paperwork as a part of internship software

• Proof of enrollment in a college programme (or proof of completion throughout previous 2 years)
• Copy of most up-to-date official transcript exhibiting wonderful tutorial efficiency
• Copy of Identification Card (ID)
• One letter of signed suggestion from tutorial establishment on letterhead or from skilled e-mail handle
• Proof of medical insurance protection

 

For each Youngster, you reveal… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, and Accountability (CRITA). 

To view our competency framework, please go to here. 

UNICEF is dedicated to variety and inclusion inside its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, non secular and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals residing with disabilities, to use to change into part of the group.

UNICEF presents reasonable accommodation for personnel with disabilities. This may increasingly embrace, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your software in case you want cheap lodging in the course of the recruitment course of and afterwards in your task. 

 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict youngster safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can subsequently bear rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer extra data to conduct a background examine. 

 

Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. 

The chosen candidate is solely answerable for making certain that the visa (relevant) and medical insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your complete interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of totally vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking over the task. It doesn’t apply to chose candidates who will work remotely and should not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF throughout their contracts.