Internship Opportunity: CFC Intern, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO), Bangkok, Thailand

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each little one, in every single place, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means surrender.

For each little one, Dedication

The elemental mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each little one, in every single place, in every thing the group does in programmes, in advocacy and in operations.

Social coverage work is of paramount significance to UNICEF, notably within the East Asia and Pacific area, the place numerous socio-economic landscapes pose distinctive challenges and alternatives for youngsters’s welfare. In addressing these challenges, UNICEF focuses on 4 most important areas: social safety, public finance, little one poverty, and native governance. These pillars kind the muse of our efforts to make sure that each little one has entry to fundamental providers, safety, and alternatives for growth, regardless of their socio-economic background.

Amidst this broad spectrum of social coverage work, UNICEF has recognized the necessity to make cities extra conducive to the well-being and growth of youngsters. City areas are rising at an unprecedented charge, bringing each alternatives and challenges for youngsters residing in these environments. As such, the idea of Youngster-Pleasant Cities has emerged as a essential space of focus. This initiative goals to harness city growth for the good thing about all residents, particularly kids, making city areas safer, extra inclusive, and attentive to kids’s wants.

How are you going to make a distinction?

Objective of task

This internship gives a helpful alternative for the intern to make a tangible contribution to social coverage outcomes by helping with the event of concrete merchandise. It serves as a platform for publicity to the various points of UNICEF’s social coverage work, notably within the East Asia and Pacific area, fostering a complete understanding of the group’s efforts in these areas. The internship will help the general capabilities of the Social Coverage and Financial Evaluation part, with a particular concentrate on native governance and the Youngster-Pleasant Cities initiatives within the area. In the beginning  of the internship, a complete work plan will probably be developed, alongside an settlement on formative targets and the competencies anticipated to be gained, all with the help and, the place attainable, collaboration of the intern’s educational establishment.

Actions

1. Help within the Manufacturing and Group of Publications, Regional Coverage Dialogues, and Occasions:

• Help in organizing and managing regional occasions, together with the preparation of needed supplies and paperwork.
• Contribute to the event of supplies and stories for stakeholders, bolstering advocacy efforts.
• Support in making ready particular publications, conducting analysis, and compiling research related to social coverage.

2. Help in Information Administration for the Part:

• Help the gathering, group, and dissemination of information throughout the part, enhancing the group’s capability to entry and make the most of essential data and insights.
• Assist in analyzing social coverage information and creating visible representations to successfully talk findings and insights to a large viewers, together with stakeholders and decision-makers.

3. Contribution to Different Social Coverage Work as Vital:

• Present help throughout different areas of social coverage work, as wanted, guaranteeing a well-rounded internship expertise that contributes to the general outcomes of the social coverage group.

Modality: Fulltime

The intern is required to journey to Bangkok to work on a full-time foundation. There is likely to be a risk of official mission throughout which UNICEF will cowl the price associated to the mission. 

Phrases of the internship

• The month-to-month quantity of internship stipend is USD 780. Interns should fund their journey and residing bills. Journey value to Bangkok (return) may be offered per precise prices, as much as a most of USD 1,000.
• Interns should have proof of medical insurance coverage protecting their time on the responsibility station.
• If required to journey as a part of their official operate, prices incurred throughout official journey approved by UNICEF shall be coated in accordance with UNICEF process on Responsibility Journey (DHR/PROCEDURE/2017/11/Rev.1) or as amended.
• Interns are coated underneath the UNICEF process on Malicious Acts Insurance coverage Coverage (DHR/PROCEDURE/2019/002) or as amended.
• Interns are personally accountable for acquiring any required visa, protecting the complete interval of their internship. If needed, UNICEF will help the method by offering related paperwork such because the proof of internship.
• Interns might take as much as 2.5 days per 30 days off work for any purpose, together with for medical causes. The quota is cumulative over the period of the internship. The stipend will probably be decreased for any absence past this quota.
• Interns are usually not workers members. However this standing, interns shall observe all relevant guidelines, laws, directions and procedures and directives of UNICEF.
• Interns shall respect the impartiality and independence required of UNICEF and shall not search nor settle for directions concerning the providers carried out underneath the internship settlement from any Authorities or from any authority exterior to UNICEF.
• Except in any other case approved by the hiring workplace, interns might not talk at any time to the media or to any establishment, particular person, authorities or any exterior supply any data which has develop into recognized to them by causes of their affiliation with UNICEF. They could not use any such data with out the written authorization, and such data might by no means be used for private achieve. These obligations don’t lapse after the tip of the internship.
• Interns shall chorus from any conduct that might adversely replicate on UNICEF and never have interaction in any exercise which is incompatible with the goals and targets of UNICEF.
• There isn’t a expectation of employment on the finish of the internship. Interns are eligible to use for positions inside UNICEF. Break in service just isn’t required when making use of to positions at UNICEF.
• Interns are thought-about exterior candidates when making use of for workers positions inside UNICEF. The internship could also be thought-about as related work expertise if related to a put up.

Tentative begin date: 1 June 2024

Length: 1 June – 31 October 2024

To qualify as a/an [champion or advocate] for each little one you’ll…

• Be enrolled in a sophisticated/postgraduate college diploma (Grasp’s or greater) in Economics, Public Coverage, Social Sciences, Worldwide Relations, Political Science, or one other related technical subject or have graduated throughout the previous two years within the aforementioned fields.
• A related background in Economics, Public Coverage, Social Sciences, Worldwide Relations, Political Science, or one other related technical subject.
• Growing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset.

• Have glorious educational efficiency as demonstrated by current college or establishment data.

• Candidates should be a minimum of 18 years previous.
• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

• Wonderful interpersonal expertise and a focus to element.
• Potential to work as a part of the group, sharing data and coordinating effort throughout the group and the related nation places of work.
• Don’t have any quick family (e.g. father, mom, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF workplace; and don’t have any different family within the line of authority that the intern will report back to.​​​​​​​
• Extra consideration will probably be given for any previous experiences.
• Usually are not disqualified underneath the UNICEF Youngster Safeguarding Personnel Requirements (DHR/STANDARDS/2019/001), or as amended.

Easy methods to apply:

people are requested to submit the next paperwork no later than 9 April 2024.

• Utility letter
• CV
• Two letters of advice by the previous employer and/or college
• A duplicate of transcript

For each Youngster, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s core values of Dedication, Range and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with Individuals and Drive for Outcomes.

The technical competencies required for this put up are….

• Drive to realize outcomes for affect
• Suppose and act strategically
• Work Collaboratively with others

View our competency framework at

https://www.unicef.org/careers/media/1041/file/UNICEF%27s_Competency_Framework.pdf

UNICEF is dedicated to range 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 develop into part of the group.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on sexual exploitation and abuse, and on any form of harassment, together with sexual harassment, and discrimination. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, endure rigorous reference and background checks.

The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the complete interval of the contract.

Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking on the task. It doesn’t apply to chose candidates who will work remotely and are usually not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF in the course of their contracts.