Internship with Migration and Displacement Hub – PG, New York (Full-time, In person or remote)

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. 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 baby, in every single place, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means surrender. 

Goal:

Migration is an increasing world actuality, rising in scale and complexity over the previous couple of years. Between 2005 and 2015, the variety of baby refugees worldwide, greater than doubled from 4 million to 9 million. 1 in 2 refugees on the earth is a baby. 1 in 5 worldwide migrants is youthful than 20 years. Whereas migration bears acute safety dangers for a lot of youngsters, significantly if unaccompanied or undocumented, migration can be an empowering expertise for thousands and thousands of youngsters who migrate safely and usually inside their international locations or areas, enriching the societies they depart and be part of.

The UNICEF Migration Group based mostly within the Programme Group is recruiting an intern to assist throughout completely different programmatic areas in assist of the Headquarters’ features on coordination, data administration, coverage and programming steerage and partnerships.

Primarily based in New York, the Intern will assist the Information Administration Specialist and the Programme Specialist on world coordination of UNICEF motion throughout HQ, regional and nation workplaces, by supporting the coordination of the Hub’s capability constructing trainings and occasions,  UNICEF’s International Migration Practise Group, by working with Regional and Nation Workplaces to supply a month-to-month world publication, by supporting knowledge evaluation and visualization in addition to offering background analysis and evaluation upon demand – masking subjects akin to local weather change and displacement, options for inside displacement, and inclusion of migrant and displaced youngsters into nationwide well being, training, social safety and baby safety techniques. Particularly, the intern will assist within the design, planning and execution of a high-level world convening on climate-related displacement and youngsters to strategically place youngsters on the transfer inside the lobal local weather change discourse.  

The intern can even assist the Information Administration Specialist on data sharing, data administration and capability constructing to the advantage of UNICEF globally, and specifically to the PROSPECTS international locations[1]. This consists of enabling employees globally to seek out the best data on the proper time by means of the upkeep of the UNICEF Information Area on Kids on the Transfer, curating new knowledge, studies and programming insights, supporting UNICEF’s world Kids on the Transfer Capability Constructing initiative, and pro-actively determine alternatives for data sharing on migration. The intern shall be educated to offer assist to colleagues throughout Nation and Regional Workplaces, in addition to HQ in navigating and utilizing the Information Area. 

Important duties and tasks:

Throughout the delegated authority and the given organisational set-up, the incumbents could also be accountable for all or assigned areas of the next main duties:

1. Assist the design, planning and execution of high-level convening on local weather change and migrant and displaced youngsters and younger folks
2. Present analysis and coverage evaluation assist on local weather resilience, catastrophe threat discount and preparedness for climate-related displacement and mobility
3. Assist the implementation of UNICEF’s Institutional Plan on Inside Displacement in precedence international locations
4. Coordinate and curate the month-to-month International Migration Practise Group Publication, reaching over 750 employees members globally, and dealing carefully with colleagues in Regional and Nation Workplaces in getting the knowledge
5. Analyse migration knowledge coming in from UNICEF’s 190 Nation Workplaces and Presences, develop user-friendly methods to current and use knowledge and produce abstract evaluation and visuals
6. Assist with organizing and offering content material for International Migration Observe Group webinars, together with be aware taking.
7. Present general assist to workshops/trainings, together with managing administrative and logistical particulars, getting ready agenda and participant lists, briefing packets, managing associated correspondence and follow-up supplies. Liaise with different members of the crew as required.
8. Present background analysis on coverage and programmatic points round migration upon request
9. Assist data change on youngsters on the transfer inside UNICEF by means of upkeep of the interior Doc Repository and pro-actively figuring out alternatives for data sharing and change
10. Present assist to colleagues throughout Nation and Regional Workplaces, in addition to HQ in navigating and utilizing the Information Area, and PROSPECTS partnership share level website.
11. Assist the PROSPECTS Studying Agenda and help the KM and PME specialist with PROSPECTS knowledge administration and visualisation
12. Assist the convening of technical workshops centered on capability constructing on youngsters on the transfer, together with the Kids on the Transfer 101 course and associated deep dives
13.  Assist with MDH knowledge evaluation and visualization for company reporting.
14.  Present assist on further duties as required.

Please point out in your utility particular experiences and abilities associated to the above-mentioned duties.

Advantages to Intern:

Publicity to UNICEF’s work on youngsters on the transfer, steerage by means of weekly conferences with the assigned supervisor(s) and participation in distant studying alternatives. Receiving coaching on enhancing, sustaining and troubleshooting Information Domains.

The intern can even be supplied with a stipend of 1700 USD per thirty days (for a full-time internship, both based mostly in New York or distant[VD1] ).

{Qualifications}: (Training, Language, and many others):

• Training: At the moment enrolled in a college or a graduate college, or those that graduated inside the final two years. A specialisation in migration research is a powerful benefit.
• Expertise and/or data on migration and displacement is a requirement.
• Robust analysis and writing abilities required.
• Flexibility to work as a part of a dynamic crew and excessive diploma of crew spirit required.
• Accessible for work full-time for six months (26 weeks). This isn’t a summer time internship choice.
• Glorious data of MS Workplace is required.

As well as,

• Expertise with knowledge evaluation and visualisation is a bonus, and willingness to be taught a minimal requirement.
• Expertise working with sustaining Sharepoints/Web sites is a powerful benefit, and a willingness to be taught a minimal requirement.

Required paperwork

• Letter of verification from the school or college that the intern is at present enrolled in an undergraduate college and has accomplished at the very least two years of full-time research at a college or equal establishment in the direction of the completion of an undergraduate diploma (if the candidate is eighteen years previous, this replaces the two-year bachelor’s completion requirement); or, Graduate Diploma Program (i.e., Grasp’s, PhD).  It also needs to state the anticipated commencement date.  Latest graduates are allowed till 2 years after diploma completion.
• Copy of their most up-to-date official transcript displaying wonderful educational efficiency
• Copy of Identification Card (ID)
• One letter of signed advice on letterhead or from skilled electronic mail deal with
• Certification of Medical health insurance protection legitimate for the entire internship period

Language Necessities: 

Fluency in written and spoken English is crucial. Different languages, particularly Arabic or Spanish, are an asset.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to including everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or another private attribute.

We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, a variety of advantages to our employees, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination.

UNICEF is dedicated to selling the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules.

Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer further data to conduct a background examine.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. 

Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which shall be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may additionally be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid).

Authorities staff which might be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF.

UNICEF reserves the best to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or needed inoculation necessities should not met, inside an affordable interval for any cause.