UNCTAD Internship – Communications and External Relations, Office of the Secretary-General

Work Location

Geneva

Anticipated period

3 months

Duties and Tasks

The place is within the United Nations Convention for Commerce and Improvement (UNCTAD). The internship is within the Workplace of the Secretary Common of UNCTAD, extra particularly within the Communications and Exterior Relations Unit (CER). The Internship Programme is unpaid and full-time, i.e., an intern is predicted to work 5 days per week (40 hours). The internship is hybrid. To work remotely the applicant shall have full entry to a pc with a contemporary browser through which to run the newest model of Workplace 365 purposes that can permit him/her to carry out the duties inside the scope of the internship. The pc should have primary IT safety finest practices carried out. At a minimal, the applicant ought to have: • Put in on his/her pc the newest model of the Microsoft Home windows working system, software program and safety updates as quickly as they’re issued. • Enabled the built-in software program firewall that comes with the working software program of the pc. • Enabled the password supervisor for the creation of sturdy passwords and to safe entry to all UNCTAD/UN-related sources. For in-person internships, interns should have a legitimate visa. All prices of journey, lodging, medical insurance coverage and dwelling bills have to be coated by the intern. The place is situated in Geneva, Switzerland within the Communications and Exterior Relations Unit (CER)The internship will tentatively begin as quickly as attainable for an preliminary interval of three months, below the supervision of Ms. Amalia Navarro, Chief of CER. The intern will carry out the next features: The intern will help CER with the group of the UNCTAD’s sixtieth anniversary, extra particularly: Present administrative assist to the CER workforce Consolidate and kind knowledge Help within the preparation of occasions Present assist to conferences and conferences Carry out different associated work as required Extra typically, interns shall: 1. Observe all relevant guidelines, rules, directions, procedures and directives of the Group however their standing as described in part 4 of the UN Internship Programme Administrative Directions ST/AI/2000/9 & ST/AI/2005/11. 2. Present the receiving departments/workplaces with a replica of all supplies ready by them in the course of the internship. The UN shall be entitled to all property rights, together with however not restricted to patents, copyrights and emblems, with regard to materials which bears a direct relation to or is made in consequence of, the companies supplied below the internship. On the request of the UN, the interns shall help in securing such property rights and transferring them to the UN in compliance with the necessities of the relevant legislation. 3. Respect the impartiality and independence required of the UN and of the receiving division/workplace and shall not search or settle for directions relating to the companies carried out below the internship settlement from any Authorities or from any authority exterior to the UN. 4. Until in any other case approved by the suitable official within the receiving division/workplace, they might not talk at any time to the media or to any establishment, particular person, Authorities or some other exterior supply any data which has change into identified to them by purpose of their affiliation with the UN or the receiving division/workplace, that they know or must have identified has not been made public. They could not use any such data with out the written authorization of the suitable official, and such data could by no means be used for private acquire. These obligations additionally apply after the tip of the internship with the UN. 5. Chorus from any conduct that might adversely mirror on the UN or on the receiving division/workplace and won’t have interaction in any exercise which is incompatible with the goals and targets of the UN.

{Qualifications}/particular abilities

The United Nations internship programme is meant to show college students or current graduates to the United Nations as a way to improve their academic expertise and to assist them to realize expertise within the work of the Group. Subsequently, candidates to the programme should on the time of software meet one of many following necessities: (a) Be enrolled in, or have accomplished, a graduate faculty programme (second college diploma or equal, or greater); or, (b) Be enrolled in, or have accomplished, the ultimate tutorial yr of a primary college diploma programme (minimal bachelor’s stage or equal). Furthermore, interns ought to: • Ought to be pc literate in commonplace software program purposes; • Have a demonstrated eager curiosity within the work of the United Nations and have a private dedication to the beliefs of the Constitution; • Have a demonstrated capacity to efficiently work together with people of various cultural backgrounds and beliefs, which incorporates willingness to grasp and be tolerant of differing opinions and views. No working expertise is required to use for the United Nations Internship Programme. Your coaching, training, advance course work or abilities ought to profit the United Nations throughout your internship. Candidates to the UN Internship Programme will not be required to have skilled work expertise. Nevertheless, a subject 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 ultimate 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 appliance. Please be aware that you’ll have to present an official certificates at a later stage.

Languages

Fluency in oral and written English is required. The data of one other official United Nations language is fascinating.

Further Data

ASSESSMENT: Candidates might be assessed based mostly on their Personel Historical past Profiles (PHP). Particular person interviews could also be performed for additional evaluation. A whole on-line software (Cowl Notice and Private Historical past profile) is required. Incomplete purposes is not going to be reviewed. The duvet Notice should embody: – Title of diploma. – Commencement date (when will you be graduating from the programme, if not but graduated). – Listing the IT abilities and programmes that you’re proficient in. – Clarify why you’re the finest candidate for the internship place. In your Private Historical past Profile, you should definitely embody all previous work expertise, if any; IT abilities and three (3) references. As a result of excessive quantity of purposes acquired, ONLY profitable candidates might be contacted. SPECIAL NOTICE: This profile is for the only objective of the Internship Programme of the United Nations Convention for Commerce and Improvement. There must be no expectation of employment inside the UN after the internship. Interns will not be eligible to use for, or be appointed to, positions on the skilled stage and above carrying worldwide recruitment standing within the Secretariat for a interval of six months following the tip of their internship. Candidates who’re kids or siblings of a employees member will not be eligible to use for an internship on the United Nations. Candidates who’re in any other case associated to a employees member could also be engaged as interns, supplied that they’re neither assigned to the identical work unit as such. employees member nor positioned below the direct or oblique supervision of such employees member.

Intern Particular textual content

Interns will not be financially remunerated by the United Nations. Prices and preparations for journey, visas, lodging and dwelling bills are the accountability of interns or their sponsoring establishments. Interns who will not be 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 Charge

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.