Communication and User Experience Design

In person in New York or remote, full time or part time modalities would be considered.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) is leading the digital transformation of the Organization to enable a better, safer, more sustainable future through secure, reliable, and innovative technology solutions.

• OICT is committed to achieving 50/50 gender balance and geographical diversity in its staff, and female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for this position. OICT supports the principles of work-life balance and flexible work arrangements.
• The Policy, Strategy and Governance Division enables the UN Secretariat to deliver effectively on its mandate through responsible and innovative use of data, information and technology. We provide expertise in information technology to enable, protect and advance the work of the UN. This internship position is located in the Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT), under the Policy, Strategy and Governance Division.
• The internship is for two months with an opportunity for extension up to six months, depending on the needs of the Office. Interns work for up to five days per week (35 hours) under the supervision of an Information Management Officer. The internship is UNPAID and can either be full-time or part-time. Responsibilities Under the overall supervision of the Chief or her designated officer, working closely with all personnel who are generating content in different thematic streams of work, the Intern will apply user-centered design approach to enhance the Division’s web presence to both internal and external audience.

The tasks include:

• Review the content presented on the current internal and public websites as well as the planned streams of work and propose a streamlined and coherent web presence strategy for the Division.
• Propose and create a set of coherent web presence templates that could be scaled up and re-used for growing content streams in the future.
• Prepare and present/ Research a streamlined approach to generate and maintain data-driven web content.
• Liaising with the OICT Communication Team to implement the proposed strategy. Knowledge transfer to designated person in the team before the end of the internship period. Dependent on the individual’s background, skillset and the internship period, the intern could also be assigned with the following responsibilities:
• Assist in various data analytics and service provisioning projects, services, and testing.
• Assist in preparation of documentations and presentations for internal and external communication purpose.
• Assist in enhancement of the team performance reporting tool(s) and refining the data model.
• Contribute creative ideas to brainstorming sessions to help the teams’ outreach efforts.

Qualifications/special skills

• Education: To qualify for an internship by the United Nations Headquarters Internship Programme, the following conditions must be met: Applicants must meet one of the following requirements:
• Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher);
• Be enrolled in the FINAL academic year of a university degree programme (minimum Bachelor’s level or equivalent); or No working experience is required to apply for the United Nations Internship Programme. Your training, education, advance course work or skills should benefit the United Nations during your internship. Potential candidates will be contacted by the hiring manager directly for further consideration.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this position advertised, fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable.

Source: https://careers.un.org/jobSearchDescription/234672?language=en