Education Intern for Adolescent Skills Development Project (Hybrid)

Position description

Education is UNICEF China’s key programme area in the Country Programme 2021-2025, aiming to ensure that more disadvantaged and vulnerable children in China are adequately prepared to start school and are learning and acquiring skills in an inclusive, healthy and safe environment. The programme will employ a combination of upstream work to inform and shape policies, guidelines and curriculum, with downstream work to support uptake of national policies and reforms, and to co-create scalable models, building the skills of teachers and students, improve school and kindergarten environments, and demonstrate child-friendly teaching and learning, and promote alternative learning pathways for out-of-school adolescents. 

How can you make a difference?

You will have opportunities to contribute to UNICEF China’s work on basic education and adolescent programmes, especially the TVET Adolescent Life Skills Development project, Social and Emotional Learning Project, Sports for Development project, out-of-school adolescents initiatives. Main activities include data collection and analysis, document editing and compiling, literature review, policy research, translation, capacity building activity and events delivery support, human-interest-story documentation and campaign tasks, etc.

Internship Conditions

• Modality:(√) Fulltime or ( ) part time
• Tentative start date: 3 March 2025
• Duration: 26 weeks
• Venue: home-based online working (coming to the office based on requirements and the availability of seats in the office)

Travel

( ) No travel involved

( √ ) Travel involved

To qualify as an UNICEF intern, or a champion for every child, you will…

• Be enrolled in a postgraduate degree programme or freshly completed a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) and will join a postgraduate programme, majoring in education, public management, social policy, psychology or other relevant subjects.

• Demonstrate experience and ability in getting involved in education development, adolescent development, participation and advocacy, policy research and analysis, as well as project coordination;
• Have strong academic performance as demonstrated by recent university or institution records, or, if not available, a reference letter from an academic supervisor;
• Be fluent in English and Chinese (oral and written);
• Have a good sense of teamwork, adaptability and commitment to assigned tasks;
• Have no immediate relatives working in any UNICEF offices.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. 

Advertised: 19 Feb 2025 China Standard Time
Deadline: 26 Feb 2025 China Standard Time

Application instructions

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