Work Location

In-person; Remote; or Hybrid

Expected duration

6 months

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide policy analysis for the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), collaborating across the different areas of work within the Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) and supporting coordination efforts with relevant divisions of the Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) and with United Nations Agencies. • Help monitor, identify and analyze global trends related to sustainable development, with focus on governance, peace and security. • Support the preparation of analytical reports, papers, talking points, background notes, correspondences, key messages, video remarks, interviews, and daily briefs. • Support the preparation of meetings, events, summits, talks, and visits for senior officials. • Support analysis, initiatives, forums and engagements on humanitarian, peace and development matters. • Contribute to monitoring, analysis and engagement on priority regions, countries, and topics, including the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, the Great Lakes Region, Haiti, and Afghanistan; the collaboration with the African Union; and climate security and advancing development in complex settings. • Contribute to aspects of the United Nations reform, particularly those that pertain to cross-pillar collaboration and coherence. Please indicate in your Motivation Statement, if you have relevant experience in other key areas of the 2030 Agenda, such as Financing for Development; Environment and Climate; Gender; Disability Inclusion; private sector engagement; health; and food systems.

Qualifications/special skills

Applicants to the United Nations Internship Programme must at the time of application meet one of the following requirements: 1) Be enrolled in, or have completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent or higher such as Master”s degree or equivalent, Ph.D. or post-graduate degree). 2) Be enrolled in, or have completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor”s level or equivalent). 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. Knowledge of standard software applications, especially MS Word, MS PowerPoint, other presentation and visualization software and MS Teams, is desirable. Knowledge in report editing and drafting news articles and/or social media posts is desirable. Knowledge in design surveys and polls is desirable.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the position advertised, fluency in English is required.

Additional Information

Not available.

Intern Specific text

Interns are not financially remunerated by the United Nations. Costs and arrangements for travel, visas, accommodation and living expenses are the responsibility of interns or their sponsoring institutions. Interns who are not citizens or permanent residents of the country where the internship is undertaken, may be required to obtain the appropriate visa and work/employment authorization. Successful candidates should discuss their specific visa requirements before accepting the internship offer.

No Fee

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.