Human Resources Online Internship

The United Nations University (UNU) is an international community of scholars engaged in policy-oriented research, capacity development and dissemination of knowledge, furthering the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. UNU’s mission is to contribute, through research and capacity building, to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems that are the concern of the United Nations and its Member States.

For the past four decades, United Nations University (UNU) has been a go-to think tank for impartial research on human survival, conflict prevention, sustainable development and welfare. With more than 400 researchers in 12 countries, UNU’s work spans the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, generating policy-relevant knowledge to effect positive global change. UNU maintains more than 200 collaborations with UN agencies and leading universities and research institutions across the globe.

About Office/Institute:

• The UNU Human Resources Office (HR-KL), as part of UNU Centre Administration, serves UNU’s Institutes and Offices in 16 locations around the world in the provision of human resources services. This includes HR policy and strategy, as well as business processes and systems and a core set of transactions in HR, including contract administration and global payroll. HR-KL is led by the Chief of Human Resources, who reports to the Director of Administration in Tokyo.

Responsibilities:

• Provides support to recruitment processes by posting vacancy announcements, organization of interviews and panels, collecting & filing required documents, drafting minutes/reports.
• Supports the onboarding and separation process.
• Provides support for the UNU mentorship programme and ensure effective communication and documentation.
• Assists in organizing HR training and meetings including notetaking.
• Supports on building HR knowledge library.
• Supports on building HR Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)s.
• Assists in tracking and monitoring mandatory training and ensuring timely filing of the certificates.
• Supports the HR team in achieving overall departmental objectives.
• Gathers, organizes, and updates relevant HR resources for easy accessibility.
• Promotes knowledge-sharing within the HR team.
• Undertakes other tasks of a similar nature as requested

Qualifications:

Education and certification:

• University studies in one of the following disciplines: Human Resources, Business Administration or other relevant subjects is required.
• Be in their final year of undergraduate study or enrolled in a graduate degree programme or is within the two-year post-graduation (maximum) from either a bachelors’, masters’ or PhD degree programme.

Required skills and experience:

• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent administrative and organizational skills and ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to collaborate and work with the team.
• Ability to work with MS Office Suite (MS Word MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, etc.)
• Creative thinking abilities.
• Detail-oriented.

Language Requirements:

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) in English are required.
• Working knowledge of another UN language is an advantage.

Source:  https://careers.unu.edu//o/online-internship-human-resources