Programme Internship

Under the supervision of the Operations Officer, the Programme Intern will support the unit in its work by facilitating coordination with other teams within UNHCR and with its partner organizations and contribute to complex processes for planning, implementing, monitoring and reporting on the Office’s interventions across the country.

The ideal candidate will be curious, proactive and committed to learning. Through good management of time and tasks, s/he will contribute to UNHCR and its partners’ work by ensuring resources are allocated according to needs and capacities; monitoring, including directly in the field in the Sofia region, progress towards objectives and refugees’ views of the interventions, and establishing internal and external workflows to ensure resources are carefully managed.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Provide administrative assistance and support in routine services and activities within the Ops/Programme unit.
• Assist in organizing, documenting and coordinating processes related to the selection and management of partners and direct implementation activities, ensuring due diligence to support successful implementation.
• Support the annual planning, implementation and reporting cycle.
• Guided by the MFT approach, contribute to monitoring activities implemented through partnerships and those under direct implementation in line with the Programme Handbook and other programming regulations.
• Use UNHCR’s corporate tools (e.g. COMPASS, PROMS, CloudERP) to provide inputs and support activities related to planning, budgeting, implementation and reporting, generating data for evidence-based programmatic decisions and analysis.
• Actively contribute to UNHCR’s programming of community of practice and to the improvement of programming tools and processes.

Minimum qualifications required:

In order to be considered for an internship, candidates must meet the following eligibility criteria:

• Be either a recent graduate (having completed their studies within two years of applying) or a current student in a graduate/undergraduate school programme from a university or higher education facility accredited by IAU/UNESCO; and
• Have completed at least two years of undergraduate studies in a field relevant or of interest to the work of UNHCR.
• Fluency in Bulgarian and English.

Source: https://unhcr.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Sofia-Bulgaria/Programme-Intern_JR2445016