Protection Internship

The Protection Intern supports the team’s effort in engaging in advocacy, training, and strengthening capacity of the national refugee and asylum system. The intern also supports monitoring protection standards, operational procedures and practices in protection delivery in line with international standards.

The intern selected to work in this office are expected to show adaptability, flexibility, openness, team spirit, eagerness to learn and to contribute

Duties and Responsibilities 

Under the supervision of UNHCR Korea Protection Team, Protection Intern supports:

• • Provision of information to forcibly displaced and stateless people: support in providing information to forcibly displaced and stateless people via telephone calls, in-person counselling and emails
• • Support in communication with various stakeholders such as NGOs and government counterparts.
• • Researching: conduct research on various protection-related information including Country of Origin Information (COIs)
• • Translations: UNHCR documents, news articles, information for Persons under UNHCR’s Mandate
• • Provide support for capacity-building training for government officers conducting Refugee Status Determination
• • Participation in meetings and taking meeting notes
• • Accompanying staff members to meetings and taking notes and/or interpreting
• Further to the tasks mentioned above, other tasks may also be added, according to interest and capability of the intern. The work will be distributed according to the intern’s capability and the office’s workload as needed.

Essential minimum qualifications required:

In order to be considered for an internship, candidates must meet 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 UNESCO; and
• • Have completed at least two years of undergraduate studies in a field relevant or of interest to the work of UNHCR

Source:  https://unhcr.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Seoul-Korea-Republic-of/Protection-Intern_JR2552455