Social Policy Internship

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Description

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This internship is to provide Tertiary students with an opportunity to put into practice the skills they have learned while in the university.  By the end of the programme, students should have an opportunity to enhance those skills, obtain the perspective of a work environment and benefit from a mentor or supervisor’s experience and advice.

Under the guidance and direct supervision of the Chief Social Policy, the intern will in general be responsible for supporting stages of social policy programming and related advocacy from strategic planning to the formulation of delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This will include programmes aimed at improving public policies to reduce child poverty; social protection coverage and impact on children.

Purpose:

• The purpose of this internship is to support the activities of the social policy section and provide selected candidates with exposure to our programme, the working environment of a multilateral organization, and a better understanding of management at the executive level.

Expected Scope of Work:

The intern will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Participate in the development of the section’s annual work plan with the social policy team. Set priorities and targets and monitor work progress to ensure results are achieved according to schedule and performance standards
• Oversees the collection, analysis, and user-friendly presentation of data on multidimensional and monetary child poverty, including strengthening national capacity to collect routinely, report, and use data for policy decision-making.
• Provides timely, regular data-driven analysis for effective prioritization, planning, and development; facilitates results-based management for planning, adjusting, and scaling-up specific social policy initiatives to reduce child poverty.
• Analyzes the macroeconomic context and its impact on social development, emerging issues,
• and social policy concerns, as well as implications for children, and proposes and promotes appropriate responses in respect of such issues and concerns, including government resource allocation policies and the effect of social welfare policies on the rights of children.
• Collaborates with the central and local authorities to strengthen capacity on quality data collection, analysis for policy development, planning, implementation, coordination, and monitoring of essential social services, with emphasis on community participation and accountability.
• Ensures effective and efficient planning, management, coordination, monitoring, and evaluation of the country programme. Ensures that the social planning project enhances policy dialogue, planning, supervision, technical advice, management, training, research, and support; and that the monitoring and evaluation component strengthens monitoring and evaluation of the social sectors and provides support to sectoral and decentralized information systems.
• Identifies policy options for improved domestic financing of child-sensitive social protection interventions. 

To be considered for an internship with UNICEF, applicants should meet the following requirements:

• Be enrolled in a degree programme in an undergraduate, or graduate school, or be a recent graduate in Economics, Demographic, Statistics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, or another relevant technical field.
• Be proficient in UNICEF’s working languages: English and French.
• Have strong academic performance as demonstrated by recent university or institution records or, if not available, a reference letter from an academic supervisor.
• Have no immediate relatives (e.g. father, mother, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF office.
• Are not disqualified under the UNICEF Child Safeguarding Personnel Standards (DHR/STANDARDS/2019/001), or as amended.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of e-learning authoring tools is an asset
• Eligible applicants must be Non-Cameroon Nationals

Required Documents:

• Letter of enrollment or certificate from the college or university that the intern is currently enrolled in an undergraduate school or has completed at least two years of full-time studies at a university or equivalent institution It should also state the expected graduation date.
• Recent graduates are allowed until 2 years after degree completion.
• Copy of their most recent official transcript showing excellent academic performance.
• Copy of Identification Card (ID) or Passport.

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