International Intern Opportunity at UNICEF: Adolescent Girls Programming Intern, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (Nepal)
International Intern Opportunity at UNICEF: Adolescent Girls Programming Intern, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (Nepal)
The candidate must be pursuing or have recently graduated with a University Degree in gender studies, social development or related fields.
International Intern Opportunity at UNICEF: Adolescent Girls Programming Intern, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (Nepal)
UNICEF is committed to promoting gender equality – across all sectors. UNICEF made several ambitious South Asia is home to more adolescents – nearly 350 million – than any other region. At the crossroads between childhood and adulthood, adolescents typically face many changes and uncertainties in their lives. Despite the large young demographic, adolescents especially girls in South Asia are still largely invisible and voiceless. Although various COs have advanced adolescent voice and participation through various adolescents led platforms, adolescents especially girls continue to face tremendous barriers to accessing the information, services, and support they need to achieve their agency, voice and full potential. Girls tend to face more limitations on their ability to move freely and to make decisions affecting their work, education, marriage, Health and social relationships. These constraints deny them the ability to make informed decisions and choices for themselves, to care for their health and bodily autonomy, and to be treated as equals.
Adolescent girls continue to face greater risk of violence and its wide-ranging consequences, and are significantly more likely to marry before the age of 18 than their male peers. In the informal sector the chances of them being exploited are more as they are likely to be paid low wages, progress less and may face increased gender-based violence.
UNICEF South Asia developed an adolescent girl framework 2022-25 to accelerate programming and reach for girls especially the marginalized, through investment in intentional interventions for girls’ and multi-sectoral and integrated programs focusing on their overall empowerment and well-being for holistic development.
UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) requires an intern to join and support the Gender team in ROSA to accelerate results for girls.The objective of this internship is to support the Gender section in ROSA and South Asia Region (SAR) country offices (COs) in adolescent girls programming and knowledge management.
Summary of key functions/accountabilities:
Working directly under the supervision of the Gender Advisor and in close collaboration with the overall ROSA Gender team, the intern will be responsible for the following general/specific tasks:
- Support update mapping exercise of Adolescent girls programming in South Asia
- Support the team in generating reports on Adolescent girls
- Support the team in setting up cross sectoral and CO related meetings
- Work with the team to support on knowledge management and documentation of Human interesting stories on Adolescent girls
- Support the team for any internal cross-sector collaboration initiative, event, workshop, or meeting that will occur in the organization.
- Perform any other tasks as required by the supervisor and the team.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- The candidate must be pursuing or have recently graduated with a University Degree in gender studies, social development or related fields.
- Speaks and writes clearly and effectively. Listens to others, correctly interprets messages from others and responds appropriately. Asks questions to clarify and exhibits interest in having two-way communication. Tailors language, tone, style and format to match the audience.
- Demonstrates openness in sharing information and keeping people informed.
- Be fully computer literate in standard software applications. (Sharepoint experience an asset)
- Have good analytical skills and possess good report writing skills.
- Have a demonstrated ability to successfully interact with individuals of different cultural backgrounds and beliefs, which include willingness to try and understand and be tolerant of differing opinions and views.
- Prior experience in the work environment of an international agency, NGOs, UN, or international institutions would be desirable.
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
Duration: 6 months
Insurance:
• UNICEF accepts no responsibility for costs or fatality arising from illness or accidents incurred during the internship; Therefore, the intern must have adequate medical insurance.
• Applicants for internship must show proof of valid medical and life/accident insurance for the duty station for which they will work.
Learning Opportunities for the Intern:
• General understanding of the work and mission of UNICEF WASH in South Asia.
• Insight and hands-on experience in UNICEF WASH Knowledge Management activities and planning.
• Become more familiar with working in a United Nations / international organization and in a multicultural environment.
• Improved analytical and writing skills ie capture of lessons learned (case studies and newsletter) as well as acquired coordination skills in liaison with multiple country offices
Intern Status within UNICEF:
• Interns are considered free personnel and as such they are not staff members.
• Although not considered a staff member of UNICEF, the intern shall be subject to the authority of the Executive Director and the authority delegated by her to the Director and Heads of Offices. Interns are not entitled to the privileges and immunities accorded by member states to UNICEF’s officials and staff members.
• Interns may not be sought or accepted as substitutes for staff to be recruited against authorized posts.
• Interns may not represent UNICEF in any official capacity.
• An accrual of 2.5 days per month to be used as annual leave, emergency leave, or uncertified sick leave.
Other Relevant Information
• The intern will work full-time. The selected candidate will be governed by and subject to UNICEF’s General Terms and Conditions for interns.
• As an intern, you will respect the confidentiality of information that you collect or are exposed to at UNICEF. No reports or papers may be published based on information obtained from UNICEF without explicit written authorization by the Head of Office or Division Director.
• The UNICEF internship program is not connected with employment and there is no expectation of such. Interns cannot apply for posts advertised internally to UNICEF staff during the period of internship.
UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
(3) Drive to achieve results for impact
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others.
DEADLINE: 14 December, 2023
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