UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
The Programme Division (PD) sets the standards, assures the quality of program design, and provides guidance to country level program work of UN Women, as well as supports the coordination role of UN Women at regional and country level. It supports the effective use of results based management and reporting across the organization. It also manages global Trust funds, and Global Programs, and it provides technical capacity to countries on request, including a humanitarian response capacity.
The Programme Team makes possible the oversight function of the Programme Directorate for UN Women’s programmes and activities in the field. It supports corporate planning and the oversight of planning processes. It leads UN Women’s corporate analysis of developments and trends at the country and regional level, ensuring UN Women’s senior management receives timely advice and recommendations. It supports UN Women’s field based presences, specifically Regional Offices including on operational matters, and connects them appropriately to other parts of headquarters as required. The Programme Team’s members represent UN Women in interagency fora, and provide support to UN Women normative work in intergovernmental processes, as well as contributing to resource mobilization and partnership building more broadly at headquarters level.
Up-to-date, high quality situation analyses on the overall political and socio-economic context, gender equality and UN Women engagement and strategic partnerships at country and regional level are an essential tool for facilitation of the oversight and representational functions of the Programme Division. To this end, UN Women is seeking to engage highly motivated interns, whom, under the general supervision of the Programme Adviser for Africa, will support the Programme Team (Africa) to develop and maintain a set of key briefs and databases on countries, topics and partners relevant to UN Women work in Africa.
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Duties and Responsibilities:
Assist the Programme Team (Africa) in developing in-depth Master Briefs (country briefs) for a selection of priority African countries. These briefs include descriptions of areas including: the political situation, socio-economic situation, UN Women’s assistance and key programme & management issues, UN missions, etc. This also includes:
- Researching background data and information, gender related, economic and other type of data from major databases and data provider services, academic literature and official reports from national and multilateral sources on a range of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment issues, working papers, op-eds, and policy statements relevant to Africa;
- Maintaining a database of bios of heads of states, ministers of gender, other key government officials and the permanent representatives for the UN;
- Develop a substantive analysis related to an issue of high priority for UN Women and gender equality and women’s empowerment in the Africa region. This would entail analyzing the work of UN Women Country Offices in a specific high priority area, the issues, lessons learned, challenges and way forward/recommendations.
Other supplementary responsibilities may include:
- Support and coordinate with the Programme Specialists in writing briefs and preparing documents for the Programme Team (Africa) as required;
- Assist the Programme Specialists in reorganising and maintaining the knowledge management platforms for the Programme Team (Africa);
- Maintain and update the collection of bios of the main leadership of countries for a selection of countries to complement the briefs
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Core Values and Guiding Principles:
Integrity:
- Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.
Professionalism:
- Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work.
Cultural sensitivity and valuing diversity:
- Demonstrate an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff;
- Demonstrate an international outlook, appreciating difference in values and learning from cultural diversity.
Competencies:Writing skills:
- Demonstrates strong writing skills, particularly the ability to present persuasive, coherent and well-founded arguments;
- Has ability to write in style that is accessible to a broad audience of policymakers, academics and activists.
Work ethics:
- Reliably takes action to honor commitments; takes international outlook in decision-making.
Intellectual Qualities:
- Possesses good grasp of development policy issues;
- Demonstrates analytical rigor, intellectual creativity and contributes original ideas;
- Maintains open-minded attitude towards new ideas.
Working in teams:
- Contributes to team spirit, inspires and motivates staff and colleagues at all levels; demonstrates willingness to integrate ideas of others into own thinking;
- Remains composed under stress; manages moods and creates positive attitude in the team even in times of crisis.
Results Orientation in Process:
- Demonstrates drive to achieve results in a timely manner and to seek and find solutions to any problems encountered;
- Makes efficient use of available resources;
- Demonstrates ability to multitask;
- Demonstrates drive to achieve results in a timely manner.
Communication Skills:
- Has ability to communicate clearly and persuasively;
- Demonstrates ability to build consensus and expresses own ideas openly and frankly without jeopardizing rapport with colleagues.
Innovation and Marketing of New Approaches:
- Generates new ideas, seeks new approaches and introduces and promotes them in the workplace.
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Education:
- Undertaking a Masters in political sciences, economics, gender related studies, international development, public policy, or related areas.
Experience:
- Prior research experience in public policy related issues is preferred;
- Professional work experience that combines research and practice is valued;
- Ability to use relevant ICT tools to produce professional presentations and briefs .
Language:
- Proven excellence in written and oral communications skills in English and French is a requirement for this position.
Application:
- Interns are not financially remunerated by UN Women;
- Interested candidates should send an email to ngone.dianka@unwomen.org no later than 14 March 2014.
- In your application, please (i) state in one paragraph why you would like to be considered for the internship, and (ii) indicate your preferred start and end date, as well as how many days/hours you are available within that period (internships generally last between six weeks and six months, but can be exceptionally extended to nine months).
- Also, please attach your most recent CV and a copy of a public policy related research paper (or similar paper) you have written for your coursework (or previous job).
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