Internship for Partnerships and Resource Mobilization Section of UNICEF Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia
Job no: 577315
Position kind: Internship
Location: Belgium
Division/Equivalent: CEE/CIS
School/Unit: Regional Services Div (ECAR), Geneva
Department/Office: ECARO, O/P Brussels
Categories: Partnerships
UNICEF works in some of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 nations and territories, we work for each little one, all over the place, day by day, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means hand over.
For each little one, empowerment
The elementary mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each little one, all over the place, in all the pieces the group does — in packages, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing probably the most deprived and excluded youngsters and households, interprets this dedication to youngsters’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness signifies that all youngsters have a possibility to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any little one has an unequal probability in life — in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is rising proof that investing within the well being, training and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all youngsters the chance to satisfy their potential but in addition will result in sustained development and stability of nations. This is why the deal with fairness is so very important. It accelerates progress in direction of realizing the human rights of all youngsters, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, whereas additionally supporting the equitable improvement of nations.
UNICEF and the European Union share a standard dedication to the conclusion of the rights of each little one globally. The EU Child Rights Strategy, formally often known as the “EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child,” is a complete framework launched by the European Commission in 2021 to guard and promote youngsters’s rights throughout the European Union and past. This technique aligns with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and seeks to create safer, extra inclusive, and supportive environments for youngsters each inside and exterior the EU.
How are you able to make a distinction?
Under the supervision and steerage of the Brussels-based Partnerships Specialist ECARO, accountable for supporting strategic positioning of UNICEF within the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) area in direction of to European Commission and the European Parliament.
UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional workplace ( ECARO [VOS1] ) is in cost of the relations with the EU establishments for the Regional workplace and Country workplaces and [VOS2] works to prioritize youngsters and UNICEF’s priorities in Europe and Central Asia throughout EU’s insurance policies, laws and programmes.
Working with the UNICEF ECARO Regional workplace and partnership crew members outposted in Brussels, the intern may have the chance to realize expertise about UNICEF’s work for youngsters in Europe and Central Asia and assist the workplace in its partnership and strategic engagement with the EU establishments. Under the respective supervisor the intern will immediately assist the crew in partnership improvement (together with info gathering, information evaluation and data administration), advocacy for youngsters’s rights and useful resource mobilization.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Monitor related developments and tendencies concerning EU financing and establish alternatives within the area inside and throughout the development-humanitarian nexus.
- Support strategic engagement and partnership improvement in key programmatic and thematic precedence areas, specifically on reforms on little one poverty, training, youngsters on the transfer.
- Support the preparation and group of key excessive stage/strategic occasions and missions, capability constructing webinars and Information classes and the place relevant help with the preparation of background supplies and minutes.
- Assist with the updating of key data administration merchandise (EU accomplice profile and intranet web page, UNISON).
- Support information gathering and evaluation associated to the related sections and UNICEF Europe and Central Asia’s key priorities.
- Assist in coverage advocacy to affect the EU establishments and EU Member States, significantly in relation to the brand new EU political cycle.
To qualify as an advocate for each little one you’ll have…
Minimum Requirements
- Be not less than 18 years outdated.
- Be a current graduate (i.e. graduated inside the previous two years) holding an Advance University diploma (Master’s or PhD) in human rights, political science, EU research worldwide improvement, humanitarian help, or associated subject
- Have wonderful tutorial efficiency as demonstrated by current college information
- The incumbent have to be in place of a legitimate work/residence allow which authorizes to dwell and work in Belgium for all the period of the internship. UNICEF just isn’t accountable for acquiring a visa or a residency allow.
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Have no speedy kinfolk (e.g., father, mom, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF workplace; and don’t have any different kinfolk within the line of authority that the intern will report back to.
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- Excellent command of oral and written English. Knowledge of French and/or one other EU language is an asset.
- Valid medical health insurance protecting the complete internship interval, to carry out the duties of the contract for all the interval of the contract.
- Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking over the task.
Qualifications, Skills and Competencies Required
- Familiarity with the functioning of the EU Institutions; expertise associated to the European Institutions is a powerful asset.
- Proven capacity to synthesize info and talk it merely and successfully. Strong writing, analysis, and analytical abilities.
- Genuine curiosity in and primary data of youngsters’s rights; understanding of UNICEF’s mandate is important.
- Ability to function in a diplomatic surroundings, utilizing tact and judgement. Ability to work in a world and multicultural surroundings.
- Knowledge of workplace pc techniques (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and web analysis.
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the pieces we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
UNICEF competencies required for this put up are… (1) Builds and maintains partnerships(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness(3)Drive to realize outcomes for impression(4)Innovates and embraces change(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity(6)Thinks and acts strategically(7)Works collaboratively with others.
During the recruitment course of, we take a look at candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges: competency framework right here.
Conditions of service:
Duration: 6 months with approximate begin in January 2025
Location/Duty Station: Brussels, Belgium
Section/Team: Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation
Modality: Full-time internship (Home-based and 50 % in particular person).
Mandatory Courses: Selected intern might be requested to finish on-line necessary programs previous to graduation of the internship.
Stipend: In accordance with UNICEF’s tips, chosen intern might be supplied a month-to-month stipend to cowl the period of the candidate’s internship based mostly on the task location. There is not any expectancy of employment on the finish of the internship.
Supervision: The intern will profit from ongoing supervision, steerage and teaching by their speedy supervisor all through the six-month internship; and from these capability constructing actions that occur to be organized through the internship.
Learning: A studying and improvement plan might be agreed with the intern, aiming at enhancing and updating data of EU establishments and insurance policies; enhancing data on little one rights; enhancing understanding of UNICEF’s actions, insurance policies and group; and enhancing primary group and communication abilities.
Insurance: Interns are required to display a proof of medical and accident insurance coverage previous to the start of the internship with the Brussels Officer. Coverage needs to be legitimate for all the period of the internship. UNICEF just isn’t accountable for acquiring well being/accident insurance coverage for the incumbent.
Interns are lined for any service-incurred damage, sickness or demise below the UNICEF process on Malicious Acts Insurance Policy (DHR/PROCEDURE/2019/002) or as amended.
Leave: Selected intern might take as much as 2.5 days per 30 days off work for any purpose, together with for medical causes. The stipend might be diminished for any absence past this quota. The quota is cumulative over the period of the internship, however there might be no compensation or carry-over to a different appointment for unused go away days on the finish of the internship.
How to apply
- Apply on-line and duly full on-line software along with your training and employment historical past .
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Upload the next paperwork:
- Letter of motivation
- Copy of your diploma or a Letter of verification from the school or college that the intern has accomplished an Advance Graduate Degree Programme (i.e., Master’s, PhD). It ought to state the commencement date. Recent graduates are allowed till 2 years after diploma completion.
- Copy of your most up-to-date official transcript exhibiting wonderful tutorial efficiency.
- One letter of signed suggestion on letterhead or from skilled e mail tackle.
Candidates with lacking paperwork is not going to be thought-about.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should replicate the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF household is dedicated to incorporate everybody, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or another private attribute. We provide a variety of advantages to our workers, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks and affordable lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of versatile working preparations. UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of tutorial credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background test.
Remarks:
Tentative begin date: 6 January 2025 for 6 months (26 weeks). An internship could also be terminated by both social gathering, with a discover interval of not less than two weeks.
This internship is on the market solely to candidates who can legally reside in Belgium for the complete period of the internship.
Only shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.
If you have an interest in enterprise an internship at UNICEF, please full the web software type. No e mail functions might be accepted. For extra on internship at UNICEF, observe this hyperlink: https://www.unicef.org/careers/internships
[VOS1]Brussels-based partnerships crew
[VOS2]For the regional workplace and nation workplaces
Advertised: Nov 18 2024 Romance Standard Time
Application shut: Nov 24 2024 Romance Standard Time
