Apply for Communications & Knowledge Management Intern, Nairobi, Kenya Job Vacancy | Position

Work Location

Nairobi

Expected period

6 months

Duties and Responsibilities

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the main international environmental authority that units the worldwide environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable improvement throughout the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the worldwide surroundings. Its mandate is to coordinate the event of environmental coverage consensus by maintaining the worldwide surroundings below evaluation and bringing rising points to the eye of governments and the worldwide neighborhood for motion. This internship is hosted by UNEP’s Ecosystems Division within the Marine and Freshwater Branch. The Ecosystems Division works with worldwide and nationwide companions, offering technical help and capability improvement for the implementation of environmental coverage and strengthening the environmental administration capability of growing international locations and international locations with economies in transition. The general goal of the UNEP’s Ecosystems Division is to assist international locations in conserving, restoring and sustainably managing their terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems, the biodiversity they include and the services they supply for human well-being and prosperity. The Division’s mandate is to deal with the environmental causes and results from an ecosystem method, together with the implications of disasters and conflicts. Focusing on tackling local weather change, biodiversity loss, rampant air pollution throughout aquatic and related ecosystems, the Marine and Freshwater Branch helps international locations develop insurance policies and programmes to answer ecosystem challenges, and cut back air pollution from land-based actions, enhance resilience to local weather change and mirror linkages between poverty and the surroundings of their improvement planning. The intern will work in hybrid and assist the Marine and Freshwater Branch workforce in delivering on its communications, advocacy, occasions administration, and broader department communications, together with documentation and dissemination, web site upkeep and copywriting. Under the direct supervision of the Strategic Communications & Global Engagement Expert, the intern will: 1. Support a variety of communication and outreach wants and outputs, together with drafting briefing notes, speeches, coverage briefs, and press releases; and content material improvement, comparable to video scriptwriting for public service bulletins, internet tales, web site and social media textual content. 2. Support the event of multimedia communications property throughout digital and conventional mediums. 3. Support the dissemination of content material by way of media and networks. 4. Support the implementation of artistic campaigns. 5. Analyze social media efforts and create experiences on Campaign Activations. 6. Promote networking and constructing relationships with native organisations, teams or people and assist and/or take part in native volunteering initiatives. 7. Undertake programme and coverage analysis as directed. 8. Liaise with service suppliers and artistic companions. 9. Support the documentation and dissemination of knowledge, experiences and study and assessments 10. Support in organisation and coordination of occasions, workshops and conferences 11. Other duties to assist the work of the Branch as requested.

Qualifications/particular abilities

Applicants should, on the time of application, meet one of many following necessities: a. Be enrolled in a graduate college programme (second college diploma or equal, or increased); b. Be enrolled within the closing educational yr of a primary college diploma program (minimal Bachelor’s stage or equal); or c. Have graduated with a college diploma. Applicants should be pursuing {qualifications} in an space of study that may considerably contribute to the tasks outlined and general work of the Marine and Freshwater Branch, together with:

• Be pc literate in customary software program functions (significantly, proficiency utilizing MS Office Suite);
• Possess high-level English writing abilities;
• Demonstrate organizational and interpersonal abilities;
• Demonstrate curiosity in points associated to ecosystems administration, restoration, biodiversity conservation, local weather change or sustainable improvement; elF1ayy rLu2Z
• Clear potential to efficiently work together with people of various cultural backgrounds and beliefs, which embrace willingness to attempt to perceive and be tolerant of differing opinions and views;
• Have a eager curiosity within the work of the United Nations and have a private dedication to the beliefs of the UN Charter. Upon completion of the project, it’s anticipated that the intern will:
• Have demonstrated eager curiosity within the work of the United Nations and has a private dedication to the beliefs of the UN Charter;
• Have improved communication abilities by way of interplay with UNEP workers, Executive and Senior Management, governments and companion organizations;
• Have developed vital data on the subject of marine and coastal ecosystems and the work of the Global Fund for Coral Reefs;
• Have gained a greater understanding of UNEP’s operations and the general United Nations system.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the place marketed, fluency in English is required. For the put up marketed, data and fluency in English is required. NOTE: “Fluency equals a rating of “fluent” in all four areas (read, write, speak, understand) and “Knowledge of” equals a rating of “assured” in two of the 4 areas.

Additional Information

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Intern Specific textual content

Interns should not financially remunerated by the United Nations. Costs and preparations for journey, visas, lodging and residing bills are the duty of interns or their sponsoring establishments. Interns who should not residents or everlasting residents of the nation the place the internship is undertaken, could also be required to acquire the suitable visa and work/employment authorization. Successful candidates ought to talk about their particular visa necessities earlier than accepting the internship provide.

No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.