UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 international locations and territories, we work for each child, in all places, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means surrender.
For each child, a possibility
UNICEF’s Innovative Finance Hub, based in 2022, goals to catalyze world capital in assist of youngsters to fill the SDG hole and radically speed up progress in direction of the SDGs. We sit at a singular vantage level the place a corporation engaged on world points meets the startup considering, new concepts, and companions to show this vitality into scalable options.
We intention to grasp and remedy a urgent problem: why is finance not working for kids? On one hand, the funding hole to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) continues to develop (at the moment at over 4 trillion USD!), the place kids are notably susceptible to the academic, well being, safety and local weather challenges the SDGs attempt to tackle. On the opposite hand, kids are seldom thought-about within the funding practices of buyers, even essentially the most accountable and socially acutely aware – whereas nearly all corporations have materials impacts on kids lives, as customers, by means of their employed mother and father and caregivers, as group members and as future leaders.
To proceed our increasing work, the Innovative Finance Hub is trying for two Innovative Finance Interns reporting to the Programme Specialist and the Senior Analyst, Innovative Finance, respectively, as part of the core group driving Innovative Financing methods.
How are you able to make a difference?
In assist of the 2022-25 Strategic Plan, UNICEF has launched its Global Innovative Finance for Children (IF4C) Strategy and is ramping up coordinated endeavors to foster and promote the broader use of IF.
As part of this technique, the Innovative Finance Hub works on two Pathways – Emerging Fundraising, and Innovative Financing, the place this internship will sit.
At the Innovative Financing Pathway, we develop options across the integration of youngsters in buyers’ sustainability and human rights practices, throughout asset courses (together with non-public and public equities). Our work entails the interpretation of child rights into insurance policies, suggestions and practices for buyers and their investees to respect child rights and concurrently drive funding with a constructive impression for kids. Our core challenge on this regard is child-lens investing, an investing strategy to place kids within the investor agenda. You can study extra of child-lens investing right here: https://www.unicef.org/innovation/innovative-finance/child-lens-investing
The two Innovative Finance Interns will present a broad assist on progressive finance tasks. The expectation is to introduce the interns to UNICEF’s work on Innovative Financing and contain them in assist capabilities with the group, following a learning-by-doing mannequin.
Main tasks embrace:
After a complete onboarding, candidates can be anticipated to carry out assist capabilities together with:
- Research and evaluation: together with desktop analysis round sustainable finance frameworks, consolidation of databases for contacts and pipeline companions; in addition to devoted analysis assist deep-diving in agreed areas of labor round child-lens investing (private and non-private fairness buyers, monetary merchandise, regulatory mapping, and so on.).
- Internal Support: together with focused assist to Project Managers round quite a lot of matters on child-lens investing, sustainable finance (i.e: improvement of Briefing Notes and displays for senior administration and key exterior occasions and stakeholders)
- Communications: Coordinate with IF Hub Communications Specialist to align core messaging and ship well timed social media and exterior outreach when launching new merchandise and stories.
- Team Overall Support: Team Overall Support: Given the varied vary of tasks throughout the IF Hub, the intern could also be known as upon to help with numerous duties associated to progressive finance, both straight or not directly, as wanted.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…
- Enrolled at a college at a grasp’s stage, undergraduate stage or a latest graduate (inside two years from date of commencement) in Finance, Business Administration, International Development, or a associated discipline.
- Previous work expertise, together with internships, within the finance and/or sustainable finance (ESG, impression investing, and so on.) discipline could be thought-about an asset.
- Demonstrated curiosity working with sustainable finance or associated discipline is fascinating, together with stable understanding of monetary ideas, together with sustainable finance, impression investing and ESG.
- Strong capability to work successfully in inter-divisional groups.
- Excellent analytical, interpersonal and communications abilities.
- Ability to conceptualize, plan and execute concepts.
- Fluency in English is required.
WORK ARRANGEMENT:
The Innovative Financing interns will ideally work in-person at our workplace in Helsinki, Finland, for a interval of 6 months/26 weeks.
Conditions:
- Age: Interns have to be at the least 18 years.
- Have good educational efficiency as demonstrated by latest college or establishment information.
- Have no speedy family (e.g. father, mom, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF workplace.
- Have no different family within the line of authority which the intern will report back to.
- Individuals will need to have proof of medical insurance coverage protecting the time and site of their internship.
- This internship can be delivered on a full-time dedication.
- Individuals are anticipated to offer their very own laptop computer.
- Selected candidates will obtain a month-to-month stipend (until already in receipt of any assist for the internship from a 3rd occasion).
- Individuals should fund their very own journey and residing bills.
- Individuals are accountable for arranging any visa or immigration necessities.
Employment: There isn’t any expectancy of employment on the finish of the internship.
Please see hooked up Terms of Reference (TOR) 
For each Child, you reveal…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every thing we do and the way 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 3) Drive to attain outcomes for 4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and 6) Thinks and acts 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 here.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids, and our world workforce should mirror the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.
We supply a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims 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 kids. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer extra data to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which can be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government staff which can be thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the proper to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or vital inoculation necessities usually are not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any cause.
Only shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.
Contact: For any queries, please contact: swe-ooi-recruitments@unicef.org
Innovative Finance Intern (2 vacancies), Innovative Finance Hub, Helsinki, Finland, Full time, 26 Weeks (in person or distant)
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