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UNHCR, the UN Refugee agency, the manhattan office (NYO) at United Nations Headquarters (UNHQ) is offering full-time internship positions to licensed candidates who meet aggressive standards.
Established in December 1950, UNHCR is a worldwide group devoted to saving lives, defending rights, and constructing a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people. yearly, hundreds of 1000’s of males, ladies, and kids are compelled to flee their properties to flee battle and persecution. UNHCR works in over one hundred thirty nations, using its expertise to defend and take care of hundreds of 1000’s.
Title: Intern
obligation Station: the manhattan, USA
anticipated start date: 01 January 2023
interval: 6 – eight months with flexibility on start and finish dates. candidates are requested to level the proposed internship interval inside the letter of curiosity.
Contract type: Internship, full-time basis
Operational Context
NYO represents UNHCR in the manhattan-based mostly UN processes and features as a liaison working carefully with UNHCR’s Headquarters, regional bureaus, and nation operations, collectively with UN Headquarters (UNHQ), collectively with the UN Departments of the Secretariat, UN businesses, funds, and packages, the ultimate meeting and its primary Committees, the safety Council, and the financial and Social Council. NYO additionally works with everlasting Missions of UN Member States (MS), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and worldwide and utterly different civil society organizations.
NYO engages in advocacy and partnership to be constructive that UNHCR’s mandate and positions are promoted with key (UN, MS, and utterly different) stakeholders in the manhattan. issues of central concern to UNHCR are extreme on the agenda of the United Nations and are additionally of excellent concern to MS, civil society, and the media. UNHCR is appreciated as a outcome of the agency with operational and coverage expertise on refugee, displacement, and statelessness issues.
With growing numbers of refugees and internally displaced individuals, the safety Council is usually engaged with issues of central significance to UNHCR and the extreme Commissioner repeatedly addresses the safety Council. These issues usually work together the division of Peace Operations as properly as to the division of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, whose management position in constructed-in and mission settings coincides with simply a few of the most important UNHCR operations globally.
furthermore, NYO is repeatedly referred to as upon to transient and companion with civil society, collectively with tutorial institutions, regarding refugees and stateless individuals. furthermore, NYO is more and more the port of name for worldwide media based mostly in the manhattan on factors pertaining to UNHCR’s worldwide packages and individuals of concern.
The intern is predicted to assist colleagues who interface repeatedly with UN, MS, NGOs, and utterly different counterparts on issues of central safety and human rights concern. The intern is predicted to current common and well timed evaluation of developments contained in the UN and their potential influence on UNHCR and its operations worldwide, as properly as to feed into these processes.
Accountability
NYO is completely apprised of all related information pertaining to its mandate arising in conferences and notices that fall contained in the intern’s duties.
evaluation of key developments and suggestion associated to humanitarian, enchancment, or regional information, feeding into updates supplied to UNHCR HQ, regional bureaus, and nation operations, to assist operational effectiveness and inform UNHCR insurance coverage policies and positions.
exterior insurance coverage policies and planning processes associated to humanitarian response or enchancment movement incorporate UNHCR factors.
duties
Attend and report on assigned conferences in an expeditious and well timed method;
assist UNHCR’s engagement with humanitarian, enchancment, and utterly different UN our bodies and processes;
Monitor, analyze, and report on key developments with related stakeholders and processes associated to factors which will have an effect on UNHCR’s operations and actions, an replace NYO and UNHCR HQ;
hold abreast of UNHCR’s worldwide operations and insurance coverage policies and assist engagement with related UNHCR HQ divisions and bureaus to guarantee a clear circulation of information;
Promote UNHCR’s targets by participation in briefings and inter-agency conferences, with a view to report on coverage enchancment, priorities, and work packages of latest York-based mostly our bodies and processes associated to humanitarian response, human rights, enchancment, peace, and safety;
Flag alternatives to enhance understanding of UNHCR’s mandate and operations amongst NY-based mostly stakeholders;
Make options and current inputs to be constructive that UNHCR’s pursuits and factors are taken into consideration inside the UN and inter-agency place papers and coverage statements impacting UNHCR’s operations and safety actions;
allow fixed and full UNHCR messaging and interventions by shut collaboration throughout NYO gadgets, as properly as to UNHCR HQ and area;
adjust to and report on related negotiations of safety Council and regular meeting resolutions of import to UNHCR;
adjust to and report on extreme-stage occasions, exact-time safety Council briefings and inter-agency conferences and dealing teams;
Conduct evaluation and consultations on the matters of relevance and curiosity;
assist participation of UNHCR in related worldwide and bilateral fora in the manhattan
assist in planning, coordinating, and ending up public occasions organized by NYO.
teaching elements and studying parts
The intern will full the subsequent obligatory on-line teaching packages:
1. fundamental safety inside the sphere (BSAFE)
2. UN Course on Prevention of Harassment, Sexual Harassment and Abuse of Authority
three. safety Induction Programme (PIP)
4. stopping Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
5. ICT information safety consciousness superior teaching (InfoSec)
6. fundamental of Fraud and Corruption consciousness
The intern could have weekly conferences collectively with his/her supervisor to replicate on experiences, questions, workload, and studying alternatives.
by the every day work, the intern will be taught parts of UNHCR and UNHQ construction and processes. the tutorial parts outcome from the duties the intern carries out by the task, equivalent to information of UNHCR insurance coverage policies, the UN system, and its insurance coverage policies, significantly in relation to humanitarian, political, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, enchancment, human rights, and rule of regulation factors, and from engagement with expert workers members on the group.
The intern will strengthen drafting and analytical expertise, by reporting on conferences, occasions, and utterly different engagements and developments; as properly as to presentation and negotiation expertise, as a outcome of the intern will assist in advocating for the inclusion of UNHCR positions into UN insurance coverage policies.
The intern may even develop evaluation expertise by extra focused and in-depth examine into particular thematic and geographic factors.
The intern’s task supplies an alternative to develop political consciousness and work together in expert networking at a world stage. The intern can additionally sustain with political and utterly different nation-associated developments of direct relevance to her/his research and potential future employment.
Authorities
take part in:
the manhattan office weekly all workers conferences
Weekly conferences with the supervisor
conferences with exterior companions, as needed
Refer inquiries encountered to related UNHCR workers members.
minimal skills required
Be both a latest graduate (having accomplished their research inside one 12 months of making use of) or a current scholar in a graduate/undergraduate faculty program from a college or elevated training facility accredited by UNESCO; and
Have accomplished a minimal of two years of undergraduate research in a area related or of curiosity to the work of UNHCR.
a particular person whose father, mom, son, daughter, brother, or sister is a workers member of UNHCR, collectively with a quick lived Appointment holder or a member of the Affiliate Workforce, isn’t eligible for an internship.
Desired candidate profile
diploma in worldwide relations, political sciences, regulation, or associated area;
Demonstrated dedication or sturdy curiosity in worldwide relations, refugee factors, and humanitarian response;
Fluency in English with great written and oral communication expertise;
Proficiency in PowerPoint, Microsoft phrase, Excel, and teams.
monetary allowance, visa, and medical insurance coverage
Interns who do not acquire monetary assist from an out of doorways celebration will acquire an allowance inside the quantity of 1, 748.04USD/month to assist prices associated to meals and native transportation.
If an intern receives monetary assist from an out of doorways celebration, UNHCR may want to signal Memorandum of Understanding with the involved celebration (e.g. sponsoring tutorial institution). on this case, no funds is extra probably to be paid by UNHCR in the direction of meals and native transportation. inside the event that the quantity of the monetary assist is decrease than 1, 748.04USD/month, the distinction is extra probably to be paid by UNHCR.
Interns should be ready to cowl their very personal journey to the obligation station as properly as to any further prices above and past any allowance they may acquire from UNHCR.
A G-4 visa is required for interns who will not be US residents or lawful everlasting residents. UNHCR can current assist with the required paperwork for a G-4 visa, nonetheless, UNHCR accepts no accountability for any prices linked to the visa.
earlier than the start of an internship with UNHCR, candidates are chargeable for arranging medical insurance coverage and for offering proof to UNHCR of legitimate medical insurance coverage and for offering proof to UNHCR of legitimate medical insurance coverage defending the interval of internship.
UNHCR accepts no accountability for any prices linked to medical insurance coverage of interns, nor does the group cowl the prices for medical evacuation of interns.
UNHCR is an equal alternative employer and does not cost a charge at any stage of the recruitment course of (software, interview meeting, processing, teaching, or one other prices).UNHCR is dedicated to range and welcomes purposes from licensed candidates regardless of incapacity, gender id, marital or civil partnership standing, race, coloration or ethnic and nationwide origins, religion or notion, or sexual orientation.
Recruitment as a UNHCR workers member and engagement beneath a UNHCR affiliate scheme or as an intern is topic to proof of vaccination in the direction of COVID-19.
The UNHCR workforce consists of many numerous nationalities, cultures, languages, and opinions. UNHCR seeks to maintain and strengthen this range to guarantee equal alternatives as properly as to an inclusive working environment for its complete workforce. purposes are inspired from all licensed candidates with out distinction on grounds of race, coloration, intercourse, nationwide origin, age, religion, incapacity, sexual orientation, and gender id.
UNHCR does not cost a charge at any stage of its recruitment course of (software, interview, meeting, touring, processing, or teaching.
We welcome purposes from candidates with a refugee or stateless background.
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