Overview
This internship supports the work of the Anti-Racism Office across its functional pillars: Advocacy, Transparency, and Accountability. The role aims to address racism within the UN Secretariat and promote a zero-tolerance approach to racism and racial discrimination.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the preparation of internal communication and outreach materials.
- Assist in drafting background notes, talking points, summaries, articles and other written materials.
- Help organize dialogues, discussions, talks and staff engagement activities.
- Support coordination, follow-up and documentation related to advocacy activities and events.
- Contribute to initiatives that promote participation in anti-racism programmes.
- Assist in compiling, cleaning and organizing qualitative and quantitative information.
- Support the preparation of presentations, tables, charts, graphs and other materials.
- Contribute to maintaining reference materials, trackers, databases and other working files.
- Assist in organizing data and information in a clear and accessible manner.
- Conduct desk research and compile information from a range of sources.
- Support drafting of reports, briefing materials and research inputs.
- Assist with meeting notes, action points, document management and other programme support tasks.
- Support the preparation and follow-up of internal activities.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
Required Experience
Applicants to the UN Internship Programme are not required to have professional work experience.
Qualifications
- be enrolled in, or have completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher); or
- be enrolled in, or have completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor’s degree or equivalent).
Good knowledge of standard software applications, especially MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel and MS Teams is required.
