Overview
This internship supports the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children in its role as an independent advocate for the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against children.
Key Responsibilities
- Support monitoring of relevant developments regarding efforts to end violence against children;
- Assist with routine administrative tasks related to the work of the Office of the SRSG-VAC;
- Assist in organizing conferences, events, and meetings;
- Assist with note-taking and writing summaries/action points of internal and external meetings;
- Assist members of the team with research and other related tasks;
- Assist regional focal points in research at national, sub-regional and regional levels, updating country profiles and preparing country visits in the affiliated region.
- Assist the team members in strengthening child participation in the work of the Office, including in preparing and translating child friendly documents, collecting and documenting child and youth-led initiatives to eliminate all forms of violence at local, national, sub-regional, and regional levels, and helping grow the network of organizations encouraging children’s participation in vulnerable settings;
- Accompany team members to online and/or in-person meetings with delegates from Permanent Missions to meetings with other Secretariat offices and to sessions of the Security Council, General Assembly and other multilateral meetings;
- Perform any other functions as requested by the supervisor.
Required Experience
No working experience is required to apply for the United Nations Internship Programme.
Qualifications
- Be enrolled in, or have completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher);
- Be enrolled in, or have completed, the FINAL academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor's level or equivalent).
