Overview
This internship supports research activities related to cybercrime, emerging technology risks, and digital infrastructure security. The intern will contribute to analytical and policy-oriented research examining links between cyber-enabled crime and organized criminal networks.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct desk research on cybercrime trends, scam centres, online fraud schemes and emerging criminal methodologies;
- Conduct research on the terrorist and criminal misuse of satellite-enabled technologies;
- Support the drafting of background papers, briefing notes, concept notes, presentations and analytical reports;
- Assist in collecting and organizing open-source information, academic literature and policy materials;
- Provide general research and programme support to identify new areas of interest for UNICRI;
- Support communication and outreach activities related to research dissemination;
- Assist with other research and programme support tasks as required.
Required Experience
Applicants to the UN Internship Programme are not required to have professional work experience.
Qualifications
- Be enrolled in, or have recently 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 degree or equivalent).
- Applicants must be a student in the final year of the first university degree (bachelor or equivalent), Master’s or Ph.D. Programme or equivalent, or have completed a Bachelor’s, Master’s or PH.D. Programme.
- Good knowledge of standard software applications, especially MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Teams.
