Overview
This internship focuses on supporting UN peace operations with Security Sector Reform (SSR) mandates and non-mission settings. The role involves providing strategic and technical advice to enable states to develop effective and accountable security institutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Support country- and/or region-specific activities, including scheduling meetings, attending Security Council meetings, taking notes and preparing readouts, reviewing and summarizing documents.
- Assist with the development of knowledge and guidance tools, including through literature reviews and research on good practices and lessons learned.
- Gather, research, analyze and present information from various sources.
- Assist with the drafting of various documents.
- Assist with data and information management.
- Support the organization of expert consultations and Member States engagements, including the annual meeting of senior SSR practitioners and meetings of the UN Group of Friends of SSR.
Required Experience
Applicants to the UN Internship Programme are not required to have professional work experience.
Qualifications
- Applicants must meet one of the following requirements: (a) be enrolled in, or have completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher); (b) be enrolled in, or have completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor's degree or equivalent).
- Applicants should have good knowledge of standard software applications, especially MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Teams.
- Ability to draft news articles and/or social media posts.
- Ability to design surveys and polls.
- A field of study that is closely related to the type of internship that you are applying for is required.
- 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.
