Overview
The internship is located with the Regional Office for West and Central Africa, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Dakar (Senegal). The intern shall support the work and activities of the Global Firearms Programme.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the work and activities of the Global Firearms Programme, including its normative and intergovernmental work, technical assistance activities, and tools development work;
- Assist in the preparation of technical assistance workshops, meetings, high-level events and conferences and support related follow up actions;
- Conduct research on both legal documents, official and open sources on various aspects related to firearms issues and contribute to the preparation of technical documents, background papers, country profiles, news events, presentations, reports, summaries, talking points and speeches;
- Conduct legal research and analysis of legislation;
- Support the work of the GFP Community of Practitioners against Firearms Trafficking;
- Conduct regular media reviews on firearms related incidents and events and disseminate weekly briefs among the GFP team, and support related follow up actions, including research, tweets etc.;
- Draft ordinary correspondence and communications, attend and take notes at meetings;
- Perform other tasks as necessary.
Required Experience
Applicants to the UN Internship Programme are not required to have professional work experience. However, a field of study that is closely related to the type of internship that you are applying for is required.
Qualifications
- Applicants must meet one of the following requirements: (a) be enrolled in, or have recently completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher); (b) be enrolled in, or have recently completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor's degree or equivalent).
- Be computer literate in standard software applications;
- Have a demonstrated keen interest in the work of the United Nations and have a personal commitment to the ideals of the Charter; and
- Have a demonstrated ability to successfully interact with individuals of different cultural backgrounds and beliefs, which include willingness to try and understand and be tolerant of differing opinions and views. Applicants must have good knowledge of standard software applications, especially MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Teams.
