Overview
Internship opportunity at the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) Joint Medical Services (JMS) to assist in the implementation of the JMS Wellness programme.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in the preparation of health and wellness communication tools.
- Assist in health promotion and outreach activities focused on staff wellness.
- Assist in providing administrative support for wellness activities.
- Assist in promoting awareness on healthy nutrition and providing support for nutrition-based wellness activities.
- Assist in disseminating health awareness content through the JMS website, online newsletter articles and social media platforms.
- Assist in data collection and data analytics, including support to research activities, monitoring and evaluation of JMS wellness and related programmes, supporting surveys and interviews, report writing, and presentation of recommendations.
- Assist in promoting public health awareness and supporting JMS interventions for prevention & control of infectious disease outbreaks.
- Assist with administrative support for the HIV Workplace programme including support for the annual UN Run, Children’s HIV training and other programmatic activities.
- Utilization of the activities and experiences contemplated in this role to learn, to be engaged and to gain the core skills as per the learning objectives of the sponsoring college / institution.
- Perform any other duties as may be assigned.
Qualifications
Applicants must at the time of application, meet one of the following requirements: a. Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher), b. Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree program (minimum Bachelor's level or equivalent), c. Have graduated with Bachelor's degree, Masters, PhD or equivalent. Preferred areas of study: Nutrition and Dietetics, Public Health, Wellness Studies, Health Communications or related fields of study.
