Psychosocial Support Intern

United Nations - UN Syria International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism

Internship Closes 20 Aug 2026 20 days left

Overview

The Psychosocial Support Intern will assist with evaluating current staff support and exploring new service opportunities to enhance the IIIM’s ongoing initiatives and contribute to the quality of psychosocial services provided to staff.


Key Responsibilities
  • Assisting with the launch and data interpretation of the Annual Well-being and Employee Engagement Survey
  • Providing support to the IIIM Workgroup on Well-being and Employee Engagement
  • Conducting research on best practices of psychosocial support to staff
  • Supporting the finalisation of the Psychological Preparedness for Deployment Manual
  • Drafting the vicarious trauma prevention guide
  • Designing materials for staff support for the Support to Staff online page
  • Drafting meeting minutes
  • Designing and conducting at least one presentation on the topic of staff support
  • Assisting the WSO in data interpretation of the annual survey and producing one report on statistical analysis and interpretation of the annual survey
  • Producing one article and assisting with the population of the Support to Staff online page
  • Producing accurate and detailed meeting minutes for various meetings
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). Interested candidates must be pursuing or pursued their degree in areas related to this Job Opening: Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Forensic Psychology or related field. Applicants must have good knowledge of standard software applications, especially MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Teams.

Other Details
Languages Required
Fluency in spoken and written English is required for the internship.
Languages Preferred
Knowledge of Arabic or an additional official UN language is an advantage.
Contract Duration
maximum six months
Work Modality
in-person, hybrid or remote work. The modality is flexible, to be discussed with the successful candidate.
Remuneration
The IIIM internship is unpaid and full-time (40 hours per week). Interns are not financially remunerated by the United Nations. Costs and arrangements for travel, visas, accommodation and living expenses are the responsibility of interns or their sponsoring institutions.
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