UN Women Internship: Make a Global Impact
Are you passionate about making a difference for gender equality? Then, apply for a UN Women Internship with the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund). This role sits within UN Women’s Policy, Programme, Intergovernmental Division. Indeed, it’s a unique chance to get direct experience stopping violence against women and girls (EVAW/G).
About the UN Trust Fund: The UN Trust Fund began in 1996. Notably, it remains the only global UN funding mechanism solely dedicated to giving grants directly to civil society groups. These groups work to prevent and end all forms of violence against women and girls. Subsequently, since 2010, UN Women has managed the UN Trust Fund. This arrangement provides strong institutional and field support through global offices.
With nearly three decades of work, the UN Trust Fund has become a key global way to fund efforts against violence. Moreover, it plays a vital role in encouraging cooperation among governments, UN agencies, and civil society. This collaboration addresses the root causes and effects of violence. Furthermore, the Trust Fund gives long-term grants. Specifically, it supports organizations working in many different areas, particularly those helping marginalized groups. For example, it aids Indigenous women, women with disabilities, and women in rural or conflict-affected regions. Ultimately, its investments focus on survivors and aim for lasting impact. To date, the UN Trust Fund has funded over 700 projects in over 140 countries. Consequently, this significantly helps global efforts to end violence against women and girls.
Your Role: Resource Mobilization & Advocacy in This UN Women Internship
Working under the Programme Manager for Strategic Partnerships, Advocacy, and Resource Mobilization, within the Global Giving team, you will help strengthen the UN Trust Fund’s outreach and funding. Your key tasks include:
- Support Resource Mobilization: Work directly with the Resource Mobilization and Advocacy Specialist. This specifically includes updating donor information and contact lists. Furthermore, you will find powerful human-interest stories from grantee reports. These stories, in turn, support individual giving and digital communication.
- Provide Event Support: Offer essential logistical and operational help for internal and external events. For instance, assist with UN Trust Fund webinars and advocacy events. Typical tasks involve transcription, note-taking, and drafting invitations and presentations.
- Contribute to Reporting: Summarize progress reports and evaluations. Then, extract key information for resource mobilization and advocacy.
- Assist Communications: Help the Communications Team produce the monthly external newsletter.
- Aid Visual Content: Support the Communications Team in making themed visual materials. You will also draft related social media messages. Additionally, update UN Trust Fund information platforms, like Trello boards, with content from communication plans.
- Help with Data: Assist with data analysis and create PowerPoint presentations.
What You’ll Gain: Learning Objectives of This UN Women Internship
This UN Women Internship offers valuable learning experiences. During your time, you will:
- Increase your understanding of UN Women’s work and the UN system.
- Get direct exposure to the UN Trust Fund’s projects, methods, and events.
- Deepen your knowledge of resource mobilization, advocacy, and communication for ending violence against women and girls.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Education: You must be pursuing a postgraduate degree (Master’s or higher), alternatively, in the final year of a first university degree (Bachelor’s or equivalent), or indeed, in a mandatory national service program (where the internship forms a part), or finally, have recently graduated (within two years).
- Language: You must have excellent English communication skills (written and oral). Knowledge of Spanish and/or French is a definite plus.
- Remuneration: UN Women provides a stipend to interns not receiving financial support from other sources. This stipend partially covers basic living costs.
- Priority: Applicants from the Global South receive priority.
Core Values & Competencies: Candidates should show Integrity, Professionalism, and Respect for Diversity. Also, they should demonstrably display Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues, Accountability, Creative Problem Solving, Effective Communication, Inclusive Collaboration, Stakeholder Engagement, and Leading by Example. Visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Values and Competencies Framework.
Diversity and Inclusion
UN Women commits to creating a diverse and respectful environment. To that end, UN Women hires, trains, compensates, and promotes people without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other legally protected basis. All employment decisions rely on qualifications, competence, integrity, and organizational need.
If you need any reasonable help to participate in the recruitment process, please include this in your application.
UN Women maintains a zero-tolerance policy for conduct inconsistent with UN aims. This notably includes sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. All selected candidates must follow UN Women’s policies and conduct standards. Therefore, they will undergo strict reference and background checks. (Background checks verify academic credentials and employment history. Furthermore, selected candidates may need to provide more information for these checks.)
Important Note: All sections of the application form, including education and employment history, must be complete. Otherwise, incomplete applications may face disqualification.
Apply now on the UN Women website: https://estm.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/26766
