The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Unit of Information and Technology Management (ITM) in Copenhagen is responsible for supporting UNDP Country Offices around the world with ICT and Green Energy solutions. Our Unit offers a stimulating and versatile internship in an international environment with contact to various partners from some 166 countries with UNDP presence. We are a team who work in a dynamic and informal atmosphere, and we expect our interns to become vital members of the team.
As an intern, you will be given tasks and opportunities that have a direct global impact on the development efforts of the international community. The UNDP ITM internship programme enhances the academic life experience of passionate students as interns and empowers them to become socially responsible, innovative, and environmentally conscious leaders of tomorrow. We bridge the gap between textbook learning and real-life industry experience by taking interns behind the scenes of the world’s leading clean energy and sustainability initiatives, while learning to take into consideration the local context.
Being a part of our dynamic unit, you will also gain worldwide connections with other top-talented interns and UN staff from other agencies; our office is located at the UN City in Copenhagen, giving you the opportunity to interact with people outside the UNDP ITM Unit.
UNDP ITM Business Operations and Finance interns are part of the Service Delivery team which is the first responder to UNDP Ccountry Offices’ needs and supports ICT and Green Energy projects from a procurement, logistics and finance side. The team works closely with the Copenhagen Uunit and colleagues across the globe to support operations and programme work in some of the most challenging work environments with energy and ICT infrastructure. As part of the Crisis Rresponse Group of the UNDP, this work also serves to support UNDP’s resilience and recovery efforts in the wake of natural disasters.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Assist Country Offices across the unit´s key service lines in delivering innovative business solutions, sustainable Green Energy services, and world-connecting ICT solutions
Support the team in procuring IT equipment with detailed tasks ranging from need analysis, requests for quotation, evaluation, purchase, and delivery
Assist in the preparation of global shipments of equipment with third parties
Assist in preparing financial analysis to support the team cost recovery functions, reconciliation, budgeting, and financial reporting
Assist the project management of client-facing delivery and the implementation of new processes inside the unit
Participate in the recruitment of new interns and assist the team with the onboarding trainings
Draft and update the Unit’s documentation to support the continuous improvement of Service Delivery processes and procedures, instructions, and templates for best practice
Assist the Unit in organizing internal and external conferences
Support the Unit in gathering, consolidating and analysing data from databases and reports
Required Skills and Experience:
You must meet one of the following requirements:
You are currently in the final year of your bachelor’s degree; or
You are currently enrolled in a master’s degree; or
You have graduated no longer than 1 year ago from a master’s degree or equivalent studies in the field of international business, finance, management, economics, administration or equivalent
Experience in one of the following fields is required: account management, finance, logistics, procurement, HR, or administration
Experience with customer-oriented service delivery processes is an advantage
Experience with procurement processes is an advantage
Experience with cost recovery, reconciliation, budgeting, and financial reporting is an advantage
Experience with HR recruiting, and training is an advantage
Proficiency in Excel is an advantage
SharePoint knowledge, preferably SharePoint Online is an advantage
CRM/ERP systems knowledge is an advantage
Fluent in written and spoken English is required. Working Knowledge of other UN languages is an advantage .
