The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. We work with partners to integrate qualified, highly motivated and well supported UN Volunteers into development programming and promote the value and global recognition of volunteerism. UNV is represented worldwide. UNV is administered by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The Human Resources Section supports UNV in achieving its mandate, business plan and staff performance objectives by partnering with senior and line management to meet UNV’s strategic HR requirements, and by designing/implementing services and initiatives to attract, develop, motivate, and retain staff and personnel with the best talents to match UNV’s needs. The Human Resources Section operates within the framework of UNDP’s human resources policies and systems.
The Human Resources Management (HRM) team in the HR Section is looking for a highly motivated intern to support initiatives related to staff learning and development, outreach and branding as well as business process review.
Duties and responsibilities:
Under the direction of the HR Specialist, Team Lead HRM, the incumbent is expected to contribute to:
Development, planning, promotion and implementation of specific staff development programmes.
Drafting reports, guidelines, and promotional materials related to staff learning opportunities and the global staff learning approach.
Creating new and updating existing user-friendly content for the HR portal.
Outreach and sourcing efforts for staff vacancies (social media/ virtual career fairs);
Administrative and logistics support to staff recruitment process;
Preparing presentations; all staff announcements; webinar content etc. on HRM issues.
Required Skills and Experience:
Education:
Applicants to the UNDP internship programme must at the time of application meet one of the following requirements:
Be enrolled in a postgraduate degree programme (such as a master’s programme, or higher);
Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (such as bachelor’s degree or equivalent);
Have recently graduated with a university degree (as defined in (a) and (b) above) and, if selected, must start the internship within one-year of graduation;
Be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program and undertake the internship as part of this program.
Experience:
Experience in planning events and/or large group activities;
Experience drafting a range of documents as well as social media content.
HR experience or knowledge is a strong asset.
Language:
Proficiency in English;
Knowledge of one of the other five official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) is an asset.
