Background

• Providing direct strategic and coordination support to the humanitarian system: supporting Humanitarian Coordinators, Resident Coordinators, DSRSGs, Humanitarian Country Teams and Cluster Lead Agencies at country level;
• Defining and coordinating the work in the areas of early recovery not covered by other clusters (e.g. governance, non-agricultural livelihoods, or other thematic area identified by the HCT);
• Providing support and guidance on the integration of early recovery in the work of other programmatic clusters; and
• Advocating at the global policy level on strengthening financing mechanisms, building capacity on early recovery, and making humanitarian response more strategic to link better with the resilience agenda, disaster risk reduction, and development work.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist the Coordinator of the Global Cluster Working Group on Early Recovery (CWGER) and his team in performing daily tasks in connection with Early Recovery Partnership team’s work (help organize and prepare relevant background documents for meetings, provide overall support in preparation for and follow up of meetings and conferences, preparing and circulating the meeting minutes, taking notes, and reporting to non-attending team members, etc.);Provide overall support in preparation for and follow up of IASC Gender Sub-Working Group meetings. Provide overall support in preparation for and follow up of IASC Task Force on Accountability to Affected Populations meetings.
• Draft outline and collect materials for presentations to UNDP senior staff and other BCPR teams;
• Provide support to the Early Recovery Advisor training and the Cluster Coordinators training.
• Read material about Early Recovery in general, and Accountability to Affected Populations and Gender Mainstreaming in Humanitarian Settings more specifically;
• Attend and support inter-agency meetings (e.g. other IASC subsidiary bodies meetings; IASC weekly meetings; Global Cluster meetings; Early Recovery Partnership team meetings).

Competencies

Corporate:

• Demonstrates integrity and fairness, by modelling the UN/UNDP’s values and ethical standards;
• Promotes the vision, mission and strategic goals of the UN and UNDP;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.

• Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills;
• Excellent interpersonal and networking skills.

• Builds strong relationships with clients and external actors;
• Focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to critical feedback;
• Ability to build and sustain effective partnerships with UN Agencies and main constituents, advocate effectively, and communicate sensitively across different constituencies.

• Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities;
• Sound time management and organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks;
• Manage and organise training materials being delivered by multiple developers and teams;
• Capacity to work under tight deadlines, manage stress and adapt to rapidly evolving situations.

Required Skills and Experience

• Enrolled in an advanced degree (master’s level) in adult education, political science/international relations, or other relevant field. Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field.

• Experience /interest in Gender and/or Accountability issues;
• Some knowledge of inter-agency coordination, humanitarian and development goals and processes, strategy formulation, programme planning and monitoring & evaluation in crisis and post-crisis settings would be an advantage;
• Experience in working in an international setting and/or organisation in international development and/or humanitarian assistance would be an advantage.

• Fluency in written and spoken English is required for this post. French language skills would be an advantage.

• Official letter from the University confirming enrollment in a graduate-level degree programme (and graduation date);
• Copy of school transcript;
• Duly completed UNDP Internship Application form;
• 2 relevant writing samples.

• Letter of endorsement from a senior faculty member who has directly supervised the student in the recent past and who is fully acquainted with the student's performance;
• A brief paper setting out the reasons why he/she is seeking an internship with UNDP and what is expected from the experience;
• A Medical Certificate of Good Health from a recognized physician. If the intern is expected to travel outside the country of their residence, other than to Europe and North America, the physician must indicate whether he/she is fit to travel and has had the required inoculations for the country or countries to which the intern is to travel;
• Proof of medical and life/accident insurance valid for the location(s) in which the internship will be carried out. Click here for a list of insurance carriers offering expatriate individual health and life/accident insurance plans for students.

• Interns are considered gratis personnel. They are not staff members;
• Interns are not financially remunerated by UNDP. The costs associated must be borne by the nominating institution, related institution or government, which may provide the required financial assistance to its students; or by the student, who will have to obtain financing for subsistence and make his or her own arrangements for travel, accommodation, visa, etc;
• Candidates must present proof of medical insurance coverage during the internship period.

For more information about the application process and UNDP's internship terms and conditions, visit: www.undp.org/internships.