UNDP Jobs - 49074- Intern- Research - (For Internationals only)

Intern- Research - (For Internationals only)

Location :

Dhaka, BANGLADESH

Type of Contract :

Internship

Starting Date :

15-Sep-2014

Application Deadline :

27-Aug-14 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

Intern

Duration of Initial Contract :

Minimum 12 weeks

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

Minimum 12 weeks

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

UNDP Bangladesh is supporting the Government to find innovative solutions to its development challenges based on the Country Programme Document approved by the Executive Board for the period 2012– 2016. UNDP Bangladesh is committed to assist Bangladesh and its people in establishing sustainable pathways to development and a resilient nation. In the 2013 Human Development Report, Bangladesh has been flagged as a “rising star”, halving poverty and attaining gender parity in primary education. Staying on course with these results, UNDP Bangladesh is working towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 while gearing towards middle income status for Bangladesh by 2021.

UNDP Bangladesh is supporting the Government of Bangladesh through four broad programme areas: Democratic Governance, Crisis Prevention and Recovery, Poverty Reduction, and Energy, Environment & Climate Change. It administrates around 30 projects of varying sizes, with a combined annual delivery of approximately USD 80 million. UNDP has been working with its development partners and the Government of Bangladesh in these areas to support in achieving the country’s development objectives.

The RRMC is located in the Country Director’s Directorate and is responsible for managing partnerships, country programme monitoring and reporting, Results-Based Management (RBM) and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) capacity building and overall quality assurance for management of results and resources.

RRMC consolidates, monitors and reports on the key results achieved by UNDP Bangladesh across the various clusters and projects; provides M&E advice and support to clusters and projects to meet corporate and donor/partners requirements; provides support to UNDAF M&E group to monitor the UNDAF outcomes and indicators; facilitates knowledge sharing on monitoring and evaluation.

Duties and Responsibilities

Working under the supervision of the ACD (Results and Resource Management) the incumbent will provide assistance on planning, monitoring and reporting results.
Outputs and deliverables:

Contribute to collecting evidence on UNDP results

Support programme clusters and projects in collecting data and evidence based development results as strongly and accurately as possible;
Verify the collected data and evidence;
Support in reviewing integration of evidence-based results in donor and other corporate reports.

Contribute to research on various UNDP thematic areas

Assist in conducting research on UNDP projects and programmes in various thematic areas, including governance, resilience, poverty reduction;
Map out various research conducted by UNDP projects and programmes;
Consolidate research and contribute to development of reports, journals and publications.

Contribute to capacity building activities on development results

Support organizing training to UNDP staff in documenting best practices and evidence;
Share knowledge and information on the evidence-based research.

Competencies

Corporate Competencies:

Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards (human rights, peace, understanding between peoples and nations, tolerance, integrity, respect, results orientation (UNDP core ethics) impartiality;
Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;

Functional Competencies:

Development and Operational Effectiveness

Excellent communication skills (written and oral);
Proven ability to write very high quality reports and documentation that meet corporate standards and CO priorities;
Solid research capacity across range of research mediums, and proven ability to very effectively coordinate and manage research, writing and editing tasks with number of stakeholders;
Ability to ensure timely delivery of tasks, and flexibility and adaptalibity of approach to such tasks;
Good planning skills demonstrated through good time management, capacity to plan, and deliver tasks on time.

Knowledge Management and Learning

Promotes knowledge management and a learning environment in the office through leadership and personal example;
Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills;
Sensitivity to and responsiveness to all partners;
Respectful and helpful relations with all UN/UNDP staff.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Currently Enrolled in a graduate-level degree programme in Economics, Development Studies, Communications, Public Policy, Public Administration, ICT or any other relevant of Social Science discipline.

Experience:

Eagerness to learn about UNDP practice areas and their application on national, regional and international level;
Willingness to participate in all aspects of UNDP programme activities;
Strong computer skills, particularly of MS Word, and e-mail applications.

Language Requirements:

Excellent oral and written English language skills (ability to write well for international audience).

Terms and conditions:

UNDP Internships are non-paid and a minimum of 12 weeks of commitment on behalf of the applicants is required, with longer commitment considered desirable. In return, UNDP commits to assign at least 1 staff member to act as a mentor to the intern and to ensure that interns are exposed to meaningful and adequately challenging professional tasks.