Background

The Integrated Talent Management Unit is responsible for designing strategies, solutions, tools and services that enable and facilitate more effective and impactful people decisions, and help shape a workplace where individuals thrive and teams excel. The Unit includes several service lines e.g. competency management, job design and classification; talent sourcing, onboarding, and succession management; diversity, employee engagement, and staff well-being; performance management, learning and leadership development, and career management. It also includes a distinct service line for internal management consulting which enables strategic positioning, resources alignment and business process reengineering.

The mission of ITM is to enable effective management of UNDP talent through full integration of all aspects of talent management. Such an approach incorporates data from a variety of processes from recruitment, to performance management, learning, and development, and translates it into a coherent ‘employee life cycle' centered around one competency framework aligned with the UNDP Strategic Plan.

In this context, the Talent Development Unit (TDU) is a centre of expertise that designs and delivers state of the art learning and development solutions to UNDP staff worldwide. Through the delivery of large scale leadership development programmes; tailored development programmes for key leadership roles; an extensive offering of high quality online courses on UNDP’s core business and professional certification programmes as well as customised development planning and career management tools, it enables and

The Learning Intern’s primary function is to support the Talent Development Centre, which is an online learning platform that provides mandatory learning and learning in substantive areas to support UNDP competencies; and corporate certification programmes such as the Finance Certification Programme (FTCP) and Procurement Certification, as well as the Leadership Development Pathway. Approximately 14,000 staff access TDC- this includes UNDP personnel spread in over 166 country offices and staff from other UN partner agencies.

The job requires creativity, enthusiasm in learning, and the ability to meet deadlines and maintain high-quality of output working under pressure. The ability to use good judgment and experience working in a multi-cultural setting are critical. 

Duties and Responsibilities

·        Identify relevant MOOC/External courses weekly

·        Assist in the maintenance of TDC pages (UNDP's LMS))

·        Update catalog and assign content to different categories

·        Assist in bimonthly production of ITM newsletter

·        Assist in putting together and coordinating webinars and other learning activities and materials associated with the programme;

·        Provide support to TDC helpdesk

·        Participate in testing and implementation of new TDC features.

Competencies

·        Excellent communication skills;

·        Excellent organizational skills;

·        Attention to details;

·        Identifies priority activities and assignments;

·        Works collaboratively with colleagues to achieve organizational goals;

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

·        Student currently enrolled in a Master programme. 

Experience:

·        Knowledge of HTML, content authoring tools, Photoshop, video editing tools

Language:

·        Fluency in English;

·        Working knowledge of another UN language is an asset.