Historique

The United Nations Millennium Declaration was adopted in 2000 by world leaders, committing their countries to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out time-bound goals on meeting the needs of the world’s poorest. These goals, to be achieved by 2015, formed the basis for what are now known as the eight Millennium Development Goals, which have been broken down into 21 quantified targets that are measured by 60 indicators.
 
As was outlined in the report of the Secretary to the general Assembly in September 2011, the UN system’s process of developing a new frame work post 2015 is likely to have the best development impact if it emerges from an inclusive, open and transparent process with multi-stakeholder participation. UN Millennium Campaign has for the last 8 years led UN efforts to build partnerships with civil society, private sector and citizens to contribute to the achievement of the MDGs. This has been done through the use of innovative communications campaigns, advocacy, social mobilization and policy dialogue. The focus has been to seek to influence policy, the generation, allocation and effective use of resources, ways of working and the democratic governance environment to accelerate the progress toward MDG achievement.
 
In this regard, the UN Millennium Campaign is taking the lead in designing and implementing a strategy for outreach to stakeholders; both within and outside the UN including key leaders across civil society. Our Post-2015 outreach is an attempt to bring the voice of citizens, civil society and the myriad of other stakeholders directly into the debates and conversations that will shape the development agenda.
 
The UN Millennium Campaign Oversees the World We Want platform, which besides being the UN open consultation on Post 2015 is also a space that consolidates civil society input to policy making. With UNDG’s 88 National & Thematic Consultations, and the incorporation of CSO-led consultations, academia, and the political conversation, the World We Want platform aims at becoming a one-stop shop for people’s engagement with policy making. It also allows policy makers to better understand the needs and priorities of their constituents. At the same time, it is a place for local solutions to be shared and learnt from, a space for open-knowledge, open-data, and cooperation. Thanks to data mining technology, and through quantitative and qualitative analysis, worldwewant2015.org aims to create a virtuous cycle for Sustainable Development.
 
Building on the expertise of the UNMC and as part of the Youth advocate team, the intern selected is expected to raise awareness of the platform and provide guidance to peer partners to promote its use, allowing as many users as possible contributing to express their top priorities through My World [myworld2015.org] and more detailed information on the World We Want [worldwewant2015.org].
 
Applicants should have a background in CSO outreach, student mobilization and/or social media engagement. The candidate is expected to be active on social media and motivated in providing substantive support to the campaign. The candidate is expected to have an excellent knowledge of English and be fluent in another or more languages.
 
At least a total of 25 hours per week of work is required.

Devoirs et responsabilités

Functions / Key Results Expected:
 
The Global Youth Advocate WWW2015 is expected to contribute to : 
  • Supporting the World We Want Team in content-management implementation and administration of the worldwewant2015.org platform;
  • Addressing queries through our trouble ticket system;
  • Spreading awareness regarding the World We Want Platform among the CSOs pertaining to his/her area of intervention, with special emphasis in those representing excluded/marginalize groups;
  • Increasing the number of CSO registered in World We Want & MY World and provide follow up and back up support to the existing ones;
  • Bringing activists, bloggers and tweeters together around post 2015 choices, web platforms, and social media accounts;
  • Providing administrative and other programmatic support.
Deliverables:
  •  Implementation of design changes and content uploading on worldwewant2015.org via content-management tool (drupal);
  • Overall Technical Support via support@worldwewant2015.org;
  • Updated directory of the exiting CSOs per country and ensure the expansion of the network through the same partners involved;
  • A common media storage and encourage documentation;
  • Weekly update on progress achieved, challenges and lessons learned;
  • Maintenance of all World We Want spaces.

Compétences

Core competences:
  • Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
  • Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
  • Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
  • Treats all people fairly without favouritism.
Functional competences:
  • Demonstrated ability to interact with individuals of different national and cultural backgrounds and beliefs, which includes the willingness to understand different views and opinions;
  • Ability to work under pressure, to prioritize and to show a spirit of initiative and a capacity to work in an independent way with limited supervision;
  • Self-management and emotional intelligence;
  • Excellent communication skills;
  • Ability to multi-task and work independently;
  • High degree of organization and initiative;

Qualifications et expériences requises

Education:

  • Enrollment in a graduate-level degree programme in computer science;
  • Have completed at least four years of full-time studies at a university or equivalent institution towards the completion of a degree, if pursuing their studies in countries where higher education is not divided into undergraduate and graduate stages.

Experience:

  • Experience web site administration and content management (drupal);
  • Experience in video editing and basic graphic design skills;
  • Understanding of political issues;
  • MS Office skills; Generally excellent computer skills.
Language:
  • Excellent knowledge of English;
  • Fluent in one or more of the following languages: Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese;
  • Any other language is an asset.

Important information:

Interns are not financially remunerated by UNDP.

UNDP accepts no responsibility for the medical and life insurance of the intern or costs arising from accidents and illness incurred during an internship.

The purpose of the Internship Programme is not to lead to further employment with UNDP but to complement an intern’s studies. Therefore, there should be no expectation of employment at the end of an internship.

Only a successful candidate will be required to submit the following documents: