Background
UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s policy work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels spans from local knowledge to global perspectives and advocacy.
The Crisis Bureau (CB) is galvanizing UNDP’s efforts to support countries to build resilience by strengthening capacities to anticipate, prevent, respond to, and recover from the impacts of crises and shocks on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These efforts are geared towards reducing countries’ reliance on external humanitarian relief and peace interventions, while risk-informing development planning and decision-making to minimize creation of new risks. UNDP seeks to ensure that development perspectives are introduced as early as possible in response and recovery cycles, including approaching recovery as an opportunity to reset development practices onto more resilient, green and equitable pathways.
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In 2023, an estimated 339 million people will be in need of humanitarian assistance with funding requirements reaching an unprecedented 51,5 billion USD[RL1] . Over the past 10 years, this number has increased four-fold. People in fragile countries are living through a perpetual state of crisis, where conflicts remain unresolved, climate-related disaster events are more frequent, food insecurity is unprecedented, displacements are on the rise, and COVID-19 has reversed hard-won development gains. Humanitarian appeals are consistently underfunded and unable to address increasing needs – yet they continue to grow, and response patterns remain largely unchanged. It has been three years since the OECD-DAC passed its Recommendation on the Humanitarian-Development-Peace-Nexus and there is increasing urgency in ensuring that the principals of the Recommendation are translated into practical programmatic actions to scale-up and accelerate nexus approaches and break the cycle of crises through more coherent, complementary and effective humanitarian, development and peace actions.
Since September 2021, UNDP has been entrusted by UN agencies and DAC donors to conceive, build and run the Nexus Academy - a multi-stakeholder live training platform, bringing together humanitarians, development, and peace actors. Powered by the Crisis Academy, the training includes 7 modules, with more than 150 different learning materials and resources, including lessons learned, case studies and a fictional practical exercise. As a unique ‘common good’, it aims at forging a common understanding of the HDP Nexus approach and ensuring that organisations and people have the knowledge, skills and capacities to translate these approaches into practical actions.
Participants not only benefit from gaining up-to-date skills on how to operationalize the HDP nexus approach at global, regional and field level, but are also exposed to a strong roster of experts from across the HDP field, as well as UN, donor, government, academia and NGO leaders who explain the utmost importance of the HDP nexus approach.
Under the overall supervision of the Nexus Academy Manager, and in support of the Nexus Academy team, the intern will have the following duties and responsibilities. |
Duties and Responsibilities
1. Assist in all activities related to the preparation, rollout and follow up of/from the nexus academy trainings
2. Facilitate the engagement and mobilization of the Nexus Academy community
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Competencies
Technical / Functional Competencies:
Personal Competencies:
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Required Skills and Experience
Education: Applicants to the UNDP internship programme must at the time of application meet one of the following requirements: (a) Be enrolled in a postgraduate degree programme (such as a master’s programme, or higher); (b) Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (such as bachelor’s degree or equivalent); (c) 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; (d) Be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program and undertake the internship as part of this program. Field of study: All academic backgrounds welcome, but priority will be given to candidates with Social Sciences, International Relations, Development Economics, Political Science, Communications, or related field or equivalent. Work Experience & Desired Skillset:
Language skills:
Conditions of the Internship:
In case an applicant is successfully selected, s/he will be requested to provide electronic versions of the following documents upon selection:
Application process:
Please combine the above into one single PDF document as the system only allows to upload one document. Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. |