Background

CORPORATE BACKGROUND:

UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub, along with the Pacific Office in Suva, primarily provide the 24 UNDP Country Offices in Asia and the Pacific with easy access to knowledge through high quality advisory services and technical support based on global applied research and UNDP lessons learnt. The second priority is to provide regional thought leadership, build partnerships and promote regional capacity building, which allow UNDP, governments and other development partners to identify, create and share knowledge relevant to solving urgent development challenges.

UNDP ensures inclusive and effective democratic governance by advocating, advising, fostering impartial spaces for dialogue, achieving consensus and building institutions. UNDP helps governance institutions in countries bring constitutional reforms, organize credible elections, strengthen parliaments, and address policy and institutional options for peace, risk-reduction and development through reconciliation, empowerment and inclusion.

INTERNSHIP OFFICE BACKGROUND:

UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub is addressing gender equality, peacebuilding, and conflict-prevention through multiple regional development initiatives. It has also been sustaining robust communication and knowledge management activities to contribute to UNDP’s delivery of strengthened gender, peace and conflict-prevention results in the region. Since 2010, UNDP and its partners have been working through the N-Peace Network to promote, support and build the capacity of grassroots peace-builders across Asia and the Pacific. N-Peace is a multi-country network of peace advocates in Asia seeking to advance Women, Peace & Security (WPS). It supports women’s leadership for conflict prevention, resolution, and peace-building, and promotes the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 as well as the broader WPS agenda.  N-Peace rests on the hypothesis that if targeted women and men are supported with increased investments in capacity and skills, they will be able to create institutional and social shifts to prioritize the inclusion and empowerment of women and girls, and change the current discourse on the roles of women in peacebuilding.

N-Peace is implemented in 7 countries in the Asia-Pacific region: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka.  N-Peace focuses on four components: N-Peace Awards and advocacy through the N-Peace Awards campaign and knowledge sharing; Sustained engagement through national dialogues; Trainings and capacity building; and N-Peace Small Grants. Together, these components contribute to the achievement of the overall objectives of N-Peace: (i) to support leadership of women in building peace and preventing conflicts; and (ii) to provide a platform for engagement and increased dialogue between key actors furthering WPS and conflict prevention; (iii) to promote peace and shift the narrative of women in these contexts from victims to agents of change.

Creative digital activism is at the heart of the N-Peace initiative. N-Peace is therefore looking for the support of a digitally literate and enthusiastic intern with a deep personal interest in gender equality to get hands-on with some of our annual social media campaign work. Through the drafting and editing of videos, creating inspiring graphics and gifs, and drafting tweets and posts for social media, the social media intern at N-Peace would be encouraged to think laterally about how to best communicate N-Peace’s objectives, tell important stories, and advocate for women’s rights in conflict areas. The intern will also support other communications, knowledge management and outreach tasks broadly related to the N-Peace Network.

Duties and Responsibilities

Competencies

• Creative IT skills to develop communication visuals - including video editing and graphics design – is essential. Proficiency in using all elements of Adobe Premier Suite would be an asset;
• Excellent English writing skills, as well as strong analytical aptitude and strong communication skills, and attention to detail;
• Experience managing social media platforms, especially Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram;
• A demonstrable passion for gender equality and digital activism
• Ability to manage workload individually and collaborate with a wide range of colleagues while meeting deadlines;
• Interest and motivation in working in an international organization;
• Outgoing and initiative-taking person with a goal oriented mind-set;
• Communicates effectively when working in teams and independently;
• Good in organizing and structuring various tasks and responsibilities;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Responds positively to feedback and differing points of view;
• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Candidates must meet one of the following educational requirements:

• currently in the final year of a Bachelor’s degree; or
• currently enrolled in a Master’s degree; or
• have graduated no longer than 1 year ago from a bachelor’s degree or master’s degree or equivalent studies.

Field of study: Multimedia, Digital Communications, media studies, public relations, photojournalism, journalism, or related fields.

Language skills:

• Fluency in English (written and spoken).

INTERNSHIP CONDITIONS

• UNDP internships are not remunerated. All expenses connected with the internship will be borne by the intern or her/his sponsoring entity;
• UNDP accepts no responsibility for costs arising from accidents and/or illness or death incurred during the internship;
• Interns are responsible for obtaining necessary visas and arranging travel to and from the duty station where the internship will be performed;
• Interns are not eligible to apply for, or be appointed to, any post in UNDP during the period of the internship;
• Interns must provide proof of enrolment in health insurance plan;
• Interns are not staff members and may not represent UNDP in any official capacity;
• Interns are expected to work full time but flexibility is allowed for education programmes;
• Interns need to obtain financing for subsistence and make own arrangements for internship, travel, VISA, accommodation, etc.

NOTE: If selected for the position, interns are requested to provide a letter from university confirming current enrollment and graduation date, a copy of school transcript, a letter of endorsement from professor, a medical certificate of good health, a copy of medical insurance coverage during internship assignment in Thailand, and a copy of passport.