Background

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.

UNDP is the leading United Nations organization fighting to end the injustice of poverty, inequality, and climate change. Working with our broad network of experts and partners in 170 countries, we help nations to build integrated, lasting solutions for people and planet. Learn more at undp.org or follow at @UNDP.

UNDP Office has organized internship programme to provide a framework by which students from diverse academic backgrounds may be assigned to UNDP offices, where their educational experience can be enhanced through practical work assignments as well providing an opportunity to make substantive contributions to an office’s work. The current internship will provide opportunity for student to learn some aspects of Accelerator Lab as well as aid effectiveness, donor relations, monitoring and evaluation of development programme, gender, capacity development, and South-South Cooperation.

The UNDP Accelerator Lab is the largest and fastest learning global network on development challenges. The Lab already set up 92 labs in 116 countries embedded within UNDP’s global architecture and country platforms. We use the power of the crowd, machine learning and distributed decision making to support partners to understand problems, develop new solutions, promote more inclusive decision making, and provide better oversight of what is done. We identify grassroots solutions and stretch their potential to accelerate development.  We conduct exploration on innovative partnerships and creative utilization of data to seek emerging trends in the development sector. We apply experimentation closely with government partners to grow this as a mode of operating to reduce costs of large-scale public sector reforms. Experimentation helps us learn whether particular assumptions are accurate before deploying solutions at scale, especially in the rapidly evolving contexts that often dominate development progress.

Duties and Responsibilities

Summary of Key Responsibilities that Intern will undertake:

• Support the ongoing projects and exploratory activities in the Accelerator Lab.
• Support in research, data collection, analytical review, indicators, and result construction during field missions.
• Support in administrative tasks such as budget monitoring, contract processing and other procurement responsibilities.
• Support the development of documents such as project concept notes, presentations, terms of references for events and hiring, and meetings report.
• Support the planning and management of events organized by the unit and liaising with internal and external UNDP stakeholders.

Outputs

• Effective support for Accelerator Lab projects and exploratory activities, including its administrative components.
• Production of knowledge products and documents (research, concept notes/proposal, TORs, report, contracts, etc).
• Management of field missions and events hosted by Accelerator Lab.

Competencies

Corporate Competencies:

• Demonstrate commitment to UNDP mission, vision, and values.
• Display cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality, and age sensitivity and adaptability

Special Skills Requirement

• Demonstrated experience in writing and production of documents, with meticulous attention to detail.
• Core competencies: commitment, drive for results, and integrity.
• Functional competencies: analytical and conceptual thinking, refined writing skills.
• Familiarity with Government, private sector, NGOs and UN /UNDP are desirable.
• Having organizational experiences at students’ senate/NGOs/research institutes/community association
• Good understanding of development context in Indonesia.
• Facilitation skills, critical thinking, active listening as well as design and communication skills are desirable.

Knowledge Management and Learning

• Having high curiosity to explore
• Being reflective and empathetic are asset 
• Creativity and out of the box thinking are desirable
• Being aware of bias and assumptions
• Ability to share knowledge and experiences and to provide input  to colleagues.
• Willing to learn new knowledge in a fast-paced environment

Leadership and Self-Management

• Focus and mindful about the working process so as to bring the result effectively  
• Respond positively to feedback.
• Self-directed and resilience working under time pressures
• Consistently approach work with energy and positive attitude.
• Demonstrate openness to change and ability to manage complexity.

Required Skills and Experience

Qualifications

• Enrolment in a university degree or fresh graduate of a maximum 1 year since graduation date from International Development, Social Studies, Management, Environment Science, Engineering, Design, or other related disciplines.
• Knowledge of – or proven interest in – development and humanitarian issues.
• Good commands in Bahasa Indonesia and English
• Computer literate in standard software applications.
• Ability to operate digital platform such as Zoom, Mural, Miro and Menti are asset.
• Demonstrated keen interest in the work of the UN, and of UNDP Accelerator Labs in particular, and have a personal commitment to UNDP's Statement of Purpose and to the ideals of the UN Charter.
• Demonstrated the ability to successfully interact with individuals of different cultural backgrounds and beliefs, which include willingness to try and understand and be tolerant of differing opinions and views.
• An interest in global mobility; adaptability to varied physical and other environments; a desire to work with and gain the confidence and respect of people with different language, national and cultural backgrounds.