Exciting Paid Internship: Apply for the Remote UNICEF Internship on UN Partnerships

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Closing Date: 11 Jun 2025

Exciting Paid Internship: Apply for the Remote UNICEF Internship on UN Partnerships

Overview

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, UNICEF works for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone and never give up.

To create a world where the rights of every child are realized, UNICEF builds meaningful partnerships with the public and the private sector, to advocate on behalf of children worldwide and to leverage resources for programmes in their support.

Focusing on the public sector, UNICEF’s Public Partnerships Division works to achieve two outcomes: 1) The rights and interests of children are effectively translated into policies, programmes and budgets of public partners at all levels; and 2) Adequate, flexible and predictable resources are mobilized and leveraged to achieve results for children.

How can you make a difference?

The UN Partnerships Team in UNICEF’s Public Partnerships Division in New York is looking for an intern to support the team in shaping and building partnerships to achieve results for children worldwide.

This UNICEF Internship on UN Partnerships is an exciting opportunity to obtain an in-depth understanding of the functioning of UNICEF and its work, from high-level political engagement to liaising with colleagues in the field, at country and regional level and across headquarters divisions.

Under the supervision of the Public Partnership Manager, the intern will support various aspects of external relations, knowledge management and development of strategies and approaches to relevant thematic areas.

Main tasks

Analyze United Nations Development System survey results to Country Representatives
Provide a strategic analysis of ECOSOC discussions
Support analysis of the latest UN Reforms – UN80
Follow Executive Board sessions, providing accurate readouts of relevant segments
Support in the coordination of UNICEF strategic engagement in assigned multilateral and interagency fora (UNSDG, CEB, HLCM, HLCP, EC/DC)
Support in preparing briefing notes and any other documentation required for participation of Senior Staff in relevant meetings
Organize consultations and other convenings with assigned partners, including by preparing meetings readouts
Support the Office’s knowledge management, reinforcing institutional memory and regularly updating the Team’s intranet pages
Manage day-to-day contacts with colleagues and focal points in UNICEF and UN sister agencieS
Maintain up-to-date information on UNICEF positions on relevant topics
Draft social media content highlighting the work of the UN Partnerships team and UN Reform
Support interagency meeting preparations for principals

Training components and learning elements

Participation in UNICEF partnerships meetings
Guidance in relation to training opportunities within the field of expertise
Access to UNICEF’s mentoring programmes as available

Participation in missions or training courses

The intern will have access to a wide range of PPD/UNICEF knowledge sharing and capacity-building opportunities, e.g., thematic webinars and online trainings.

To qualify you will have…

Recent graduate with a master’s degree, or currently enrolled in a graduate programme, in International Relations, Social Sciences, Development or related field, including a relevant background and interest in these topic
Very good command of Microsoft Office working environment and applications, especially Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3)Drive to achieve results for impact