UNICEF is Recruiting for 2 Internships with Advocacy Team (monthly stipend of $1,700 + $1,000 for visa costs and travel to NYC)

Ednah Carrick August 26, 2024

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Closing Date: 3 September 2024

UNICEF is Recruiting for 2 Internships with Advocacy Team (monthly stipend of $1,700 + $1,000 for visa costs and travel to NYC)

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, UNCEF work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

UNICEF’s Community Health and Nutrition Advocacy Team is hiring two advocacy interns to support the team for six months starting in September 2024. These paid internships are located in the Division of Global Communication and Advocacy. The advocacy interns will be supervised by the Nutrition Advocacy Manager and the Advocacy Specialist responsible for the Gates Foundation advocacy partnership.

UNICEF is looking for individuals who are passionate about securing new policies, resources, and commitments which will accelerate action on child survival. UNICEF uses a range of advocacy tactics and approaches to reach decision makers and the public, and an interest in learning more about how change happens is a necessity for this role. Working collaboratively with UNICEF offices and partners is a core part of the advocacy team’s role, and UNICEF is looking for individuals with a passion for partnership and coordination. UNICEF strength as a team is driven by good communications, teamwork, and a collective determination for high-impact actions and activities.

How can you make a difference?

The Internships with Advocacy Team aim to provide an opportunity to be embedded into UNICEF’s community health and nutrition advocacy team, to learn more about global advocacy and communications strategies, initiatives, and activities, while also providing opportunities the selected individuals can undertake and lead on key tasks and projects to contribute to the team’s overall goals. Successful candidates will have an opportunity to work on UNICEF’s global advocacy and communications moments and priority workstreams, which could include report launches, data releases, influencing the outcomes of political processes and meetings, and major political forums.

Both advocacy interns will have the opportunity to work on multiple issue areas and on cross-cutting projects, but one intern will focus primarily on nutrition and the other will focus primarily on immunization and maternal/child health.

Key tasks during the internship will include:

Supporting the coordination of meetings, webinars, and workshops, and producing relevant resources for these

Desk research and writing key messages and short advocacy briefs on nutrition and other child survival topics

Attending and supporting planning meetings, partnership and advocacy grant related meetings and workshops, and other internal events

Improving and supporting internal coordination systems for knowledge sharing across UNICEF offices (using SharePoint)

Prepare pitch decks or presentations for advocacy and communications activities

Eligibility

For the Internships with Advocacy Team, UNICEF is looking for students and recent graduates with a background in international development, public health, public policy, or international affairs who see themselves in an NGO/non-profit sector advocacy, policy or communications role in the future. A background in communications, advocacy, or related fields with demonstrable knowledge in vaccines, food systems, nutrition, public health or international development is desirable. This role requires strong writing and organizational skills, and attention to detail.

If that sounds like you, apply by submitting your CV and a PPT presentation of no more than 5 slides, which answers the following questions. Please note your PPT is your cover letter, no other cover letter is necessary, nor will it be considered.

Who are you, why are you interested in doing an internship at UNICEF, and what do you hope to get out of it?

UNICEF’s global advocacy aims to secure public and political will for action on child survival. We work with UNICEF offices around the world, including many donor governments who provide essential financing to support services to improve nutrition, vaccines, and children’s health in low-income countries.

In your PPT:

Please set out what you think are the reasons governments should continue to invest in child survival?

Set out three activities or approaches you recommend that UNICEF can take to ensure children’s health is prioritized by governments.

Write an Instagram post in the voice of UNICEF’s Executive Director calling for investment in child survival.

Qualifications

Be enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate, or Ph.D. degree programme or have graduated within the past two years.

Applicants must be at least 18 years old.

Have a relevant background in nutrition, food systems, community health, global health, or international development. Experience in a prior NGO/non-profit role, especially in advocacy and communications, is an asset.

Excellent writing and research skills, including experience in writing short reports and briefing notes.

Experience developing or maintaining knowledge management tools and systems is desirable.

Good working knowledge and experience across Microsoft SharePoint, Word, PowerPoint, Excel is required.

Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

Have excellent academic performance as demonstrated by recent university or institution records.

Have no immediate relatives (e.g. father, mother, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF office; and have no other relatives in the line of authority that the intern will report to.