UNFPA Global Internship Programme 2024 for Young Graduates
Deadline: 31st December 2023 11:59 PM
Type of funding: Fully Funded
Location: To be decided
UNFPA, the UN agency committed to ending maternal deaths, promoting family planning, and eradicating gender-based violence, invites individuals to join their internship program. Enrolling in postgraduate or undergraduate programs, recent graduates, or professional trainees can experience diverse fields, receive a stipend, and play a crucial role in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals. There are no application fees. They aim to create lasting impact and realize the shared vision. Interested individuals can apply now for a transformative journey with UNFPA.
UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, strives to create a world where every pregnancy is wanted, childbirth is safe, and the potential of every young person is realized. The agency focuses on promoting gender equality and empowering women, girls, and young individuals to assert control over their bodies and futures. Working in collaboration with partners across more than 150 countries, UNFPA offers access to a wide array of sexual and reproductive health services. Their mission is to end unmet family planning needs, prevent avoidable maternal deaths, and eliminate gender-based violence and harmful practices, such as child marriage and female genital mutilation, by 2030. UNFPA’s guiding principle is “Ensuring rights and choices for all.”
UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.
In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.
UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.
Compensation and Benefits:
Interns who do not receive financial support from an outside party (such as an academic institution, university, government) are eligible to receive a stipend as a contribution towards living expenses. The stipend is based on the intern’s agreed place of work, which may be different from the duty station of the hiring office in cases of remote arrangements. The stipend is normally paid in local currency at the end of each month.
Eligibility Criteria :
Applicants to the UNFPA internship programme must at the time of application meet one of the following requirements:
- Be enrolled in a postgraduate degree programme (such as a master’s programme, or higher);
- Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (such as bachelor’s degree or equivalent);
- 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;
- Be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program and undertake the internship as part of this program.
- A person who is the child or sibling of a UNFPA staff member is not eligible to apply for an internship at UNFPA. An applicant who bears any other family relationship with a UNFPA staff member may be engaged as an intern, provided that they must neither be assigned to the same work unit of the staff member nor be placed under the direct or indirect supervision of the staff member.
Required Competencies:
Values:
- Exemplifying integrity,
- Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system,
- Embracing cultural diversity,
- Embracing change.
Core Competencies:
- Achieving results,
- Being accountable,
- Developing and applying professional expertise/business acumen,
- Thinking analytically and strategically,
- Working in teams/managing ourselves and our relationships.
Eligible Regions: Global
Official link: https://www.unfpa.org/jobs/global-internship-roster
