Internship Summary:
Organization: United Nations Environment Programme
Country: Kenya
City: Nairobi
Office: UNEP Nairobi, Kenya
Grade: I-1
Work Location: Nairobi
Expected duration: 6 Months
Desired start date: 1 March 2025
Application Deadline: 21 February 2025
Duties and Responsibilities
The intern will support the GEF Coordination Office’s programmatic functions, more specifically:
- Assist in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of environmental projects. This includes coordinating with different stakeholders, ensuring project timelines are met, carry out data analysis using analytical tools to inform decision-making, data cleaning, and participating in the monitoring and evaluation of project outcomes and impacts. Additionally, preparing evaluation reports and recommending improvements.
- Assist in GEF Portfolio disclosure on key platforms such as UNEP Open Data and GEF Portal.
- Handle internal processes including project registry and follow-ups, responding to requests for GEF portfolio data, working with other team members to gather necessary information and articulate a response.
- Supporting communication and outreach activities to promote UNEP’s initiatives and engage with partners and the public.
- Assisting in following up with five GEF Focal Areas to identify and pre-empt issues, ensuring reports are delivered on time.
Qualifications/special skills
Applicants must meet one of the following requirements:
(a) be enrolled in, or have completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher).
(b) be enrolled in, or have completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor’s degree or equivalent). Academic background in programme focused on natural science, social sciences, sustainable development, communication, or economic discipline, or a related field.
Languages
English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this position fluency in English is required.
Intern Specific text
Interns are not financially remunerated by the United Nations. Costs and arrangements for travel, visas, accommodation and living expenses are the responsibility of interns or their sponsoring institutions. Interns who are not citizens or permanent residents of the country where the internship is undertaken, may be required to obtain the appropriate visa and work/employment authorization. Successful candidates should discuss their specific visa requirements before accepting the internship offer.
No Fee
THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.
Link: https://careers.un.org/jobSearchDescription/252700?language=en
