POSITION : INTERN - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS

A completed online application (Cover Note and Personal History Profile) is required. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.

The Cover Note must include:
• Degree Programme (What are you currently studying?)
• Graduation Date (When will you graduate or when did you graduate from the programme?)
• List the IT skills and programmes that you are proficient in.
• List your top three areas of interest.
• Explain why you are the best candidate for this specific internship.
• Explain your interest in the United Nations Internship Programme.

In your online Personal History Profile, be sure to include all past work experiences, IT skills, and three references.

Due to the high volume of applications received, ONLY successful candidates will be contacted.

Org. Setting and Reporting

The Global Compact offers two internship opportunities in its New York office. The Global Compact Office is the UN entity responsible for the overall management and coordination of the Global Compact initiative, including the management of the Global Compact's name and logo, and the Global Compact Integrity Measures. The Global Compact pursues two complementary objectives:

(1) making the Global Compact and its principles part of business strategy and operations everywhere; and
(2) facilitating cooperation among key stakeholders by promoting partnerships and other collective action in support of UN goals.

To promote its 10 principles, the Global Compact also undertakes work on a range of corporate citizenship issues, including business and human rights, anti-corruption, partnerships for development, etc. Official UN internships can be offered for a minimum of 2 months. The DM/UN Global Compact Office internship programme prefers to initiate internships for an initial period of five months with an opportunity for a one month extension, pending on the needs of the department. The internship is UNPAID and full-time. Interns work five days per week (35 hours) under the supervision of a relevant staff member of the UN Global Compact Office, based upon their assignments.

Responsibilities

Depending on their level of experience and training, interns in the Global Compact Office will:

• Perform research and analysis relating to the topic of corporate citizenship, especially on human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption;
• Draft and edit publications, papers and other documents;
• Liaise with Global Compact stakeholders on key corporate citizenship topics;
• Support the organization of meetings and events;
• Assist with outreach activities;
• Assist in the coordination of the Communication on Progress process;
• Handle e-mail and other inquiries;
• Assist in the implementation of the Global Compact's integrity measures;
• Perform administrative tasks as assigned.

Additionally, responsibilities and scope of work may vary depending upon the issue team you choose to work with. Issue teams within the Global Compact are as follows:

Anti-corruption: Encouraging business to work against corruption in all its forms; prompting companies to focus on anti-corruption measures.

Human Rights: Develop tools and offer guidance to encourage and assist companies to implement a human rights framework into their business practices. Engage in outreach to persuade companies to do as such.

Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Raise awareness of business on ways to engage respectfully and positively with indigenous peoples.

Persons with disabilities: Raise awareness of business on ways to engage respectfully and positively with persons with disabilities.

Labour: Encourage companies to implement the Global Compact's labour principles. This includes recognition of the right to collective bargaining; eliminating forced labour and child labour.

Women's Empowerment & Gender Equality: Help mainstream gender equality and women's empowerment into corporate sustainability policies, practices and initiatives by promoting implementation of the Women's Empowerment Principles, a joint initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact.

Environment: Support businesses to undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility in their business and manufacturing processes via various platforms and programmes (for additional information visit unglobalcompact.org/Issues/Environment/index.html)

Business and Peace: Provides a dynamic forum to help companies operating in "conflict-prone," "weak" or "post-conflict" areas explore solutions to the dilemmas unique to their situation.

PRME: Encourage business schools and academia to integrate corporate responsibility and sustainability into their curricula and learning material.

Business of Tomorrow: Challenges and supports approximately 50 global corporations to reach higher levels of performance through collaboration on advanced approaches to corporate sustainability.

COP Team: Follows up with Global Compact participants to obtain the Communication on Progress submissions and ensure compliance to GCO principles.

Communications & Media: Position the UN Global Compact as the global thought leader on corporate sustainability to participants, stakeholders and the media through our diverse issue portfolio, publications, events, websites and a variety of other communications channels.

Local Networks: Local Networks are groups of participants that come together to advance the Global Compact and its principles within a particular country or geographic region. Their role is to facilitate the progress of participants in the implementation and advancement of the ten principles, while also creating opportunities for multi-stakeholder engagement and collective action.

Competencies

• Communication: Ability to draft clearly and concisely, good written and oral language skills.
• Teamwork: Good interpersonal skills, ability to work collaboratively with colleagues from different national and cultural backgrounds to achieve organizational goals.
• Client Orientation: Considers all those to whom services are provided to be ‘clients’ and seeks to see things from clients’s point of view.

Education

To qualify for an internship with the United Nations Internship Programme, the following conditions must be met:
• Applicants must meet one of the following requirements: (a) be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher); (b) be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor’s level or equivalent); or (c) have graduated with a university degree (as defined above) and, if selected, must commence the internship within a one year period of graduation;
• Be computer literate in standard software applications;
• Have a demonstrated keen interest in the work of the United Nations and have a personal commitment to the ideals of the Charter; and
• Have a demonstrated 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.

Work Experience

Applicants are not required to have professional work experience for participation in the programme. However, applicants are encouraged to list all relevant work experience in their personal history profile.

Languages

Fluency in one of the working languages of the UN Secretariat, English or French, (both oral and written) is required; knowledge of the other is desirable. Knowledge of another UN official language is an advantage

Assessment

Potential candidates will be contacted by hiring manager directly for further consideration

United Nations Considerations

Job openings posted on the Careers Portal are taken off at midnight (New York time) on the deadline date.

Applications are automatically pre-screened according to the published evaluation criteria of the job opening on the basis of the information provided by applicants. Applications cannot be amended following submission and incomplete applications shall not be considered. The selected candidate will be subject to a reference checking process to verify the information provided in the application.

Applicants are urged to follow carefully all instructions available in the online recruitment platform, inspira. For more detailed guidance, applicants may refer to the At-a-Glance on "The Application Process" and the Instructional Manual for the Applicants, which can be accessed by clicking on “Manuals” on the upper right side of the browser on Inspira.

The United Nations shall place no restrictions on the eligibility of men and women to participate in any capacity and under conditions of equality in its principal and subsidiary organs. (Charter of the United Nations - Chapter 3, article 8). The United Nations Secretariat is a non-smoking environment.

Candidates will be required to meet the requirements of Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter as well as the requirements of the position. The United Nations is committed to the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity for all its human resources, including but not limited to respect for international human rights and humanitarian law. Candidates may be subject to screening against these standards, including but not limited to whether they have committed, or are alleged to have committed criminal offences and/or violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law.