VACANCY NOTICE
UNICEF

Position: Information Management Intern for Gender Section, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal
> Job no: 555262
> Contract type: Internship
> Duty Station: Kathmandu
> Level: Internship
> Location: Nepal
> Categories: Gender Development

How can you make a difference?
Background and Rationale:

UNICEF’s mission is to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. Gender equality is essential to realising UNICEF’s mandate, identified as one of the most fundamental challenges to sustainable development1 and a significant detractor from fulfilling UNICEF’s mission and mandate. UNICEF’s new Strategic Plan (SP) 2022-2025 continues to emphasise gender equality and the empowerment of girls and women as a guiding principle. It incorporates a new approach to transforming structural barriers and gender norms that are the underlying drivers of gender inequality. UNICEF’s new Gender Action Plan III (GAP), 2022-2025 emphasises a transformative gender approach to programming in all areas of UNICEF’s work across the humanitarian and development nexus. By adopting its most progressive and forward-looking SP, Gender Policy, and Gender Action Plan to date, UNICEF is committed to advancing bold, transformative change toward a more gender equal world. These plans recognise that to achieve success, gender must be integrated into all of UNICEF’s programmatic work, by undertaking new, targeted and transformative actions for adolescent girls. UNICEF is committed to placing the rights, well-being and leadership of adolescent girls at the very core of what we do, with actions that promote girls’ health, nutrition, learning and skills, as well as protection from violence, exploitation, abuse and harmful practices across the life course.

The gender priorities for the 2022-2025 programming cycle for the South Asia Region (ROSA) have been identified through an in-depth gender analysis of the context-specific, cross-cutting gender concerns across the eight countries in the region. Three key gender priorities are identified as strategic foci for ROSA to address the root causes and drivers of gender inequality, setbacks and challenges exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic (discussed above), and the impact of humanitarian emergencies, including climate change impacts, natural disasters, political and economic crises. These three strategic foci, which are aligned with UNICEF’s overall SP and GAP III programmatic acceleration areas and are reflected in the regional gender theory of change are:
i. Health Nutrition and WASH;
ii. Learning and Skills; and
iii. Protection from all Harmful practices and Gender Based Violence.

Purpose:
The overall purpose of this internship is to support the Gender section in information and knowledge management (including virtual resources), database construction and utilization, and standardization of communication products.

Working Conditions:
Duration: The internship will last 6 months, starting from 15th October 2022.

Location: The intern will work remotely (with the possibility to work at the South Asia Regional Office in Kathmandu, Nepal to be determined due to Covid-19). The candidate selected will be governed by and subject to UNICEF’s General Terms and Conditions for interns.

Financial support: UNICEF will also provide a monthly stipend in accordance with UNICEF rules and recommendations – if this is not covered by the University. All other costs will be borne by the university/candidate.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Required Education, Skills and Experiences:
> Recently completed or currently pursuing a University Degree in any discipline
> Knowledge and experience of working on sharepoint and Excel
> Strong interest in using different ICT tools
> Interest in creating designs and developing communication products
> Excellent computer literacy (Microsoft Office products)
> A minimum of 6 months of relevant professional experience
> Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
> Fluency in written and spoken English is required.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA).

To view our competency framework, please visit?here.

Required competencies:
> Demonstrate initiative, creativity and enthusiasm
> Able to work well in a team environment
> Ability to quickly understand instructions, ask for clarification when needed, adapt and work independently to produce results on time
> Ability to learn fast and respond positively to feedback
> Analytical and conceptual thinking
> Attention to details
> Highest standards of integrity, discretion and loyalty.

Application Deadline:30 Sep 2022 Nepal Standard Time

HOW TO APPLY
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