Duties and Responsibilities

A. Support communication efforts of the awareness campaign during October Mental Health month.
• Contribute to the development of a communications campaign and planning of a communications campaign for October Mental Health Month.
• Assist in the design, preparation, implementation of campaign materials, including posters, brochures, presentations, videos, etc.
• Promote awareness of existing resources, such as the Well-being app, intranet SharePoint, etc.
• Participate in the evaluation of the campaign’s effectiveness and impact.

B. Assist in enhancing the branding of existing well-being training materials and related mental health support resources.
• Contribute to the design of the Well-being team’s branding package for existing training materials.
• Assist in design of communication guidelines for internal training or group sessions.
• Contribute to the creation of engaging content to improve communication of well-being training and group sessions.

C. General Support:
• Assist with the maintenance, monitoring, and update of the Intranet/SharePoint Pages related to well-being, as needed.
• Assist in creating a SharePoint page dedicated to existing learning resources/repository.
• Support the curation of relevant internal and UN-wide well-being updates, events, news, and announcements, though Viva Engage, SharePoint and the Well-being App and incorporate existing data and materials into communication efforts.

• Contribute to managing the Well-being community space on UNDP’s corporate social media (Viva Engage), keep the community active and comments duly responded to.
• Other tasks relevant to the mandate of the Well-being team as required.

Competencies

Achieve Results: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline – Level 1
Think Innovatively: Open to creative ideas/know risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements – Level 1
Learn Continuously: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback – Level 1

Adapt with Agility: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible – Level 1
Act with Determination: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confidence – Level 1
Engage and Partner: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships – Level 1
Enable Diversity and Inclusion: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination – Level 1

Required Skills and Experience

Education:
Applicants to UNDP internships must at the time of application meet one of the following academic requirements:
a) Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher) in Human Resources, Marketing, Communications, Social Sciences, Graphic design or related field;
b) Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor’s level or equivalent) in Human Resources, Marketing, Communications, Social Sciences or related field.
c) Have graduated with a university degree (as defined in (a) and (b) above) and, if selected, must start the internship within one year of graduation.

Experience:
– Experience in writing, copy-editing, blogging, journalism, social media engagement or online content/website management would be a distinct advantage.
– Experience with mental health and well-being services is an asset.
Knowledge of In-Design, Canva or other design or illustration software used to create multimedia communications products would be an asset.
– Understanding of mental health and passion for personnel well-being, training, psychoeducation is an advantage.
– High ethics and confidentiality.

Language Requirements:
– Fluency in English is required.
– Knowledge of Spanish, French or other UN languages would be an asset.