Duties and Responsibilities

The Intern will be expected to help monitor, identify and analyze global trends related to sustainable development, in one of the following thematic tracks: 1. Financing for Development: Assisting with analysis and research for the stocktaking of the Secretary-General’s Finance Strategy for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Supporting workstreams under the Financing for Development, and preparations for upcoming events, including the Summit of the Future, the Financing for Development Summit, G20, G77, etc. Supporting the Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development on an ad-hoc basis, including in the lead-up to COP29. 2. Environment: Advocating for the implementation of the Paris Agreement through related process such as the UN Ocean Conference, the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, reduction in plastic pollution, climate adaptation and mitigation, and the New Urban Agenda, among others environmental goals. 3. Health: Supporting the Secretary-General’s efforts to strengthen global health systems, advancing pandemic preparedness, adopting universal health coverage, promoting mental health advocacy, developing institutional capacity for health services in underserved regions. 4. Gender: Supporting the Secretary General’s office mandate to respect gender equality across the world, through equal labour opportunities, remuneration, and recognition, protect women and girls from systemic discrimination and violence, and increase opportunities for gender empowerment, worldwide.

5. Reforms and Interagency Coordination: Supporting oversight and coordination of recommendations and follow up of intergovernmental decisions outlined in the Secretary-General’s “Our Common Agenda” Report related to sustainable development. 6. Governance, Peace, and Security: Supporting analysis, initiatives, forums and engagements on humanitarian, peace and development matters. Contributing to monitoring, analysis and engagement on priority regions, countries, and topics, including the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, the Great Lakes Region, Haiti, and Afghanistan; the collaboration with the African Union; and climate security and advancing development in complex settings. Contributing to aspects of the United Nations reform, particularly those that pertain to cross-pillar collaboration and coherence.

7. Disability Inclusion and Leaving No One Behind: Supporting the coordinated implementation of the United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy by entities and UN country teams across both programmes and operations, including by contributing to: collection and review of good practice; research, analysis and monitoring of the Strategy; provisioning of technical assistance; and outreach to external stakeholders, including organizations of persons with disabilities. Supporting analysis, initiatives, forums and engagements related to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda commitment to Leave No One Behind. 8. SDG Data: Contributing to the implementation of priority use cases under the Secretary- General’s Data Strategy including assisting with data financing fundraising efforts, supporting advocacy efforts to fill SDG data gaps and improving distribution of United Nations data. 9. Sustainable Food Systems: Supporting the team advance on the Office’s efforts related to the transformation of food systems, to make them more sustainable, while providing greater food security to all. Support in relevant projects to move forward on the Secretary General’s Call to Action for Accelerated food systems’ transformation. Please specify which track you are best suited for in your cover letter.

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 such as Master’s degree or equivalent, Ph.D. or postgraduate degree); b) Be enrolled in or have completed the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor’s level or equivalent).

No working experience is required to apply for the United Nations Internship Programme. Your training, education, advance course work or skills should benefit the United Nations during your internship.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the position advertised, fluency in English is required.