Intern - Programme Management

The internship is located with the Regional Office for West and Central Africa, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Dakar (Senegal). The internship is for six months, full-time, unpaid, supporting the Global Firearms Programme and related activities including research, event preparation, and communications.

Responsibilities

• Support the work and activities of the Global Firearms Programme, including normative and intergovernmental work, technical assistance activities, and tools development work.
• Assist in the preparation of technical assistance workshops, meetings, high-level events and conferences and support related follow up actions.
• Conduct research on legal documents, official and open sources on firearms issues and contribute to preparation of technical documents, background papers, country profiles, news events, presentations, reports, summaries, talking points and speeches.
• Conduct legal research and analysis of legislation.
• Support the work of the GFP Community of Practitioners against Firearms Trafficking.
• Conduct regular media reviews on firearms related incidents and events and disseminate weekly briefs among the GFP team, and support related follow up actions including research and tweets.
• Draft ordinary correspondence and communications, attend and take notes at meetings.
• Perform other tasks as necessary.

Requirements

• Be enrolled in, or have recently completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher) or be enrolled in, or have recently completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor's degree or equivalent).
• 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.
• Have a demonstrated ability to successfully interact with individuals of different cultural backgrounds and beliefs, including willingness to try and understand and be tolerant of differing opinions and views.
• Applicants to the UN Internship Programme are not required to have professional work experience.
• A field of study closely related to the type of internship applied for is required.
• Applicants must have good knowledge of standard software applications, especially MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Teams.
• Ability to draft news articles and/or social media posts is desirable.
• Ability to design surveys and polls is desirable.
• Fluency in spoken and written English and French is required.
• Knowledge of an additional official UN language is an advantage.

Skills

• Standard Software Applications
• MS Word
• MS PowerPoint
• MS Teams
• Drafting News Articles
• Social Media Content Creation
• Survey Design
• Poll Design
• Research Support
• Event Preparation
• Bilingual Communication

Languages

English, French