Sustainable Urban Mobility Intern

The Sustainable Urban Mobility Intern will support the Urban Mobility team in implementing projects aimed at promoting sustainable, accessible, and efficient urban mobility. The intern will assist with piloting innovative mobility solutions, conducting research, data collection and analysis, policy review, and supporting advocacy and capacity-building activities.

Responsibilities

• Assist in implementing initiatives and collaborate with technical experts to pilot small-scale innovative mobility solutions on public transport, active mobility, road safety, and electric mobility.
• Document success stories and lessons learned from field projects to showcase impact and inspire replication.
• Contribute to policy analysis by reviewing national and local mobility strategies and identifying gaps or opportunities for alignment.
• Collect data and conduct geographic/spatial analysis using GIS or mapping tools to support sustainable mobility planning.
• Conduct research on emerging trends in innovative and smart mobility, and climate resilient transport.
• Compile best practices and produce briefs, reports, and presentations for capacity-building initiatives.
• Draft, review and refine project proposals on Sustainable Urban Mobility.
• Contribute to the review of mobility commitments in global frameworks such as the SDGs and the Paris Agreement, and support monitoring efforts.
• Develop engaging communication and knowledge-sharing materials, including factsheets, publications, technical documents, infographics and social media posts.
• Support training and capacity-building activities, including Safe Routes to School and sustainable mobility planning.
• Organise advocacy initiatives such as tactical urbanism projects, placemaking events, car-free days, and community bicycle rides.
• Support stakeholder engagement by coordinating meetings, workshops, and consultations with governments, NGOs, and local communities.

Requirements

• Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher), or be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree program (minimum Bachelor's level or equivalent), or have graduated with Bachelor's degree, Masters, PhD or equivalent.
• Be computer literate in standard software applications (Microsoft Office Suite).
• Have demonstrated a 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 understand and be tolerant of differing opinions and views.
• Preferred areas of study: Urban planning, urban management, urban development, urban design, architecture, transport planning, transport engineering, transport economics, international development, environmental science, political science or another relevant field.
• Applicants to the UN Internship Programme are not required to have professional work experience but must have a field of study closely related to the internship.
• Applicants must be a student in the final year of the first university degree (bachelor or equivalent), Master’s or Ph.D. Programme or equivalent, or have completed a Bachelor’s, Master’s or Ph.D. Programme.
• Experience with Geographic Information System (GIS) and its related work is required.
• Experience in quality assurance, knowledge management, collection and dissemination of lessons learnt of projects on urban mobility and/or energy is desirable.
• Fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of another UN language is desirable.

Skills

• Microsoft Office Suite
• Geographic Information System
• Quality Assurance
• Knowledge Management
• Data Collection
• Data Analysis
• Policy Review
• Urban Planning
• Urban Management
• Urban Development
• Urban Design
• Transport Planning
• Transportation Engineering
• Transport Economics
• Environmental Sciences
• Research
• Advocacy
• Capacity Building

Languages

English, French