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UNDP is Recruiting for a Home-based Food & Agricultural Commodity Systems Community Intern

AdminAugust 31, 2024

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Application Deadline : 4 September 2024

UNDP is Recruiting for a Home-based Food & Agricultural Commodity Systems Community Intern

Background

UNDP works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. UNDP help countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and build resilience in order to sustain development results.

UNDP is working to strengthen new frameworks for development, disaster risk reduction and climate change. UNDP support countries’ efforts to achieve the new Sustainable Development Goals, which will guide global development priorities through 2030. The key 2030 Agenda principle of leaving no one behind and stamping out inequality is at the core of everything we do.

UNDP focuses on helping countries build and share solutions in three main areas:

Sustainable development
Democratic governance and peacebuilding

Climate and disaster resilience

In all its activities, UNDP encourage the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women, minorities, and the poorest and most vulnerable.

In 2010 UNDP launched the Green Commodities Programme (GCP) – currently known as Food and Agricultural Commodity Systems (FACS) – to improve the national economic, social, and environmental performance of agricultural commodity sectors. FACS works within agricultural commodity production in countries of UNDP operation where the programme can have significant impact on the livelihood of farmers and their communities and can protect high conservation value forests and important vulnerable ecosystems

Duties and Responsibilities

The Food & Agricultural Commodity Systems Community Intern will provide support to the UNDP Food & Agricultural Commodity Systems Community team in:

Provide generic support with the back-office of the community digital platform (Hivebrite) and upload relevant content (posts, events, resources, videos, lessons learned),
Support with organization and delivery of virtual events including Zoom technical support during the event

Collate Community-related data for internal and donor monitoring (events, membership, etc.),
Support with the ongoing maintenance and updating of the Community databases,
Support with the organization of internal & external calls, and preparation of meeting minutes or reports when needed,

Support with video editing and/or uploading on online video sharing platform(s), and creating content for newsletters/bulletins,
Any other tasks as requested by the Community team.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

a) Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor level or equivalent) in a relevant study area, such as environmental management, agriculture, sustainable development, economics, global development, social or political sciences, or any other related field.

b) Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher) such as environmental management, agriculture, sustainable development, economics, global development, social or political sciences, or any other related field.

c) Or Have recently graduated with a university degree (as defined in (a) and (b) in environmental management, agriculture, sustainable development, economics, global development, social or political sciences, or any other related field and, if selected, must start the internship within one-year of graduation.

Experience:

– Familiarity and previous usage of video conferencing software (Zoom), online visual collaboration platforms (e.g. MURAL, MIRO), online graphic design platforms (e.g. Adobe, Canva);

– Knowledge of Community management platforms (e.g. Hivebrite) is a plus;

– Excellent IT skills including MS Office;

– Experience with data collection for analysis;

Language Requirements:

– Fluency in English is required.

– Fluency in Spanish is an advantage.

Institutional Arrangements

The Food & Agricultural Commodity Systems Community intern will report to the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Analyst.

Financial aspects, expenses and medical benefits

UNDP will not pay for the internship but may provide a monthly stipend in accordance with the provisions of the UNDP Internship policy;
UNDP accepts no responsibility for the medical insurance for the intern or for any costs arising from accidents and/or illness during the internship period. Interns, whether engaged in-person or remotely, are responsible for securing adequate medical insurance for the duration of their internship with UNDP and must provide self-certification of good health prior to starting the internship. UNDP will not reimburse the medical insurance of the intern. Any costs arising from accidents and illness incurred during a UNDP internship assignment will be the responsibility of the intern.
UNDP is not responsible for any claims by an intern or third party in the case of loss or damage to property or death or personal injury as a result of actions or omissions on the part of the intern during the UNDP internship period.