Join UN Women as a Women Economic Empowerment Intern based in Kenya: Apply Now!
Closing Date: 2 February 2025
Join UN Women as a Women Economic Empowerment Intern based in Kenya: Apply Now!
Background
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
UN Women’s regional representation for East and Southern Africa (ESA) is comprised of 12 Country Offices (COs), one programme presence (Somalia), and support to 11 UN Country Teams (UNCTs) where UN Women is a non-resident agency (NRA). All are coordinated and supported by the Regional Office (RO) in Kenya. ESA is a complex and diverse region comprised of sub-regions ranging from countries with weak governance prone to crises that cross borders, while other sub-regions represent middle-income countries that are relatively stable.
The women’s economic empowerment context in the East and Southern Africa region (ESAR) remains complex and dynamic underpinned by climate related factors, conflict/displacement/fragility, micro and macro level shocks such as the COVID 19 pandemic as well as the on-going conflict between Ukraine and Russia that has negatively affected basic commodity prices, agricultural inputs, and food systems in the region. These have and continue to disproportionately impact women and girls due to pre-existing structural gender inequalities before and during the crisis.
The main agenda of the Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Programme is to strengthen women’s economic autonomy through increasing access to quality livelihood opportunities, and support women and girls in their innovations, social enterprises, and capacities to secure social, economic and environmental assets and knowledge. The key focus areas for 2023 are: (1) Climate Resilient Agriculture and ensuring a just transition to the blue and green economies; (2) The Care Economy; and (3) women’s empowerment through entrepreneurship development, decent work and the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement.
UN Women ESARO seeks to hire a Women Economic Empowerment intern to support the WEE portfolio
Description of Responsibilities
- Support the Policy Specialist to review/conduct economic empowerment related research from a gender economics perspective
- Support the Policy Specialist in programme management and implementation
- Support the Policy Specialist in various communications tasks such as writing position papers, talking points, website articles, developing social media posts, etc.
- Support the Policy Specialist on administrative tasks as required
Learning goals include:
- Enhanced knowledge on gender equality and women’s economic empowerment
- Enhanced knowledge on gender and economics in development in Africa
- Enhance knowledge on the programmatic and operational aspects of working at UN Women
Qualifications
Education:
- University studies in one of the following disciplines: feminist/gender economics.
- Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher); or Be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program which is part of a degree programme and undertake the internship as part of the program requirements.
- a) Be enrolled in a postgraduate degree programme (such as a master’s programme, or higher);
- b) Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (such as bachelor’s degree or equivalent);
- c) Have recently graduated with a university degree (as defined in (a) and (b) above) and, if selected, must start the UN Women internship within two-years of graduation.
Language:
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral) in English are required;
- Working knowledge of another UN language is an advantage.
Renumeration:
Interns who are not in receipt of financial support from other sources such as universities or other institutions will receive a stipend from UN Women to partially subsidize their basic living costs for the duration of the UN Women internship.
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