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UNDP Home based Management and Programme Support Specialist Vacancy for 2025. Apply Now!

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Intern Vacancy Details

Position(s): Intern – Early Warning and Preparedness
Organization: UNDP
Location: Homebased
Type of Contract: Internship
Deadline: Nov 25, 2024

About the Internship

UNDP Homebased Intern – Early Warning and Preparedness Vacancy. This internship position is intended to support UNDP’s global work on early warning and preparedness as one of the key strategic work streams of the DRT Geneva, Switzerland. The intern will support the team with training development and rollout, knowledge management and communications tasks. Multi-hazard early warning and preparedness supports the advancement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In particular, early warning systems are positioned as vital tools for decision-makers to progress towards sustainable development – supporting, for example, agricultural productivity, health, safety, overall well-being, poverty reduction and peaceful societies – providing cross-cutting benefits to nearly all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Given coherence across global frameworks, the importance of early warning systems is also recognized within the Paris Agreement and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, the implementation of these agendas in turn expediting progress in achieving the SDGs.

UNDP plays an important and unique role in supporting countries to achieve their development goals by reducing loss to life and assets, and by strengthening long term resilience. The UNDP Strategic Plan 2022-2025 contributes to the resilience-building objectives of the 2030 Agenda by committing UNDP to help countries eradicate poverty in all its forms and expand people’s choices for a fairer, more sustainable future. UNDP’s Crisis Offer outlines UNDP’s commitment to helping countries anticipate, prevent, respond to, and recover from crises

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Duties and Responsibilities

Support the rollout of capacity development services related to preparedness

Undertake research and categorization of relevant resources to support the continuous update of the UNDP Preparedness Learning Pathway and UNDP Preparedness Toolkit, including collecting UNDP project examples, country case studies and guidance materials related to preparedness and anticipation;
Support the organization of webinars for the rollout of the UNDP Preparedness Learning Pathway;
Support the organization of online events (webinars) deploying the content of the UNDP Preparedness Learning Pathway, including support to tailoring the modules to be delivered, developing session plans, engaging with facilitators and participants, developing webinar communications materials and final reports;
Support remotely the organization of face-to-face workshops deploying the content of the UNDP Preparedness Learning Pathway, including support to tailoring the modules to be delivered, developing session plans, engaging with facilitators and participants, developing country-specific communications materials in collaboration with communications specialists, consolidating pre-workshop and post-workshop evaluation forms using online forms (Google Forms; Survey Monkey), and developing final reports.

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Undertake research and analysis on topics related to preparedness

Undertake research and develop research outputs using qualitative and quantitative methodologies within thematic areas related to early warning and preparedness (for example: technology and innovation for early warning and preparedness; foresight; risk anticipation and anticipatory action; preparedness in fragile settings; etc.);
Undertake research on cross-cutting themes including disability-inclusion, gender equality and women’s leadership, digitalization and technology, and develop research outputs using qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

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Develop communications products on topics related to preparedness and cross-cutting themes

Tailor and adapt materials drawn from the rollout of the preparedness service offer as knowledge and communications products geared towards external audience such as blog stories, social media cards, briefs to be used for UNDP’s corporate website and UNDP’s presence at/ related to global events such as the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction and others;
Develop slide decks, Miro/MURAL Boards, and other interactive materials for presentations at UNDP internal events, workshops, webinars, etc.

Requirements

Enrolment in a Master’s programme or equivalent in the area of disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, disaster management, environmental management, humanitarian affairs, international development;
Have recently graduated with a university degree as defined in (a) and, if selected, must start the internship within one-year of graduation;
Be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program and undertake the internship as part of this program.

The applicant should be enrolled in a programme, as stated in requirements.

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