Internship Programme Guidelines

The United Nations University (UNU) is an international community of scholars engaged in research, postgraduate training and knowledge dissemination to promote the United Nations' aims of peace and progress. The UNU serves as a bridge between the UN and the academic community, and as a think-tank for the UN system. The mission of UNU is to contribute, through research and capacity building, particularly in developing countries, to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems that are the concern of the United Nations, its Peoples and Member States.

UNU conducts these activities through a multidisciplinary network of its own research and training centers and programmes (RTC/Ps), and of individual scientists and
institutions the world over. UNU's efforts are divided into two thematic areas: Peace and Governance and Environment and Sustainable Development. Within these areas the University undertakes research and training on a broad range of issues.

The UNU Office at the United Nations, New York liaises with the UN Secretariat, the Permanent Missions, American academia and foundations in five areas of activities:

• Dissemination/communication: Showcasing the work of UNU, particularly through public events organized in the UN Secretariat.

• Political and diplomatic linking: Helping to make UNU a stakeholder and full-fledged partner of the UN system, i.e., its agendas, processes and results.
• Academic interplay between UNU, the UN system, diplomatic missions to the UN and US academia: Helping to secure the intellectual and institutional voice of UNU in the UN system, with the diplomatic missions to the UN and academia in North America.
• Fundraising: Given its geographic proximity to numerous foundations in the New York-Washington D.C. areas, UNU-NY plays a role in fundraising. This role can be played at three levels: project level, programme (RTC/Ps) level, and the overall UNU system level.
• Administrative: UNU-NY plays an important role in administrative support and coordination (travel, personnel, procurement, finance) between UNU System and the UN

Qualifications required:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
• Knowledge of at least two official UN languages desirable
• Good writing skills,
• Good research skills
• Ability to work with and in a team

Internships stretch from August to January and from February to July. The internships are unpaid.

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Application procedure:
Please email the following:

1. cover letter
2. resume/CV
3. 1 - 3 page writing sample in English and another language of your choice (French preferable)
4. Fill out the internship application form  available on http://fs.ony.unu.edu/internapplication.doc

To the UNU Office at [email protected] (subject line: Internship).