Batch recruitment – Internships (Grants Management) – Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Hosted Fund,Remote, 6 months, REQ:577860

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each youngster, in every single place, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means hand over. 

For each youngster, EDUCATION 

In case you are a dedicated, inventive skilled and are keen about making an enduring distinction for youngsters and youth entitled to an training in emergencies, we wish to hear from you.

Training Can not Wait (ECW) is the primary world multilateral fund devoted to supporting training for youngsters and youth in nations affected by wars, disasters and crises. It was launched on the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 by a broad coalition of worldwide support companies and private and non-private donors to usher in quicker and extra sustainable training responses in crises settings. ECW conjures up political dedication to financing training in humanitarian contexts, catalyzes monetary assets, facilitates joint programming between humanitarian and improvement actors, empowers native companions and seeks to strengthen high quality and accountability.

ECW is hosted by UNICEF. The Fund is run beneath UNICEF’s monetary, human assets and administrative guidelines and laws, whereas operations are run by the Fund’s personal impartial governance construction that gives strategic steering and oversight to its investments. ECW’s day-to-day actions are carried out by a Secretariat beneath the path of the ECW Director.

ECW Internship Programme gives certified and eligible college students/graduates the chance to amass direct sensible expertise in worldwide improvement work in training beneath the direct supervision of the GM workforce beneath the Finance and Operations part on the ECW Secretariat.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

Objective of the internship:

Beneath the steering of the Chief of Finance and Operations and the direct supervision of the Programme Funding Supervisor, The GM workforce is looking for the 2 intern(s) who will present technical and operational help to varied processes in grant-making together with administration of grants-related information, monitoring of experiences and requests, coordination with ECW grantees and companions, evaluation of assurance actions, and facilitation of ECW’s data administration.

Important duties:

• Administering grants-related information: Coming into and organizing grants-related information within the ECW Grants Database (DB) beneath the steering of Data Methods Supervisor and supply a set of information or evaluation thereof to ECW Secretariat employees and grantees upon request.
• Organizing grants-related information: Submitting and organizing grants-related paperwork corresponding to experiences and contracts within the repository of the Grants DB.
• Monitoring experiences and requests: Registering and monitoring experiences and requests from grantees and guaranteeing they’re appropriately crammed out and cleared by related colleagues of ECW Secretariat.
• Coordinating with ECW Secretariat employees and grantees: Responding to quite a lot of grants-related inquiries from ECW Secretariat employees and grantees whereas additionally amassing important info from them to facilitate the grant-making processes.
• Analyzing experiences on assurance actions: Analyzing experiences associated to assurance actions corresponding to spot verify, audit, and micro-assessment, and getting ready a quick abstract of the findings with prompt actions.
• Facilitating data administration: Managing and enhancing ECW data administration website for inside studying functions by amassing info from related ECW Secretariat employees.

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should have… 

• Be at the very least 18 years outdated on the time of utility.
• Be enrolled in a level programme in an undergraduate or graduate faculty or have graduated throughout the previous two years.
• Have a tutorial background in any of the next:
  • Enterprise administration and worldwide (humanitarian) improvement.
  • Accounting and monetary administration, with emphasis on not-for-profit enterprise.
  • Different social science specializations that require quantitative methodology. 
• Be proficient in English (talking, writing & studying) as much as the very best commonplace. Fluency in French can be required (DELF B2 degree or above).
• Have glorious tutorial efficiency as demonstrated by college information.
• Don’t have any speedy family members (e.g., father, mom, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF workplace or within the ECW Secretariat.
• Should not disqualified beneath the UNICEF Baby Safeguarding Personnel Requirements (DHR/STANDARDS/2019/001), or as amended.

ECW is dedicated to range and inclusion inside its workforce, and encourages certified candidates from all nationwide, spiritual, and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals residing with disabilities, to use to change into part of our group.

We count on distant on-line work to be the usual however profitable candidates should have the ability to decide to being on-line throughout Geneva working hours. Workplace area is offered in New York and Geneva primarily based on dialogue. Candidates who’re within the USA or Switzerland on the time of utility (for the US with a sound OPT/CPT if worldwide pupil) are personally accountable for arranging any visa or immigration necessities, masking the whole interval of their internship.

The internship is full-time (35 hrs) and dealing hours are versatile and set-up in mutual dialogue with the supervisor contemplating present research commitments. Interns shall be related to the ECW Secretariat Finance and Operations part beneath which Grants Administration workforce sits. Interns might take as much as 2.5 days monthly off work for any purpose, together with for medical causes. The stipend shall be decreased for any absence past this quota.

Deadline for purposes: December twenty sixth, 2024, at midnight NY jap commonplace time (EST)

ECW is in search of two interns in whole. Anticipated beginning date: between January and February 2025. Most well-liked length: at the very least 6 months; 26 weeks. An internship could also be terminated by both occasion, with a discover interval of at the very least two weeks.

Interns will obtain a stipend primarily based on their location. USD 1,700 monthly within the following workplaces: New York, Geneva, and Copenhagen; or 70% of the month-to-month wage of the GS degree 3 step 1 in all different the responsibility stations.

ECW follows UNICEF’s guidelines and laws in human assets administration. Candidates are inspired to learn the FAQs on the UNICEF Internship program – which apply additionally to ECW – obtainable at these hyperlinks:

INTERNSHIPS-Start your career with UNICEF

https://www.unicef.org/about/employ/index_faq.html or

https://unicef.sharepoint.com/sites/DHR/SitePages/Internship-Programme.aspx 

For each Baby, you reveal… 

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every little thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…

1. Builds and maintains partnerships
2. Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness
3. Drive to attain outcomes for affect
4. Innovates and embraces change
5. Manages ambiguity and complexity
6. Thinks and acts strategically
7. Works collaboratively with others.

Through the recruitment course of, we take a look at candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our world workforce should mirror the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.

We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer further info to conduct a background verify.

Remarks:  

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station, which shall be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments might also be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities workers which are thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the correct to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or crucial inoculation necessities usually are not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any purpose.

Solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.