Innovative Finance Intern (2 vacancies), Innovative Finance Hub, Helsinki, Finland, Full time, 26 Weeks (in person or remote)

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each baby, in all places, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means hand over. 

For each baby, a chance

UNICEF’s Revolutionary Finance Hub, based in 2022, goals to catalyze world capital in help of kids to fill the SDG hole and radically speed up progress in direction of the SDGs. We sit at a singular vantage level the place a company engaged on world points meets the startup considering, new concepts, and companions to show this vitality into scalable options.

We intention to grasp and resolve a urgent problem: why is finance not working for youngsters? On one hand, the funding hole to realize the Sustainable Improvement Targets (SDGs) continues to develop (presently at over 4 trillion USD!), the place youngsters are significantly susceptible to the academic, well being, safety and local weather challenges the SDGs attempt to deal with. Then again, youngsters are seldom thought-about within the funding practices of traders, even essentially the most accountable and socially aware – whereas just about all firms have materials impacts on youngsters lives, as customers, by their employed dad and mom and caregivers, as neighborhood members and as future leaders.

To proceed our increasing work, the Revolutionary Finance Hub is searching for two Revolutionary Finance Interns reporting to the Programme Specialist and the Senior Analyst, Revolutionary Finance, respectively, as part of the core staff driving Revolutionary Financing methods.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

In help of the 2022-25 Strategic Plan, UNICEF has launched its World Revolutionary Finance for Youngsters (IF4C) Technique and is ramping up coordinated endeavors to foster and promote the broader use of IF.

As part of this technique, the Revolutionary Finance Hub works on two Pathways – Rising Fundraising, and Revolutionary Financing, the place this internship will sit.

On the Revolutionary Financing Pathway, we develop options across the integration of kids in traders’ sustainability and human rights practices, throughout asset lessons (together with non-public and public equities). Our work entails the interpretation of kid rights into insurance policies, suggestions and practices for traders and their investees to respect baby rights and concurrently drive funding with a optimistic affect for youngsters. Our core venture on this regard is child-lens investing, an investing method to place youngsters within the investor agenda. You possibly can study extra of child-lens investing right here: https://www.unicef.org/innovation/innovative-finance/child-lens-investing 

The 2 Revolutionary Finance Interns will present a broad help on modern finance tasks. The expectation is to introduce the interns to UNICEF’s work on Revolutionary Financing and contain them in help features with the staff, following a learning-by-doing mannequin.

Primary tasks embody:

After a complete onboarding, candidates might be anticipated to carry out help features together with:

• Analysis and evaluation: together with desktop analysis round sustainable finance frameworks, consolidation of databases for contacts and pipeline companions; in addition to devoted analysis help deep-diving in agreed areas of labor round child-lens investing (private and non-private fairness traders, monetary merchandise, regulatory mapping, and so on.).
• Inside Assist: together with focused help to Mission Managers round a wide range of matters on child-lens investing, sustainable finance (i.e: improvement of Briefing Notes and displays for senior administration and key exterior occasions and stakeholders)
• Communications: Coordinate with IF Hub Communications Specialist to align core messaging and ship well timed social media and exterior outreach when launching new merchandise and stories.
• Staff Total Assist: Staff Total Assist: Given the various vary of tasks throughout the IF Hub, the intern could also be known as upon to help with varied duties associated to modern finance, both straight or not directly, as wanted.

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have… 

• Enrolled at a college at a grasp’s degree, undergraduate degree or a current graduate (inside two years from date of commencement) in Finance, Enterprise Administration, Worldwide Improvement, or a associated subject.
• Earlier work expertise, together with internships, within the finance and/or sustainable finance (ESG, affect investing, and so on.) subject could be thought-about an asset. 
• Demonstrated curiosity working with sustainable finance or associated subject is fascinating, together with stable understanding of economic ideas, together with sustainable finance, affect investing and ESG. 
• Robust capability to work successfully in inter-divisional groups. 
• Wonderful analytical, interpersonal and communications expertise. 
• Potential to conceptualize, plan and execute concepts. 
• Fluency in English is required.

WORK ARRANGEMENT:

The Revolutionary Financing interns will ideally work in-person at our workplace in Helsinki, Finland, for a interval of 6 months/26 weeks.

Circumstances:

• Age: Interns have to be not less than 18 years. 
• Have good tutorial efficiency as demonstrated by current college or establishment data.
• Don’t have any quick family (e.g. father, mom, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF workplace.
• Don’t have any different family within the line of authority which the intern will report back to.
• People should have proof of medical insurance coverage protecting the time and placement of their internship.
• This internship might be delivered on a full-time dedication.
• People are anticipated to supply their very own laptop computer.
• Chosen candidates will obtain a month-to-month stipend (except already in receipt of any help for the internship from a 3rd occasion).
• People should fund their very own journey and dwelling bills.
• People are liable for arranging any visa or immigration necessities.

Employment: There isn’t a expectancy of employment on the finish of the internship.

Please see connected Phrases of Reference (TOR)  Innovative Finance Internship TOR.pdf

For each Youngster, you display… 

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every 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 3) Drive to realize outcomes for 4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and 6) Thinks and acts 7) Works collaboratively with others.

In the course of 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 youngsters, and our world workforce should replicate the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, 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 using versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims 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 youngsters. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and might 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 supply extra data to conduct a background check.

Remarks:  

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which might be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities workers which might be thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the fitting to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or essential inoculation necessities usually are not met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose.

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

Contact: For any queries, please contact: swe-ooi-recruitments@unicef.org