Internship for Partnership and Advocacy, PPD Tokyo, Japan

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. 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, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means surrender. 

For each youngster, hope

The UNICEF Internship Programme presents certified and eligible college students at each Headquarters (HQ) and Nation Workplaces (CO) the distinctive alternative to accumulate direct sensible expertise in UNICEF’s work and the United Nations system underneath the direct supervision of skilled UNICEF employees.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

Objective of the task

The Division of Public Partnerships (PPD) works to strengthen UNICEF’s place as a companion of selection for youngsters’s rights amongst governments and public actors world wide. The intern will purchase direct sensible expertise in PPD Tokyo’s work and the United Nations system by supporting the workplace’s advocacy, communication, and visibility actions, underneath the final steerage of the supervisor (Public Partnership Specialist).

Particular duties:

Beneath the supervision of the Public Partnership Specialist, PPD Tokyo, the intern will

• Help the Staff’s efforts to reinforce donor visibility and UNICEF’s advocacy messages by gathering and organising info for key counterparts and media
• Replace and enhance the Tokyo workplace’s web site and social media accounts as crucial
• Help the workforce in translating UNICEF messages, press releases, and different publications
• Present logistical help for occasions, consultations, and workshops that the workplace will set up
• Every other duties assigned by the supervisor 

Length of task: Between July 2025 and March 2026 (greater than 3 months, as much as 6 months)

The responsibility station is Tokyo, Japan.

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

• At the moment enrolled in a college or a graduate college or those that graduated from faculties inside two years. Skilled experiences are fascinating.
• Accessible for work at the very least 4 days per week for 3-6 months.
• All in favour of UNICEF’s areas of operation equivalent to youngster rights, youngster safety, training, well being, diet, water and sanitation, gender, and so forth.
• Expertise and/or data of worldwide cooperation in addition to humanitarian and improvement help.
• Expertise of translating communication supplies is very fascinating.   
• Expertise in public relations and/or occasion administration is an asset.
• Expertise of managing an internet site and social media is an asset.
• A excessive degree of proficiency in each written and oral languages of English and Japanese is required.
• Skill to work with MS Phrase, Excel, and PowerPoint.

For each Baby, you show… 

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

UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness(3)Drive to realize outcomes for impression(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 check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our international 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 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 youngsters. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer further info to conduct a background check.

Remarks:  

Fee of stipend: PPD Tokyo will present a lump sum of JPY 5,500/ day, inclusive of transport prices.   

Work modality: Work modality is negotiable.  Relying on the workforce’s schedule which follows PPD Tokyo’s hybrid work modality (mixture of working within the workplace and teleworking), interns could also be requested to work from home on a sure variety of days in every week. 

The chosen candidate is solely answerable for making certain that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your entire interval of the contract. Appointments can also be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). 

How one can apply:

Candidates are requested to apply by means of this on-line system by 5 Could 2025.  Whenever you apply, please connect your CV (each in English and Japanese) and a canopy letter in English to state the majors/areas of your research and the rationale on your application.  Kindly word that purposes with out an connected Japanese resume won’t be thought of.

Please specify when and the way usually you can be found for work in the course of the proposed interval (July 2025 – March 2026) in your cowl letter.

Solely certified candidates might be short-listed and notified for additional screening and interview.  Thanks on your understanding.