Internship - Economic Affairs, I

Depending on their level of experience and training, interns in the Global Compact Office
will:
• Research and analyze relating to the topic of corporate citizenship, especially on human
rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption;
• Draft and edit publications, papers and other documents;
• Liaise with Global Compact stakeholders on key corporate citizenship topics;
• Support the organization of meetings and events;
• Assist with outreach activities;
• Assist in the coordination of the Communication on Progress process;
• Handle e-mail and other inquiries;
• Assist in the implementation of the Global Compact's integrity measures;
• Perform administrative tasks as assigned.

Additionally, responsibilities and scope of work may vary depending upon the issue team you choose to work with. Issue teams within the Global Compact are as follows:

Anti-corruption: Encouraging business to work against corruption in all its forms; prompting companies to focus on anti-corruption measures.

Human Rights: Develop tools and offer guidance to encourage and assist companies to implement a human rights framework into their business practices. Engage in outreach to persuade companies to do as such.

Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Raise awareness of business on ways to engage respectfully and positively with indigenous peoples. Persons with disabilities: Raise awareness of business on ways to engage respectfully and positively with persons with disabilities.

Labour: Encourage companies to implement the Global Compact's labour
principles. These include recognition of the right to collective bargaining; eliminating force
labour and child labour.

Women's Empowerment & Gender Equality: Help mainstream gender equality and women's empowerment into corporate sustainability policies, practices and initiatives by promoting implementation of the Women's Empowerment Principles, a joint initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact.

Environment: Support businesses to undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility in their business and manufacturing processes via various platforms and programmes (for additional information visit unglobalcompact. org/Issues/Environment/index. html)

Business and Peace: Provides a dynamic forum to help companies operating in "conflict-prone, " "weak" or "post-conflict" explore solutions to the dilemmas unique to their situation.

PRME: Encourage business schools and academia to integrate corporate responsibility and sustainability into their curricula and learning material. LEAD: Challenges and supports approximately 50 global corporations to reach higher levels of performance through collaboration on advanced approaches to corporate sustainability.

COP Team: Follows up with Global Compact participants to obtain the Communication on Progress submissions and ensure compliance to GCO principles.

Communications & Media: Position the UN Global Compact as the global thought leader on corporate sustainability to participants, stakeholders and the media through our diverse issue portfolio, publications, events, websites and a variety of other communications channels.

Local Networks: Local Networks are groups of participants that come together to advance the Global Compact and its principles within a particular country or geographic region. Their role is to facilitate the progress of participants in the implementation
and advancement of the ten principles, while also creating opportunities for multi-stakeholder engagement and collective action.

Competencies

• Communication: Ability to draft clearly and concisely, good written and oral language skills.
• Teamwork: Good interpersonal skills, ability to work collaboratively with colleagues from different national and cultural backgrounds to achieve organizational goals.
• Client Orientation: Considers all those to whom services are provided to be ‘clients’ and seeks to see things from clients’s point of view.

Education

To qualify for an internship with the United Nations Internship Programme, the following conditions must be met:
• Applicants must meet one of the following requirements: (a) be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher); (b) be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor’s level or equivalent); or (c) have graduated with a university degree (as defined above) and, if selected, must commence the internship within a one year period of graduation;
• Be computer literate in standard software applications;
• Have a demonstrated keen interest in the work of the United Nations and have a personal commitment to the ideals of the Charter; and
• Have a demonstrated ability to successfully interact with individuals of different cultural backgrounds and beliefs, which include willingness to try and understand and be tolerant of differing opinions and views.

Work Experience

Applicants are not required to have professional work experience for participation in the programme.

Languages

Fluency in English (both oral and written) is required; knowledge of French is desirable;
knowledge of another UN official language is an advantage.

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