Overview
This internship opportunity focuses on supporting project management activities within the Office of Supply Chain Management, contributing to efficient, agile, and responsive supply chain solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Supports project management activities, including planning, scheduling, documenting, and coordinating project tasks ensuring accuracy.
- Assists in tracking project progress and timely completion of deliverables on a daily, weekly, and/or bi-weekly basis.
- Leverages Agile Principles to analyze project tasks, timelines, and deliverables for project continuity.
- Coordinate weekly updates for key projects, integrating team inputs into internal systems for records.
- Develops and deliver presentations to communicate project updates and findings to the management and higher personnels.
- Collaborates with cross-functional divisions to ensure organizational/ departmental objectives are met with timely communication and updates.
- Translates data results into written reports, or presentations to convey information to management.
- Prepares and update drafts of meeting agendas, document notes, and assign tasks as relevant.
- Provides support in organizing meetings and events, including assistance with logistics, drafting background materials, and assisting with follow-ups, including summarizing key points and action items.
- Supports team members with data cleaning from primary or secondary sources and maintaining databases/data systems.
- Creates simple data visualizations for internal or external use independently.
- Has the ability to identify issues and develops solutions, utilizing analytical thinking to analyze data and draw meaningful insights.
- Has basic knowledge of Human Resources processes such as talent acquisition and workforce planning with an understanding of HR policies and compliance requirements.
- Has knowledge of advanced key business tools (e.g. Excel, including PivotTables, VLOOKUP, and XLOOKUP, PowerPoint, Word). Knowledge of analytics tools (e.g. Microsoft SharePoint, PowerBI, Tableau, Visio).
Required Experience
- No work experience is required to apply for the United Nations Internship Programme.
- Experience using Office 365 applications, including Outlook, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint for document management is required.
- Experience in drafting reports, presentations, and presenting findings is desirable.
- Experience in data collection, analysis and visualization is desirable.
- Experience as an advanced Microsoft Excel user is desirable.
- Demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision in a complex environment is an asset
Qualifications
- be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher).
- be enrolled in the final academic year of a university degree programme (minimum bachelor's level or equivalent);or
- have graduated with a university degree (as defined above).
- The preferred candidate would have a degree or pursuing studies preferably in the areas of Project Management, Human Resources, Business Administration, Information Systems Management, or a related field.
