Overview
Two advocacy interns are sought to support UNICEF’s Child Survival Advocacy Team for six months, focusing on securing new policies, resources, and commitments to accelerate action on child survival. The role involves learning about global advocacy and communications strategies while contributing to key tasks and projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Supporting the coordination of meetings, webinars, and workshops, and producing relevant resources for these
- Desk research and analysis to produce short briefings on key child survival topics
- Developing background materials and undertaking scoping for new projects and activities, including UNICEF’s new champion and influencer engagement workstream
- Writing key messages, drafting briefings, and developing communications related to events, meetings, and key moments
- Support monitoring and case study development to showcase results from advocacy activities at country, regional and global levels
- Attending and supporting meetings, partner workshops, and other internal events
- Improving and supporting internal coordination systems for knowledge sharing across UNICEF offices and National Committees
- Prepare pitch decks or presentations for advocacy and communications activities
Required Experience
- Have a relevant background in nutrition, food systems, community health, global health, international development, or public policy.
- Experience in a prior NGO/non-profit role, especially in advocacy and communications, is an asset.
- Excellent writing and research skills, including experience in writing short reports and briefing notes.
- Experience developing or maintaining knowledge management tools and systems is desirable.
- Good working knowledge and experience across Microsoft SharePoint, Word, PowerPoint, Excel is required.
- Have excellent academic performance as demonstrated by recent university or institution records.
- Have no immediate relatives (e.g. father, mother, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF office; and have no other relatives in the line of authority that the intern will report to.
Qualifications
• Be enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate, or Ph.D. degree programme in Public Health, Global Health International Relations, Public Policy, International Development, Human Rights, Communications, Journalism or have graduated within the past two years.
