Overview
The internship programme provides motivated students with first-hand experience in the day-to-day working environment of an international organisation, contributing to the OPCW mission to achieve a world permanently free of chemical weapons.
Key Responsibilities
- Assisting in the security risk management processes of the OPCW, carrying out supporting administrative and research tasks.
- Specific focus on travel security risks and supporting procedures.
- Supporting research into security topics of interest and preparation of briefing and presentation materials.
- Learning about the United Nations Security Management System approaches to managing threat and risk information.
- Working within a professional environment to monitor and report on the security environment in areas of interest.
- Providing administrative and research support for security risk management procedures.
- Providing administrative and research support for travel security risk management procedures.
- Carrying out checks in established systems in relation to areas of interest and conduct further open-source research on topics of interest.
- Supporting data capture processes for security threat information for areas and topics of interest.
- Assisting in collection, collation and dissemination of security threat information.
- Supporting the preparation of security briefing and presentation materials in relation to topics of interest both for travel and for general security awareness.
- Conducting and coordinating research on specific threats under the direction of the Supervisor and supporting analysis of identified factors of insecurity.
Qualifications
- • Enrolled in and have completed at least one year of a degree programme in a university (or equivalent tertiary institution) or;
- in a graduate school programme (second university degree or higher) or;
- have graduated from a university or a graduate school within a year prior to the commencement of the internship.
