Intern - Economic Affairs [temporary]

2 weeks ago

กรงเทพมหานคร, Thailand United Nations Full time

For this position, a particular area of focus is trade and health, including issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, preparedness for future crises, and access to essential medical supplies. Other areas of focus include trade facilitation, and broad areas related to trade and trade policy. We aim to provide evidence, training, and policy guidance to governments and relevant stakeholders in the Asia-Pacific region. Types of services include: conducting research and analysis; providing training and capacity building for policymakers and researchers; delivering advisory services to member governments; organizing regional dialogues, meetings and forums. Much of our work is focused on the development needs of the region’s least developed countries and other countries with special needs.

**Responsibilities**:
Daily responsibilities will depend on the intern’s background, the work of the intern’s supervisor, and the internship period. Duties may include some of the following items but are not limited to:

- Contribute to the policy research activities on contemporary issues related to trade, digital trade, e-commerce, global value chains, multilateral and regional trade agreements, globalization, and trade-related regulations with a focus on implications on sustainable and inclusive development, including health.
- Undertake literature analysis, draft background and discussion documents and policy notes,
- Support the preparation of presentations, training-course materials
- Support the data work, including the identification of data sources, the collection and analysis of data, the update and maintenance of databases
- Edit and format papers
- Support the organizing of online or onsite events such as seminars, training, online courses, and meetings, including related substantive, administrative, logistics, communication, and dissemination tasks, including preparing letters, event documents, social media and website

Competencies

The United Nations Core Competencies include:

- 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’ point of view.
- Planning & Organizing: Develops clear goals that are consistent with agreed strategies and identifies priority activities and assignments; adjusts priorities as required.

Education
(a) Be enrolled in, or have completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher); or,
(b) Be enrolled in, or have completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor’s level or equivalent).

Work Experience

Languages
Fluency in spoken and written English is required for the internship. Knowledge of an additional official UN language is an asset.
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish are the official languages of the United Nations Secretariat.

Assessment
N/A

Special Notice
- Commit to spending six months in the internship programme (onsite or remote)
- Having a degree or studying PhD or postgraduate level in Economics or Laws
- Experience (through study, work, etc.) in international trade or development policies or Laws (trade-related or international laws)
- Experience in data management, data analysis and programming (e.g.excel, R, Python, web scraping, SQL)
- Experience in regulatory analysis or trade agreement analysis
- Having excellent drafting skills in English (academic style)
- Strong media and communication skills (e.g. Infographic, video, presentations, social media, copywriting, editing, formatting)

REMOTE INTERNSHIPS (COVID-19): “In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, applicants may be requested to undertake the internship remotely in view of constraints regarding visa issuance, international travel and access to UN premises. Applicants must be willing and prepared to undertake the internship remotely for a part or the entirety of the internship.”

Interns are not financially remunerated by the United Nations. Costs and arrangements for travel, visas, accommodation and living expenses are the responsibility of interns or their sponsoring institutions.

The Cover Note must include the following:

- Title of degree you are currently pursuing
- Graduation Date
- Period of availability for taking an internship. (The availability for a 6-month internship could be an advantage)
- List of IT skills and programmes that you are proficient in

Should there be a need for an intern that matches the Applicant’s profile, the Applicant will be contacted directly by the Division. Please note that due to the many applicants, the Division is not necessarily able to reply to each request, and only short-listed applicants will be contacted for furth

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