PDU Intern

JOB DESCRIPTION

Hardship Level (not applicable for home-based)

A (least hardship)

Family Type (not applicable for home-based)

Family

Staff Member / Affiliate Type

Internship

Target Start Date

Job Posting End Date

February 1, 2024

Terms of Reference

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights, and building a better future for people forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution. UNHCR leads international action to protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people. UNHCR works in collaboration with governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and other international partners to provide humanitarian assistance, advocate for refugees’ rights, and find durable solutions for displaced populations.

UNHCR’s core functions include ensuring the safety and well-being of refugees, advocating for their rights, ensuring access to rights and services and facilitating durable solutions.

The intern will be placed within the Policy Development Unit under the guidance of the Assistant Protection Officer. The team focuses on capacity development and monitoring activities related to PMM/PDMMs, analyzing and monitoring various registration practices, and contributing to overall protection and assistance efforts of UNHCR.

Internship at UNHCR offers a unique opportunity to actively contribute to global humanitarian efforts and gain valuable hands‑on experience in protection. The intern, under the assistance of the Assistant Protection Officer, will engage in tasks such as organizing and monitoring capacity development activities, analyzing online evaluations, producing visualizations of registration practices, translating documents, and supporting the Registration Team on clerical tasks.

Intern will assist the Policy Development Unit Registration team in media monitoring, preparing and following up on trainings, coordinating with other Units, checking monthly statistics, translating documents into English and/or Turkish, following up on Counselling Line Tickets, preparing maps and graphs, and performing other duties as required.

• Assist the Unit in the organization and follow up on the logistics of capacity development and monitoring activities carried out for/by PMM/PDMM staff and third-party personnel, and assist with the analysis of online pre‑test post‑tests and evaluation forms.
• Assist the Unit in following up the regular charts/reports regarding activity monitoring.
• Support the Unit in production of graphs, tables, charts and maps on different registration practices analyzed by the Unit.
• Cross‑check the accuracy of the dashboards produced by the functional unit against the calculations made by the Associate Protection Officer.
• Participate in meetings, workshops, trainings, take notes and draft minutes/reports.
• Assist in the translation (English‑Turkish) of documents and support in proofreading translated reports and documents.
• Perform other duties as required.

• Be either a recent graduate (having completed studies within two years of applying) or a current student in a graduate/undergraduate program from a university or higher education facility accredited by IAU/UNESCO; and
• Have completed at least two years of undergraduate studies in a field relevant or of interest to the work of UNHCR.

NOTE:

An individual whose father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister is a staff member of UNHCR, including a Temporary Appointment holder or a member of the Affiliate Workforce, is not eligible for an internship.

• Graduate or under‑graduate student in social sciences, political sciences, law, interpretation, or any other related fields.
• Comparative analysis and basic numeracy skills on graphs and charts, and percentage change.
• Advanced user of MS Office (MS Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.).
• Proficiency in spoken and written English and Turkish.
• Previous work experience relevant to the role.
• Pro‑activeness, flexibility and adaptability.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under…