UNDP Digital Transformation Internship: Global Call

The United Nations Development Programme is now open for applications for its Digital Transformation Internship program, which is a global opportunity for university students and recent grads.

The 2025 UNDP Digital Transformation Internship is looking for applications from final-year undergraduates, current master’s students, and recent graduates. This program allows participants to use digital technology in various UNDP development projects.

Successful applicants will receive a monthly stipend between $200 and $500, along with the opportunity to help UNDP in its mission to eliminate poverty, enhance democratic governance, support the rule of law, and promote inclusive institutions around the world.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP : we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations.

People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and inspiring stories.

UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

At UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), we are on a mission to end poverty, build democratic governance, rule of law, and inclusive institutions around the world. UNDP is the United Nations’ global sustainable development organization working across 170 countries with 17,000 staff.

Digital technology is one of the most fundamental drivers of change this century. Digital not only provides new opportunities and challenges for development, but it is also fundamentally changing the context in which development is taking place. Since the launch of its first Digital Strategy in 2019, UNDP has been on an ambitious transformation journey to harness the potential of digital technology for development.

We are now in the next phase of our digital transformation, implementing the UNDP Digital Strategy , which puts forth a vision to create a world in which digital is an empowering force for people and planet.

The Chief Digital Office (CDO) at UNDP is leading this effort with the goal of embedding digital technology in the development projects that we implement, supporting government partners to build inclusive digital eco-systems, and transforming the organization internally to enable these changes.

Please note that the start date is flexible, and needs based. We will be receiving applications on a rolling basis until August 31st, 2025, and successful applicants can hear back any time between March 1st and the end of 2025.

Please read the instructions carefully to complete your application.

We are looking for motivated interns who can support our work, on a part-time or full-time basis, in any of the following areas listed below:

• Support the shaping of local digital ecosystems, to ensure a rights-based and inclusive approach to digital development within and beyond countries
• Support the implementation of inclusive, equitable and secure digital & data public infrastructure through the whole of society transformation approach to tech layers including the systemic role of digital public goods, robust accountabilities in the governance frameworks around digital public goods, and the community engagement to catalyzing innovation and safeguards of the digital public infrastructures
• Support in primary research and/or content review on digital topics such as inclusive connectivity, digital inclusion, ethical technology, AI etc.
• Knowledge management by collecting and disseminating digital-related thought pieces produced across the organization
• Internal coordination on thought…