Project Management Intern – UNOPS jobs in Kenya
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
- Vacancy No: N/A
- Salary: N/A
- Organization: UNOPS
- Gender: Both
- Deadline: 2024-04-07
Background Information – Job-specific
Africa Regional Office
The Africa Regional Office supports UNOPS country offices in the continent, ensuring that projects are executed to the highest standards, providing a shared knowledge base, and ensuring that best practices and lessons learned are disseminated between projects across the entire region. The Africa Regional Office is located in Nairobi, Kenya.
Functional Responsibilities
At UNOPS, interns join our teams as equal members and are offered a good mix of support work and independent assignments with larger responsibility. Your focus will be on contributing to the development and strengthening of management and oversight in the Africa Region.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Perform data collection, analysis, and reporting on a variety of internal financial and non-financial key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Assist in the compilation and maintenance of relevant documents, such as monthly reports, regional management meeting reports, gender reports, standard operating procedures (SoPs), and learning materials.
- Assist in budgeting activities.
- Assist in the planning and implementation of knowledge sharing sessions and activities.
- Assist in the monitoring and implementation of action plans pertaining to Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEAH), Gender, Diversity, and Inclusion (GDI), UNOPS People Survey, Internal Control Frameworks (ICF), control self-assessments, Human Resources (HR), and procurement.
- Liaise with internal partners, including Africa field offices, headquarters groups, and other UNOPS regions, as required
- Support in the planning of meetings, and events.
- Perform other related duties as required.
Education/Experience/Language requirements
Education:
- Applicants must be enrolled in a university degree such as a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D., or have graduated within three years prior to the application date of the internship.
Experience:
- Strong skills in Google Workspace (Sheets, Docs, Slides, Gmail, Chat, Meet, Calendar, Drive, Forms) or Microsoft Office equivalent, or other similar software, is desirable.
- Particular skills in Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, or equivalent is desirable.
- Some experience in data analysis, administration, or project management is desirable.
- Strong attention to detail is desirable.
- A strong work ethic is desirable.
- Geographical exposure to Africa is desirable.
Language:
- Excellent written and oral skills in English are required
- Excellent written and oral skills in French are desirable
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