Policy and Research Team Intern

• Country: Beijing, China
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: UNDP
• Gender: Both 
• Deadline: 2024-01-04

Duties and Responsibilities

Summary of Key Functions:

• Support the Policy and Research team to compile, collate and analyze data, in particular on socio-economic policies, rural development, climate and environment issues, SDG finance and development cooperation related topics.
• Support as well as compilation, analysis and interpretation of knowledge products, providing thorough research of the policy and development issues in the country.
• Assist preparing policy briefs.
• Assist the coordination of publication launch events, missions and policy dialogues.
• Advocate and support the localization of the SDGs through research, preparing presentations and by participating in relevant forums, conferences and trainings, and take notes.
• A.O.B as assigned.

Support Management of events and publications on economic issues.

The internship is full-time, he/she will work five days per week (35 hours), with at least four days at UNDP offices.

Competencies

Corporate Competencies:

• Interest in development;
• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.

Functional Competencies:

• Ability to manage diverse and complex tasks, with tight deadlines;
• Value the equal importance of research and administrative tasks;
• Ability to manage coordination and logistic tasks with minimum supervision.
• Familiarity with knowledge management and learning;
• Ability to provide high quality policy notes, briefs on thematic topics;
• Sound writing and data management skills;
• Excellent organizational, inter-personal, communication and administrative skills;
• Works collaboratively with colleagues to achieve organizational goals;

Required Skills and Experience

Education and Experience

Field of study: International development, Economics, Social Sciences, International relations, Climate science, Environmental studies, Business and Management, or equivalent.

Candidates must meet one of the following educational requirements:

• Enrolled in a Master’s or in a PhD programme
• In the final year of a Bachelor’s programme;
• Or within one year after graduation from a Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD programme,
• Or be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program and undertake the internship as part of this program
• Experience in developing research communication products would be an advantage.

Language and Skills

Excellent written and spoken Chinese and English language.

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