Intern/Trainee, Green Development and Climate Change Programme, Climate Change Adaptation

UNITAR’s Green Development and Climate Change Programme (GCP) develops the capacities of individuals and training institutions in developing countries to implement the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and to advance green and climate resilient development. It offers a range of services, including executive training, institutional capacity development, support for national learning strategies, learning methodology development, and knowledge-sharing. Activities are carried out through partnerships with other UN organizations, bilateral development partners, as well as leading learning institutions and think tanks. The Programme also hosts the Secretariat for UN CC:Learn, the One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership (www.uncclearn.org).

The internship/traineeship

The Intern/Trainee will support the activities of the UNDP-UNEP National Adaptation Plan Global Support Programme (NAP-GSP) in LDCs and non-LDCs and the UN CC:Learn project, in order to enhance project management and effective development and dissemination of knowledge products. The Intern/Trainee will also take part in a variety of other climate change capacity development projects to get to know the different work areas of UNITAR’s Green Development and Climate Change Programme.

Specific working areas will include:

• Provide day-to-day management support to the NAP-GSP and UN CC: Learn projects;
• Keep the NAP-GSP and UN CC: Learn knowledge-sharing system up-to-date (e.g. draft news article, share E-news, up-load learning resources, etc.);
• Support the design of learning packages (e.g. MOOC on adaptation finance and private sector) to UNITAR quality standards and international certification;
• Provide support in background research and stocktaking studies on existing adaptation policies, programmes and activities;
• Contribute to the organization of meetings and workshops, national to global;
• Support in mission planning and development of analytical tools, questionnaires and other related materials;
• Support other activities of the Climate Change Programme (e.g. CC&E Backstopping Mandate; R3 activities; Youth Climate Dialogues) as required.

Learning Objectives

After completion of the Internship/Traineeship with UNITAR the Intern/Trainee will be able to:

• Describe the capacity development work carried out by the green development and climate change programme and its partners;
• Explain at least three capacity development challenges faced by developing countries in responding to climate change;
• Explain how to design a full-fledged learning package; and
• Describe how to organize a country-support (adaptation or UN CC:Learn) mission.

Skills Required

The Intern/Trainee should have a strong knowledge in a field relevant to environment (environmental sciences, environmental policy) and climate change with solid research and analytical skills. The applicant should have basic work experience of project and knowledge management.

Languages

Fluency in both written and spoken English with excellent writing skills. Proficiency in French will be considered an asset.

Status

Interns/Trainees are considered gratis personnel. They are not financially remunerated by UNITAR. They are not staff members and shall not represent the Institute in any official capacity.

How to apply

Send your CV and motivation letter to gcp@unitar.org indicating “NAP Intern/Traineeship” in the subject line.