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Internship: Research Assistant to UNDP Blue Resilience Project
Mwenda PhineasNairobi Kenya
Job Description
Job Summary Required Skills and Experience Languages: Fluency in spoken and written English is imperative. Knowledge of other UN languages such as French or Spanish an advantage’ Eligibility: Applicants to the UNDP internship programme must at the time of application meet one of the
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Responsibilities Scope of Work Broadly, the research/project assistant would to provide support in four main areas of work: Provide research assistance to the governance and gender experts respectively with regards to their research
- Provide administrative support in organizing and facilitating expert consultations with regards to the research component of the project
- Assist with drafting and copy-editing towards producing the draft and final research report on inter-agency cooperation
- Assist with drafting learning package
- Specific duties and responsibilities: Support governance and gender experts respectively in their research on institutional cooperation by amongst others, assisting with: Literature review, Sourcing of information Identifying case studies Compiling and summarizing research material Setting up and facilitating expert consultations Transcribing expert consultations and identifying key themes/issues Assist governance and gender expert, in coordination with the project manager in: Producing a draft outcome report based on the research findings
- Facilitating follow-up expert consultations on the draft outcome report
Education + Experience
- following requirements: Be enrolled in a postgraduate degree programme (such as a master’s programme, or higher); Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (such as bachelor’s degree or equivalent); Have recently graduated with a university degree (as defined in (a) and (b) above) and, if selected, must start the internship within one-year of graduation; Be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program and undertake the internship as part of this program