Vacancy Announcement Details

INTERN - United Nations Sustainable Development Group System-Wide Evaluation Office

07 Oct 2024

SWEO

The Secretary-General established the United Nations Sustainable Development Group System-Wide Evaluation Office to strengthen the oversight, transparency, accountability, and collective learning across the United Nations Sustainable Development Group. The System-Wide Evaluation Office commissions a small number of independent system-wide evaluations on strategic development issues to provide a credible evaluation input to system-wide policy and agenda-setting, as well as operational implementation and decision-making. Ongoing evaluations include Evaluation of the Spotlight Initiative; System-wide evaluation of country programme derivation from Cooperation Frameworks and UNCT configuration; Evaluation of the United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy.

The Office also has a key role in mapping the availability of evaluation evidence to enhance collective knowledge sharing and promote learning through the production of syntheses and summaries of evaluation evidence. Further priorities include consolidation of the foundations of the office, including guidance, governance mechanisms, systems development and communications.

Internship Duties

The System-Wide Evaluation Office is seeking graduate students who wish to gain professional experience in an international organization to supplement their studies. The internship provides practical educational experience working in an independent evaluation office in a multicultural and intergovernmental organization. Under the supervision of experienced managers, interns are assigned projects and tasks that are relevant to their educational background and interests and provided with the opportunity to apply and further develop their theoretical knowledge and gain exposure to the work of the United Nations Secretariat. Interns report to full-time professional staff in the System-Wide Evaluation Office.

Interns will be responsible for one or more of the following duties: • Contribute to preparation of documents and guidance materials through conduct of desk research and preparation of reports and papers. • Assist evaluation teams in collecting, organizing and analysing qualitative and quantitative data. • Contribute to preparation of evaluation knowledge management products, evaluation communication and services (database, newsletter, web-enabled knowledge platforms, etc.); • Preparation of presentations and other communication material, including drafting, formatting, editing, data visualization, graphics, photos, and videos. • Assist in coordinating the formulation of workplans and strategies. • Support outreach and engagement through the preparation of meetings, events, talking points, background notes. • Drafting minutes of meetings and ensuring timely follow-up. • Assist with the development of office systems, as required.

Full details available on the UN website. Application deadline 2 November.