Cities
Alliance seeks a qualified, well-motivated intern for a period of six mon...
Cities
Alliance seeks a qualified, well-motivated intern for a period of six months.
The internship will be located at the Offices of the Cities Alliance Secretariat
in Brussels, Belgium. The selected candidate will work within the Programme
Unit, supporting the Gender
Equality Joint Work Programme (JWP), under the supervision of an
Urban Specialist.
Gender Equality is a core value and
corporate strategy for Cities Alliance. Cities Alliance has committed to Gender
Equality in its Charter, its current Medium Term Strategy and Gender Equality
Strategy. Cities Alliance activities with regard to gender equality are driven
by its Gender Joint Work Programme and its Gender Equality Team.
The Gender Joint Work Programme
will serve as a highly visible platform for the promotion of women in cities.
It brings together partners form International Organisation, national governments
and Non-governmental organisation committed to making cities increasingly
inclusive and characterized by effective and transparent local government,
engaged citizens from all social groups and improved and responsive
service-delivery to urban men, women, girls and boys of all backgrounds. The
Joint Work Programme also committed to achieve the institutionalization of
Gender Mainstreaming within the Cities Alliance Secretariat’s units, structures
and processes. To achieve these aims a Gender Action Plan has been adopted in
September 2016.
The role of the Gender Equality
Team is to provide (i) guidance; (ii) institutional monitoring and (iii)
quality assurance of the work of the Secretariat. The team holds regular
meetings, monitors the activities specified in the Gender Action Plan and
organises capacity building measures with regard to Gender Mainstreaming. The
intern will contribute to these endeavours directly, through providing
analytical as well as organisational support.
This internship with the Cities
Alliance secretariat offers the opportunity to acquire direct exposure to
Cities Alliance’s analytic work on Economic Growth in cities as well as to work
with its members and partners at the global level.