Human Resources intern - PCG

UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.

UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.

Working with us

UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.

Diversity

With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.

Work life harmonization

UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.

The People and Change Group (PCG) helps UNOPS empower people, managing talent, driving organizational excellence, and managing change across the organization in order to help the organization deliver on its strategic intent.

We are bringing together experienced professionals with strategic HR management, organizational design, and change management expertise – all of us have a passion for achieving results and building innovation into our way of doing business.  

We are currently looking for one intern to join our dynamic and diverse team. The role will provide internal support to a variety of global projects currently being undertaken by PCG and will be reporting to the functional Specialists. 

The role will offer insight into working in a United Nations organization and experience in a dynamic, international environment.

The intern will be supporting some of the different functions in PCG as per the below high-level overview, depending on need, qualifications, and interest:

• People Stream:

  • Talent Management

    • Support various Talent Management Initiatives: e.g. Junior Talent Programme, Support with Reassignment/Rehire of Project Managers project through administrative and communication support, talent benches and rosters, etc..

  • Learning and Development:

    • Processing documents  for the corporate learning budget 

    • Support with the translation implementation of courses in the Learning Management System (Learning Zone)

    • Support webinars for leadership programs

  • Policy:

    • Support work on a gap analysis of Benefits and Entitlements policies 

    • Support administration of policies (AIs - Administrative Instructions)  to be inserted in UNOPS knowledge management system (PQMS)

  • Talent Outreach:

    • Support relevant outreach activities, such as posting vacancies announcements on job boards, inserting vacancies announcements in the weekly newsletter,

    • Support the coordination of the talent outreach network.

We expect you to be available now, engaged, enthusiastic, and committed, and to bring some new perspectives to our work.

Education: 

• Applicants must be enrolled in a university program (BA, MA, PhD) or have graduated within the last 3 years

• Preferred area of study is one of the following: Business Administration, Human Resources, Social Sciences, Engineering, Physical/Natural Sciences, Data Science, Information and Communication Technology. 

Experience: 

• While no professional experience is required for an internship, experience in the field of  Change Management, Human Resources, Policy, Learning & Development, Talent Outreach, Business Process Management, Business Analytics, or similar fields is considered an asset;

• Strong computer literacy: G Suite standard programs essential, in particular, proficiency with Google Sheets and Google Slides are required. 

• Experience in advocacy or communications is considered an asset.

Language requirements: 

• Fluency in both written and oral English is required; 

• Knowledge of a second UN language (in particular French and/or Spanish) is an asset.

Contract type: Internship

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• For retainer contracts, you must complete a few Mandatory Courses (around 4 hours) in your own time, before providing services to UNOPS.
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.