Intern - Full-stack Developer, May-August 2021 (Multiple Roles) , Remote

New York City

Organization: UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund
Location: New York City
Grade: Consultancy - Consultant - Contractors Agreement
Occupational Groups:
- Information Technology and Computer Science
Closing Date: Closed

We are seeking a full-stack developer (intern) to support various tech verticals and priorities of the Innovation Fund within the Office of Innovation. The Intern will collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to develop, prototype and advise on new products and solutions. UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up.

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, innovate

UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children. We believe that new approaches, partnerships and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives.

The Office of Innovation is a creative, interactive, and agile team in UNICEF. We sit at a unique intersection, where an organization that works on huge global issues meets the startup thinking, the technology, and the partners that turn this energy into scalable solutions.

UNICEF's Office of Innovation creates opportunities for the world's children by focusing on where new markets can meet their vital needs. We do this by:

Connecting youth communities (or more broadly -- anyone disconnected or under-served) to decision-makers, and to each other, to deliver informed, relevant and sustained programmes that build better, stronger futures for children.
Provoking change for children through an entrepreneurial approach -- in a traditionally risk-averse field -- to harness rapidly moving innovations and apply them to serve the needs of all children.
Creating new models of partnership that leverage core business values across the public, private and academic sectors in order to deliver fast, and lasting results for children.

The Office of Innovation specifically looks to form partnerships around frontier technologies (like drones and UAVs, blockchain, 21st century skills, urban technologies, new banking tools, wearables and sensors, or 3D-Printing) that exist at the intersection of $100 billion business markets and 1 billion person needs – and to identify how they can grow and scale profitably and inclusively.

To support UNICEF’s blockchain efforts, the UNICEF Venture team is looking for full-stack developers.

How can you make a difference?

Intern – Digital Public Goods Alliance

You will join a thriving and growing open-source community in support of digital public goods. We are building our digital infrastructure in the open on various GitHub repositories, including our website, the registry and the DPG Standard. We need better automated processes to keep them all in sync, standardizing data schemas, automatically generating HTML and Markdown content from JSON, and keeping these concurrent updates in sync through Continuous Integration (CI). Experience with JSON and GitHub Actions is a plus.

Intern – Venture Fund Team (Open Source Focus)

You will join the UNICEF Innovation Fund as its first open-source intern. In this role, you will coach early-stage open-source projects on best practices. You will work with start-ups and UNICEF Country Offices from across 57 countries who are building a community around their code. You should have some experience participating in and working in open-source projects and open communities. Front-end web development experience is required. Experience and/or interest in working with drones, data science and machine learning, and/or AR/VR and extended reality (XR) is a plus.

Intern – Blockchain Team

You’ll be part of a blockchain team that builds prototypes and supports startups and UNICEF country offices in their own exploration of the technology. You will work with a cross-functional team to build applications to help solve large challenges. You should have some experience building full-stack applications and an interest in learning about web3 applications.

Your main responsibilities will be:

Intern – Digital Public Goods Alliance

Standardize a JSON data schema as the source of truth for various interconnected data and code repositories
Automatically generate Markdown documents from the data contained in the schema mentioned above
Automatically generate HTML documents from the data contained in the schema mentioned above.
Automate data propagation across repositories through GitHub Actions CI.

Intern – Venture Fund Team (Open Source Focus)

Contribute to the front-end design and development of a template-driven documentation website for Open Source best practices recommended by UNICEF.
Support multiple Open Source projects managed by different teams. Create and build out design resources to enable needs assessments, mentorship profiles, and/or conduct design interviews if other UNICEF Innovation Fund companies and software projects.

Intern – Blockchain Team

Contribute to the development and deployment of various blockchain related prototypes (note that our team is platform agnostic, and therefore prototypes may be built on various platforms)
Contribute to prototypes developed in conjunction with partners (within the UN and externally)

*Please indicate in your cover letter if you have a preference for the team you would work with. Candidates will be considered for all roles.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Be enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate, or Ph.D. degree programme in computer science, engineering or other relevant fields or have graduated within the past two years.
Applicants must be at least 18 years old.

Be proficient in at least one of UNICEF's working languages: English, French or Spanish. Fluency in the working language of the office you are applying to is required.
Have excellent academic performance as demonstrated by recent university or institution records.
Have no immediate relatives (e.g. father, mother, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF office; and have no other relatives in the line of authority that the intern will report to.
A minimum of 6 months of relevant professional experience or active GitHub history in building or contributing to products, preference given to open-source and distributed ledger technology projects. Kindly include a link to your GitHub profile, if available.
Understanding of some of the following programming languages and frameworks: React JS, Node JS, ES6, TypeScript.

Understanding and experience with system integration: interface design, API development.
Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Conditions

Individuals must have proof of medical insurance covering the time and location of their internship.
This internship expects a full-time commitment.
Individuals are expected to provide their own laptop.
Selected candidates will receive a monthly stipend (unless already in receipt of any support for the internship from a third party).

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

This vacancy is now closed.
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