Project Management Intern

Africa Region

Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Africa Regional Office supports UNOPS country offices in the region, ensuring that projects are executed to the highest standards, providing a shared knowledge base, and ensuring that best practices and lessons learned are disseminated between projects across the entire region.

At UNOPS, interns join our teams as equal members and are offered a good mix of support work and independent assignments with larger responsibility. Your focus will be on contributing to the development and strengthening of management and oversight in the Africa Region.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Conduct data collection, research, and in-depth analysis, on specific topics of interest for the Africa Region, such as work plans, project statuses, budgets, and gender.

• Compile, organize, and maintain relevant documents, such as monthly reports, standard operating procedures, and learning materials

• Assist in the implementation of procurement and human resources (HR) plans

• Assist in the review of procurement, HR, and asset disposal cases
  
• Contribute to the dissemination and sharing of best practices and lessons learned for knowledge building

• Implement training/knowledge sharing sessions, and set training agendas to build the capacity of AFR support services communities

• Ensure data and visualization quality in internal and external communications

• Support the management of Africa Region relationships with internal partners including Africa field offices, headquarters groups, and other UNOPS regions

• Support the Executive Associate in planning and organizing meetings and events

• Contribute to the organization of field missions for the Africa Regional Office Management team

• Perform other related duties as required.

Education:

• Applicants must be enrolled in a university degree such as a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D., or have graduated within three years prior to the application date of the internship.

Experience:

• Strong skills in Google Suite/Workspace (Sheets, Docs, Slides) or Microsoft Office equivalent, or other similar software, is desirable
• It is an asset to have some experience in data analysis, administration, or project management
• Geographical exposure to Africa is desirable

Language:

• Excellent written and oral skills in English are required
• Excellent written and oral skills in French are highly desirable

Contract type: Internship
Contract duration: 6 months, with a possibility of extension, subject to satisfactory performance and available funds

This internship is not designed to lead to a staff position with UNOPS. Therefore, there should be no expectation of employment at the end of the internship.
Interns may be eligible for a monthly stipend (currently USD 1300 in Copenhagen) from UNOPS provided that they do not receive funds from other institutions. Further, UNOPS may provide a one time travel lumpsum of 300, 500 or 800 USD (depending on the location at the moment of being selected for the position). However, they must make their own arrangements for accommodation, travel and necessary visa arrangements.

• 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.

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.