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GIZ-CCCPIR Climate Finance Officer Employment Opportunity
The GIZ –Regional Programme on Coping with Climate Change in the Pacific Island Region (CCCPIR) is looking for a highly motivated candidate for the position of Climate Finance Officer to be located at the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (PIFS) Office in Suva.
The Climate Finance Officer will provide support to the GIZ Climate Finance Specialist and Public Finance Management (PFM) in strengthening the capacity of Pacific Island Countries to access climate finance.
Responsibilities
The Climate Finance Officer will:
- Provide support to the management, monitoring and evaluation of CCCPIR’s component on Climate Finance and PFM
- Provide support in conducting background research and provide support to climate finance and related assessments
- Provide targeted technical assistance and training to address key capacity gaps and needs as required
- Provide support in the development of socially-inclusive project proposals as required particularly;
- Conduct research to support the development of research, policy briefs and analysis (including gender analysis) relating to climate finance for decision makers as required
- Support peer-to-peer exchange between countries and document lessons from these exchanges;
- Support the organisation of key stakeholder events and workshops targeting senior government officials from the Ministries of Finance, Planning and ministries responsible for climate change
- Support partner coordination as required, in particular with PFTAC, SPC and SPREP
- Perform other duties as required
Interested? Click HERE to Apply
United Nations Communications and Results Reporting Internship Programme 2020
Applications are open for the United Nations Communications and Results Reporting Internship Programme 2020.
The position is located in the Communications and Results Reporting Section (CRRS) of the United Nations Development Coordination Office (DCO) Headquarters in New York.
The internship is for six (6) months at maximum and UNPAID and full-time. Interns work five days per week (35-40 hours) under the direct supervision of a staff member in CRRS.
Responsibilities
- Identifying, researching, drafting and editing content (text, photos, documents and multimedia) for online publication (website and social media)
- Maintaining content on websites, official social media accounts and other official digital communication outlets presences according to established policies
- Entering and reviewing information utilised on data-sharing and knowledge management platforms utilised across the Resident Coordinator System
- Creating and editing infographics or social videos for posting on official digital communication outlets
- Contribute to strategies for more effective audience engagement across digital channels
- Assisting in posting content on knowledge management platforms and community of practice utilised by the Section
Eligibility
- Applicant must be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher)
- Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor’s level or equivalent)
- Have graduated with a university degree and, if selected, must commence the internship within a one year period of graduation
- Be computer literate in standard software applications
Interested? Click HERE to Apply
Bright Network Internship Experience UK 2020 for Students and Graduates
Applications are open for the Bright Network Internship Experience UK 2020. In response to the challenges brought about by COVID-19, Bright Network is bringing together world leading employers and top educators for a series of three-day virtual experiences.
Open to students and recent graduates, it’s your opportunity to discover career paths, meet employers and boost your employability. Be proactive this summer and start your application to one of the streams today. The experiences are virtual, so can be completed online from anywhere. The first experience starts on June 29 and each three-day programme runs over the following three week period.
Benefits
- On each experience, participants will benefit from
- An introduction to the sector
- Sector-focused skills workshops delivered by leading employers
- Set project work to simulate what you’d do on an internship
- Support, insight and guidance from the firms and recent graduates during the internship
- Networking opportunities with your cohort of internship experience participants
- Feedback on your performance and top tips for improvement
- A certificate on completion which you can add to your CV and LinkedIn
Eligibility
- Open to every student and recent graduate
- Applicants should be up to 18 years old and over
- No matter where you go to school or university, you can apply for the programmes. All you require is Bright Network membership which is completely free and you can complete when you start your application.
Interested? Click HERE to Apply
Remote Summer Internship 2020 at International Human Rights Nonprofit
The Human Projects is currently seeking several remote interns for Summer 2020.
Interns can apply to work on several projects including developing human rights educational programs, assisting with the translation of human rights educational materials, and assisting with researching and interviewing changemakers for the Young Changemakers Archive.
The Human Projects is a global nonprofit empowering young leaders to solve human rights issues in their own communities and providing innovative human rights educational programs to schools and nonprofits around the world.
Over the past three years, the Human Projects has provided over 18,700 programs to participants in 118 countries.
Eligibility
- Must be a current student (high school, undergraduate, graduate, or gap year all eligible) or recent graduate with demonstrated interest in human rights
- Able to commit 15 – 25 hours per week to Human Projects work
- Available from June 2020 to August 2020 – flexible start and end dates
- Strong communication, organization and strategic thinking skills
- Hardworking, detail-oriented, efficient and creative
- Reliable internet access
Requirements
- All positions at the Human Projects including internships are volunteer.
- Depending on your school’s requirements you may be eligible for class credit, federal work study, or community service hours. It is your responsibility to determine if the internship will meet your school’s requirements.
Interested? Click HERE to Apply
SDGs Network Champions Program Opportunity 2020
Are you passionate about the Sustainable Development Goals or you run an organization that is working towards implementing SDGs related projects and activities?
Apply for the Nigeria Youth SDGs Network (NGYouthSDGs) Champions Program 2020.
The Nigeria Youth SDGs Network (NGYouthSDGs) is on a drive to expand and engage more young people in achieving the 2030 Agenda with a focus on human capacity development and access to decent work.
The Nigeria Youth SDGs Network are always looking for partners to work with in driving accountability and implementing projects for the SDG in line with their vision to create a platform for youth-led/focus civil society organizations to understand their roles, responsibilities, and engagements in advocating and driving accountability for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria.
Eligibility
- Open to youth champions in Nigeria
- Applicants should be between 18 and 30 years
- Be excited about creating access to decent work and the sustainable development of their communities
Interested? Click HERE to Apply
IPPF Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Opportunity (EU Gender and Humanitarian Project)
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is hiring a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer. IPPF is a leading sexual and reproductive health (SRH) service delivery organization, and the leading sexual and reproductive health and rights advocacy voice.
The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (M & E Officer) undertakes to set up all monitoring and evaluation systems of the EU Gender project.
The position supports monitoring and evaluation of the effects and impact of the project; assisting in coordinating across the available components of the Project to ensure effective implementation of M&E/MIS; assisting the project personnel with M&E tools and in supporting them in their use.
Responsibilities
- Support all M&E initiatives including monitoring data quality, tracking the progress of activities, and contributing to staff capacity building initiatives as necessary
- Provides monitoring and evaluation (M&E) services and documentation of EU Gender project results
- Support EU Gender project coordinator and management in reviewing donor reports to ensure high quality reports are submitted on time
- Assists management in establishing log frames, M&E work plans, and targets throughout project implementation
- Review and analyze weekly reports to identify the causes of potential bottlenecks in project implementation and to enhance quality of reporting
- Develop and strengthen planning, monitoring and evaluation procedures
- Monitor all EU Gender project activities, expenditures and progress towards achieving the projected outputs
- Develop output, outcome and impact indicators for the project success
- Monitor the sustainability of the project’s results
Interested? Click HERE to Apply
ICRC Traineeship in the International Review of the Red Cross’ Unit 2020 (Paid position)
Applications are open for the ICRC Traineeship in the International Review of the Red Cross’ Unit 2020. Produced by the ICRC and published by Cambridge University Press, the International Review of the Red Cross is a specialized peer-reviewed journal dedicated to international humanitarian law, policy and action.
It is published three times per year and its principal audience includes governments, international governmental and non-governmental organisations, universities, the media and all those interested in humanitarian issues at large.
Responsibilities
- Assistance to the Editor-in-Chief and the Managing Editor of the International Review of the Red Cross
- Evaluation and editing of article submissions (checking the reasoning, arguments, structure and sources), including of submission dealing with topics of a legal nature
- Substantial academic research as part of the editing process
- Identification of potential authors and peer reviewers
- Responding to queries or dispatching them to the appropriate colleague
- Engagement with authors, peer reviewers and publishers, in a diplomatic and politically astute manner, as an ambassador for the journal and the ICRC
Interested? Click HERE to Apply
Pulitzer Center Outreach Assistant Opportunity
Applications are open for the Outreach Assistant position at the Pulitzer Center. The Pulitzer Center is looking for a creative, detail-oriented, and high-energy Outreach Assistant to help them organize online and in-person events for the public and their campus partners.
The Pulitzer Center is looking for someone who shares their passion for raising awareness of critical global issues.
They are a team of more than 20 deeply committed, hardworking, and entrepreneurial individuals. They work with some of the world’s most talented journalists, photographers, and filmmakers.
The events they organize bring them into conversation with students, educators, and the public on the broader societal issues explored in the reporting.
Responsibilities
- Organize online and in-person events for the public to highlight the work of Pulitzer Center journalists and partners
- Build out community-facing programs in regions across the U.S. where the Pulitzer Center is developing new partnerships
- Assist in organization of online and in-person visits by journalists and staff with their more than 35 campus partners
- Write and post blogs related to events and Campus Consortium partnerships
- Work to increase diversity within our campus network by strengthening our partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and community colleges, and by expanding to campuses within regions and within communities not well represented
- Assist in the creation and distribution of promotional materials and resource videos for online and in-person events and visits in conjunction with the communications team
- Participate in planning and coordination of the Pulitzer Center’s Annual Conference. Conference themes have included gender, conflict transformation, religion and, for 2020, justice (which evolved into an online summer series because of COVID-19)
- Provide database and audience list support for events and related outreach
- Assist with events for Campus Consortium Reporting Fellows, including the Pulitzer Center’s Annual Reporting Fellows Washington Weekend
- Assist as needed with maintenance of Reporting Fellows’ records in Salesforce
Interested? Click HERE to Apply