Daily responsibilities will depend on the individual’s background, the intern’s assigned office as well as the internship period.

Responsibilities

Under the supervision of Head Knowledge Management Support UN-Habitat, ERSKI Division, Knowledge and Innovations Branch, the intern will be responsible for supporting the Agency Archives and Records management Programme in the following ways;

• Participate in the processing of archives according to established principles.
• Participate in identifying, digitizing, and uploading relevant documents on past UN-Habitat project documents to knowledge resource page on in-house electronic system.
• Assist in identification, listing, transfer, and preservation of non-current records.
• Participate in the appraisal, disposal and developing finding aids to ensure efficient access.
• Participate in adding content in the intranet. Provide management support of the audiovisual archives through processing the audio-visual collection of UN-Habitat according to format i.e., photographs, videos, films, and sound recordings.
• Participate in the implementation of OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint Online.
• Assist in adding content to UN-habitat DAM (Canto).

Qualifications/special skills

Applicants must at the time of application meet one of the following requirements:

• 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 program (minimum Bachelor’s level or equivalent).
• Have graduated with Bachelor’s degree, Masters, PhD or equivalent.
• Be computer literate in standard software applications (Microsoft Office, PowerPoint and Excel).
• Have demonstrated a keen interest in the work of the United Nations and have a personal commitment to the ideals of the Charter.
• Have a demonstrated ability to successfully interact with individuals of different cultural backgrounds and beliefs, which includes a willingness to try and understand and be tolerant of

differing opinions and views.

Preferred areas of studies:

• Bachelor of Science in Information Sciences, Knowledge Management and IT, Library and Information Sciences or any other related field.
• No working experience is required to apply for the United Nations Internship Programme. Your training, education, advance course work or skills should benefit the United Nations during your internship.
• Experience in electronic documents and records management applications in managing paper and born-digital records is required.
• Experience in survey and appraisal of official records is desirable.
• Training in archives and records management is desirable.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this internship position, fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable.