Social Policy Intern, 5 Months, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (For Non-Ethiopian nationals)

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture.., coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

For every child, the right to a bright future

Ethiopia is situated in the Horn of Africa and is the second most populous country on the continent with an estimated population of 115 million. It borders six African countries: Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan, and covers 1,104,300 square kilometers. Approximately 85 percent of the population lives in rural areas. Ethiopia represents a melting pot of ancient cultures with Middle Eastern and African cultures evident in the religious, ethnic, and language composition of its people.

Over the past two years, children and their families across Ethiopia faced multiple and complex emergencies, such as the conflict in the northern Ethiopia and the drought, which resulted in millions of people in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. UNICEF has programmes in Child Protection, WASH, Health, Nutrition, Social Policy, and Education and serves over 15 million children in Ethiopia. Join UNICEF Ethiopia to contribute to improving the lives of children and women.

How can you make a difference?

Main tasks and responsibilities

The intern will support the Social Policy Section in the following areas:

Evidence generation and data support for cash transfer programmes

• Support analysis, compilation and organization of quantitative and qualitative evidence related to cash transfer programmes.
• Assist with desk-based reviews of assessments, post-distribution monitoring (PDM) reports, programme documents, and administrative data related to social protection interventions.
• Contribute to summarizing key findings on vulnerability, inclusion and programme performance to inform internal analysis and planning.

Knowledge management and reporting

• Contribute to drafting of donor reports, annual reports, or programme summaries, particularly those related to social protection and equity.
• Support documentation of lessons learned, best practices, and emerging evidence from ongoing programmes or pilots.
• Support drafting or contributing inputs to analytical outputs related to cash transfer interventions such as internal briefs, presentations, or learning summaries.

Monitoring and evaluation support

• Support review and documentation of existing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks, indicators, or results related to social protection programmes.
• Assist in compiling information for results monitoring, learning, and reporting purposes, including tracking of indicator or qualitative progress.
• Contribute to capturing lessons learned and emerging insights from programme implementation and analytical work.

Programme and partner coordination

• Support coordination with other UNICEF sections, especially Social and Behaviour Change, Nutrition, Health, and Child Protection to promote integrated approaches to social protection.
• Assist in organizing meetings, workshops and consultations with government counterparts, UN agencies, and development partners.
• Support follow-up on meetings and action points.

Communication and programme visibility

• Support communication and visibility of the social protection programme and interventions.
• Contribute to development of communication materials and products.
• Support documentation and organization of communication and visibility inputs, including compiling content for donor reporting.

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

Minimum requirements:

To be considered for the internship, applicants have to meet the following requirements:

• Enrolment in a degree programme in an undergraduate or graduate school, or recent graduate.
• Proficiency in at least one of UNICEF’s working languages: English, French or Spanish and fluent in the working language of the office of assignment
• Strong 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 which the intern will report to.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

Core Values

• Care
• Respect
• Integrity
• Trust
• Accountability
• Sustainability

Competencies

• Builds and maintains partnership
• Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
• Drive to achieve results for impact
• Innovates and embraces change
• Manages ambiguity and complexity
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Works collaboratively with others

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Remarks:

UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, eligible and suitable are encouraged to apply.

Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.