Intern - Political Affairs

Supports leadership recruitment and talent-pool development for UN peacekeeping and political missions. The intern researches senior candidates, maintains confidential profiles and reporting, prepares mission and stakeholder materials, and contributes to outreach and data work that strengthens leadership selection processes.

• Research and update confidential candidate profiles for senior leadership positions
• Support database cleanup and profile reviews for selection processes
• Prepare mission and country profiles and stakeholder mappings
• Assist outreach materials, meeting documents and leadership news reporting
• Collect leadership-trend data and prepare internal reports
• Support recruitment, onboarding and assessment-related projects

• Enrollment in or completion of a graduate programme, or final year or completion of a bachelor's programme
• Field of study related to the internship
• Knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams
• Ability to draft news articles or social-media posts
• Fluency in spoken and written English

• Power BI or CRM data-management knowledge
• Graphic or visual editing software knowledge
• Survey and poll design capability
• Additional official UN language knowledge

• Research and due diligence
• Talent-pool management
• Stakeholder mapping
• Data reporting
• Confidential information handling
• Graphic design support

• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Teams
• Power BI
• Canva
• Adobe products

• Unpaid full-time internship
• 35 hours per week
• Duration 3 to 6 months
• Strong preference for in-person work in New York; remote adjustment may be possible
• Travel, visa, accommodation and living expenses are the intern's responsibility