Internship - Library and Knowledge Management

Supports OHCHR’s Dynamic Knowledge and Library Team in Geneva to strengthen human-rights information services and the Human Rights Knowledge Gateway. Three internship profiles contribute research, intranet and knowledge-hub content, knowledge-sharing materials, data automation and information extraction, or library cataloguing, reference, digitisation and collection management.

• Support development of the Human Rights Knowledge Gateway and thematic knowledge hubs
• Conduct research and develop content and resources for human-rights knowledge hubs and the OHCHR intranet
• Organise knowledge-sharing events and produce knowledge-sharing materials, videos, tutorials and library guides
• Automate subject classification, website tagging and structured-information extraction from documents and sites
• Support daily library cataloguing, indexing, research, reference, digitisation and collection management

• Enrolment in a graduate programme or final year of a bachelor-level programme, or graduation within the preceding year
• Studies in library science, information science, knowledge management, human rights, law, international relations or a related field
• Fluency in English

• Knowledge of Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish

• Knowledge management
• Information research
• Data extraction
• Library cataloguing

• Human Rights Knowledge Gateway
• OHCHR intranet

• One job opening recruits three intern profiles: Library, Data Science and Communications or Knowledge Management