The project “Supporting Renewable Energy Transition in ger districts for an increase benefit to livelihood” aims to support 50 women headed households from the ger district of Ulaanbaatar with procurement and installation of electric heater, photovoltaic equipment for heating purposes to ensure healthy living condition with a clean indoor air quality for least advantaged households. This project will promote a solution to introduce renewable energy based heating linked to market based incentive, along with chances for women to excercize community leadership and behaviour change. To ensure that the environment for Mongolia carbon market is in place, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism will be supported to develop national carbon market regulatory framework. UNDP Acceleration Lab will run experiment to explore the role that women can have in managing of this climate induced health crisis but also empowers them to take the lead in transformative initiatives within their communities.
The objective of the project: To enhance community resilience in Mongolian sub-urban communities facing climate change induced health impacts and costs associated with air pollution, while simultaneously addressing gender inequalities and biases, by actively engaging and empowering women as key stakeholders in climate-resilient practices, inclusive leadership, and crisis prevention processes.
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the overall guidance and supervision of the National Project Manager, the intern is expected to provide a day-to-day support to the UNDP Project Unit. He/she will carry out the following specific tasks and responsibilities.
- Support the project communications and advocacy related activities.
- Provide support in preparation of program information and documents, including but not limited to social media posts, concept notes, workshop agendas, training materials, etc., and ensure the accuracy of the translated documents;
- Support the implementation of communications and media strategy, including drafting social media posts and other communication-related texts in accordance with UNDP communications policy and brand guidelines;
- Perform other related duties as required.
2. Support the day-to-day project administration related work:
- Provide administrative and logistics support in the organization of online and in-person meetings, conferences, workshops, trainings and travel;
- Perform other relevant operational and administrative duties as relate to the project implementation
- Assist on procurement procedure in accordance with UNDP rules and regulations.
Location:
MongoliaBenefits
- UNDP will provide a stipend in the amount of USD 223.07 monthly in accordance with the provisions of the UNDP Internship policy, unless the intern is financially supported by another institution in which case UNDP will pay the difference if any.
Eligibilities
Candidates must meet one of the following educational requirements at the time of application:
- Be enrolled in a postgraduate degree programme (such as a master’s programme, or higher);
- Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (such as bachelor’s degree or equivalent);
- Have recently graduated with a university degree (as defined in (a) and (b) above) and, if selected, must start the internship within one-year of graduation;
- Be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program and undertake the internship as part of this program.
- Applicants are not required to have professional work experience but experience working in interpretation and translation areas are highly desired.
Required skills and competencies.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills;
- Ability to follow up immediately and facilitates solutions to challenges and attention to details;
- Ability to focus on a variety of tasks within deadlines and to work under time pressure;
- Strong work ethics and commitment;
- Team player, organized and resourceful;
- Ability to work as part of a team in an international and multicultural environment.
Required Language(s)
- Excellent command of English, both oral and written;
- Outstanding interpreting, reading, writing, translating skills;
- Knowledge and understanding of technical matters in the working languages.
Application Process
- Eligible candidates should apply through the organisation’s official web portal with the necessary documents. The web portal can be accessed by clicking on the “Apply Now” button below.
Application Deadline: February 5, 2024
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