United People Global (UPG) is recruiting a Project Intern to support our growing community as part of contributing to our mission to make the world a better place. This work is at the heart of our community and it involves interacting with and serving our mission and our community.
While this position is not paid, this internship will provide the intern with new and valuable, real-world work experience, and will offer an opportunity to learn from an organisation with global reach and opportunity to create an impact. The UPG Internship is focused on professional learning and growth with a goal to help new professionals get started in their careers and help existing professionals get stronger. The role comes with the following benefits:
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Professional growth: add experiences and exposure to your CV that strengthen your professional profile in your chosen domain
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Network: strengthen your professional and personal networks: be part of an international network and a community that spans across world regions.
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Purpose: there is the possibility to lead or to participate in activities that are meaningful to you.
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Remote working
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Possibility to do the role Part time or Full time
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Flexible working hours
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A diverse range of professional and functional experiences
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Volunteers have priority for each new paid vacancy that opens up
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Additional benefits are shared with the successful candidate
Position Description
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Research Action: Explore and review cases of people taking action in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, both locally and globally.
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Advisory / Facilitating Action: Participate in the processes designed to provide counsel that moves stakeholders to take action and/or that helps to brainstorm solutions to bottlenecks that they may face. This also includes opportunities to design and to execute innovative and other specific ideas to achieve this purpose.
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Amplifying Action through connecting: Participate in activities to support the replication of actions and/or the scaling of actions.
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Insights: Distilling insights from the work facilitating action related to Covid19.
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Literature review and analysis on COVID-19 scientific research, medical updates. Writing
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summary on updates. This work will be featured in different channels.
Qualifications / Skills:
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Verbal communication
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Organisation
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Scheduling
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Professionalism
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Customer focus
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Confidentiality
Location: The role is remote.
Dates: The duration is 6 months for this role.
Commitment Hours: Between 10 Hours and 40 Hours weekly.
Remuneration: This is an unpaid internship position.
Application deadline: Application is on a rolling basis until the position is filled.