The UNICEF International Internship Program in Iraq offers qualified university students a unique opportunity to acquire direct practical experience in UNICEF’s work under the direct supervision of experienced UNICEF staff.

UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to protect the rights of every child. It has spent 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. Further, it believes all children have a right to survive, thrive and fulfill their potential to the benefit of a better world.

Purpose of the UNICEF WASH Internship:

Iraq faces a unique set of environmental challenges as one of the MENA regions most vulnerable countries to climate change. Demographic growth puts further strain on natural resources that are themselves ever scarcer. Further, the Governments capacity to devise and implement the necessary adaptation and mitigation policies is undermined by a daunting context of post-conflict reconstruction.

Wars and violence have severely damaged Iraq’s water supply and sanitation infrastructure. Further, it has weakened the Governments capacity at all levels to manage WASH services. Also, it has resulted in a lack of access to potable water and basic sanitation facilities. Moreover, MICS6 shows that only 39.2% of the Iraq population have access to water service that meets JMP standard of ‘safely managed’ service and 23.6% have access to ‘safely managed’ sanitation service.

UNICEFs WASH programme is working to support the national priorities in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), by enhancing sector capacity to provide quality water and sanitation services for all with the involvement of stakeholders at various levels to ensure social inclusion.

In the absence of adequate documentation, WASH under its Knowledge Management strategy plan to analyze and disseminate information and document the trends, hence, the short-term intern will help to collect and document the available primary data, this will also enhance their academic knowledge with WASH Sector.

Under the supervision of the WASH Specialist, the intern will undertake the following tasks:

• Data collection
• Data analysis
• Behavior change

UNICEF International Internship is available at Baghdad, Iraq. The internship is available for 12 weeks starting from June 16 to August 15, 2019.

Qualifications:

• Be enrolled at a university in Iraq at the undergraduate or graduate level in Public Health and environment or related field is required
• Fluency in English is desirable.
• Knowledge of relevant computer systems and applications; excellent knowledge of MS Office is desirable.
• Good interpersonal, networking and communication skills;
• Further, Willingness to contribute and work as part of a team;
• Flexible and open to learning and new experiences;
• Respect for diversity and adaptability to other cultures and working environments;
• Computer skills (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, social media, and others)

How To Apply

Applicants may submit their application online.

Deadline

All eligible candidates must submit their online application before 28 April 2019. Any application arriving post deadline date are null and void.