Job Opening ID: 271694
Job Family: Programme Management
Category and Level: Internship, I-1
Duty Station: NAIROBI
Department/Office: United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Deadline: Feb 23, 2026
Work Location
In-person, Nairobi, Kenya
Expected duration
6 months
Duties and Responsibilities
Org. Setting and Reporting The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities.
UN-Habitat is the focal point for all urbanization and human settlement matters within the UN system. UN-Habitat works with partners to build inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable cities and communities.
UN-Habitat promotes urbanization as a positive transformative force for people and communities, reducing inequality, discrimination, and poverty. Within UN-Habitat, the Regional Programme Division (RPD) provides strategic oversight, coordination, and support to UN-Habitat’s Regional and Country Offices to ensure coherent programme delivery, alignment with corporate priorities, and effective engagement with governing bodies and partners.
The RPD Front Office supports the Director of RPD in overseeing regional and country portfolios, coordinating divisional inputs to corporate processes, facilitating structured information flows between headquarters and the field, and strengthening internal data management and knowledge-sharing mechanisms. The intern will report to the associate programme management officer at RPD.
Responsibilities
The intern will support the RPD Front Office in the following tasks:
- Support divisional and corporate reporting requests, including consolidation and quality review of inputs from Regional and Country Offices
- Assist in the oversight of regional and country portfolios, including tracking key activities, deliverables, and priorities, and maintenance of relevant matrices and dashboards
- Support coordination of RPD inputs to corporate processes and governing bodies, including preparation of briefing materials and timelines
- Assist in ensuring coherence across RPD-HQ functions and alignment with other headquarters divisions
- Facilitate structured information flows between headquarters and the field, including tracking requests, deadlines, and follow-up actions
- Support data management, basic analysis, and data visualization, including the preparation or updating of dashboards, tables, and summaries
- Contribute to cross-regional knowledge management and learning, including documentation of good practices and lessons learned
- Support the preparation of presentations, briefing notes, and background documents for RPD senior management
- Perform other related duties as required by the supervisor
Qualifications/special skills
Applicants must, at the time of application, meet one of the following requirements:
- Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher),
- Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree program (minimum Bachelor's level or equivalent),
- Have graduated with a Bachelor's degree, Masters, a PhD, or equivalent.
- Be computer literate in standard software applications (Microsoft Office Suite).
- Have demonstrated a keen interest in the work of the United Nations and have a personal commitment to the ideals of the Charter.
- Have a demonstrated ability to successfully interact with individuals of different cultural backgrounds and beliefs, which includes a willingness to try and understand and be tolerant of differing opinions and views.
Preferred areas of study:
- International Development, Public Administration, International Relations, Economics, Statistics, Data Science, Management, Urban Studies, or a related field.
- Applicants to the UN Internship Programme are not required to have professional work experience.
- However, a field of study that is closely related to the type of internship that you are applying for is required.
- Applicants must be a student in the final year of the first university degree (bachelor's or equivalent), Master’s, or Ph.D. Programme or equivalent, or have completed a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. Programme.
Do you meet any of the above criteria? If yes, please indicate which one and attach proof to the application. Please note that you will have to provide an official certificate at a later stage. Experience in data management, analytical and data visualization software (e.g., Power BI) is desirable.
Languages
English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this internship position, fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of another UN language is desirable.
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