Intern – Girls’ Vision for the Future, Yaoundé, Cameroon

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. 

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. 

And we never give up. 

For every child, Hope 

UNICEF has been working in Cameroon since 1975 to allow women and children to fully realize their rights to development without restriction, as enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. UNICEF provides financial and technical support to Cameroon across seven areas to fully realize the rights of women and children. These areas include Health, HIV/AIDS, Water-sanitation-Hygiene, nutrition, education, child protection, and social inclusion. UNICEF focuses mainly on children and the most vulnerable and excluded families. The task is immense but not insurmountable; it requires the energy of all stakeholders in Cameroon and outside of Cameroon: women, men, youth and children, government, technical and financial partners, donors, civil society, the private sector, parliamentarians, and communities. Everyone is invited to take part in the struggle to meet the challenges that lie ahead. Together, we will act for Cameroon, a country that summarizes the challenges and hopes of Africa.

For more information about UNICEF Cameroon, please click here.

How can you make a difference? 

The intern will support our ongoing efforts to promote girls’ rights and empowerment through the regional Summit on ‘Girls’ Vision for the Future’ slated to take place in 2025. The summit, a key objective of the WCAR Girls’ aims to develop a regional Agenda on Girls’ Rights. To achieve this objective, the Cameroon Country Office is committed to launching a girls’ movement to support girls’ groups and local partners as well as empower girls and their groups, by enabling them to advocate for the incorporation of key elements from the Regional Agenda into national legal and policy frameworks.

How can you make a difference? 

• Serve as Secretariat of the DOers and assist in the delivery of their tasks, working closely with the coordinator.
• Conduct a mapping of key stakeholders working for and with girls in the 10 regions of Cameroon in collaboration with field offices and key partners.
• Conduct a mapping of girls’ organizations or groups.
• Assist in the development and monitoring of the Action Plan and the Girls’ Agenda for Cameroon.
• Identify all opportunities to contribute to the success of the initiative.
• Communicate the progress made in implementing the Action Plan.
• Assist with the compilation and dissemination of information materials prepared to

For more details on the required activities view the attachment:  TORS Intern Girls Vision for the future.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:

• To be enrolled in a degree programme in an undergraduate, or graduate school, or be a recent graduate in anthropology, psychology, sociology, gender studies, education or another relevant technical field.
• Be proficient in both of UNICEF’s working languages English and French
• Have strong academic performance as demonstrated by recent university or institution records or, if not available, a reference letter from an academic supervisor
• Have no immediate relatives (e.g. father, mother, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF office
• Are not disqualified under the UNICEF Child Safeguarding Personnel Standards (DHR/STANDARDS/2019/001), or as amended.

Additional Knowledge.

• In community engagement and project management.
• In Research, analytical, and communication skills.
• In multi-sectoral partnerships and skills training system development are considered assets in designing and managing consultation and research on different fields.
• Previous working experience will be an asset

For every Child, you demonstrate… 

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness(3)Drive to achieve results for impact(4)Innovates and embraces change(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity(6)Thinks and acts strategically(7)Works collaboratively with others.

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:  

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable female candidates are encouraged to apply.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.