General Background
UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world.
UNOPS Careers |Infrastructure and Project Management (IPM) Intern
Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development. UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.
Working with us
UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.
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Diversity
With over 5,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,400 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.
Work life harmonization
UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.
Background information – IPMG
UNOPS strategic focus places increased emphasis on national capacity development and sustainable approaches to project management, procurement and infrastructure services.
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A key objective is to be recognized as an organisation that delivers economically and socially sustainable world-class infrastructure and do so even in the most challenging environments. To achieve this goal, UNOPS has established the Infrastructure and Project Management Group (IPMG).
Within UNOPS, it is IPMG’s objective to serve the organization’s personnel and partners by broadening their infrastructure and project management capabilities, while disseminating best practices in both of these areas. Through this work, the group helps facilitate the successful delivery of programs and projects around the world.
To achieve its objectives, IPMG has established six interrelated and interdependent technical streams, namely, Strategic Initiatives, Standards, Engagement Assurance, Gender Equality and Inclusion (GESI), Grant Support and Transformation, that are supported by the Portfolio Support team. IPMG is managed overall by the Director of IPMG.
Background information – Engagement Assurance
The Engagement Assurance unit, as part of IPMG, provides an organizational oversight function and considers the application of standards, guidance and best practice throughout the execution of programmes and associated projects.
This unit delivers oversight functions through three teams, that of the Risk Based Performance Assessment team (RBPA), the Organizational Portfolio Management Office team (OPMO) and the Infrastructure Design Review Team (DR).
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IPMG’s Risk-based Performance Assessment (RBPA) process aims to assist UNOPS Operational Hubs (OH), Operation Centres (OC), and Project Centres (PC) in understanding how portfolios, programmes and projects are being delivered in line with UNOPS systems and processes. These assessments look to define both the organizational and operational risk exposure of the office and support not only the mitigation of risk but also the development of organizational systems, process and standards.
IPMG’s Organizational Portfolio Management Office (OPMO) also assists in the identification of risks and issues associated with portfolios, programmes and projects. The team has a central function of overseeing system-based engagement / programme and project activity and monitoring adherence to policy, process, systems and tools across the organization with a specific focus on infrastructure and project management.
IPMG’s Design Review team has the role of assuring the quality of all infrastructure designs developed and delivered within UNOPS. The primary aims are to ensure that minimum requirements for life safety and functionality of design are maintained and to achieve a consistent, effective and efficient approach in infrastructure activities for our donors and beneficiaries. This position is within the Design Review team.
Purpose and Scope of Assignment
Under the overall guidance and supervision of IPMG Design Review Coordinator, the successful candidate will be responsible for supporting a variety of tasks to support the design review team. We are seeking qualified applicants who may have a background in infrastructure and project management and who are extremely structured, organized, and detail oriented. The main support areas will be data analysis as well as communication and administration tasks.
At the end of this internship, the successful candidate will have gained in:
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- Experience through exposure to UNOPS project management and infrastructure corporate standards and activities.
- Experience with the processes and methods employed to enable quality assurance and design oversight of UNOPS Infrastructure Projects.
- Experience working with international personnel and in a diverse working environment.
- Exposure to an operational arm of the United Nations.
- An appreciation of UNOPS application of international best practices in project management across its global portfolio.
Functional Responsibilities
Support the administration of design review: Respond to or coordinate …
Competencies
Treats all individuals with respect; responds sensitively to differences.
Education/Experience/Language requirements
Educational Requirement Completion of secondary school or equivalent.
Contract type, level and duration
Contract type: Intern Contract level: Intern Contract duration: 6 Months
