Summer International Internships
Organization: UNICEF Kazakhstan Child Protection Program
The UNICEF Kazakhstan Child Protection programme collaborates with the Government
to further develop an effective central and local level child protection mechanisms, including
prevention of 0-3 age child abandonment, an independent child rights monitoring, data
collection and coordinated cross-sectoral systems of detection of, referral for and response
to the physical, psychological and social impact of violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation and
exclusion. It enhances decision-making and the targeting of resources through improved
gender-disaggregated data collection and mapping of children not currently reached or
neglected like children with disabilities in line with the principle of the best interest of the
child in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. There is a particular focus on
children in residential education and care institutions, children with disabilities and children
in contact with the law, including child victims and witnesses of crime.
Location:
Astana, Kazakhstan
Website:
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/kazakhstan_latest.html
Position: An intern at UNICEF Child Protection will be responsible for providing technical,
logistical and administrative support to the Program in particular:
1. Studying UNICEF Kazakhstan work in theory and practice
2. Assistance in developing child protection communication materials
3. Interview target groups of UNICEF’s assisted projects and write human interest stories
4. Assistance to the Astana based child abandonment prevention, social inclusion of children
with disabilities, justice for children and child care system reform programs in mainstreaming
social work, fine-tuning reports for production, reviewing the draft studies and tools
5. Assistance in developing donor proposals in child protection area
6. Participation in UNICEF CP events/meetings with partners and program monitoring visits
7. Provision of support in work processes, telephone calls, filing and copying of documents;
8. Develop a brief final report on internship/volunteering at UNICEF
Required Skills:
1. The candidate intern would need to be enrolled at the university level in social, legal, health
or pedagogical fields
2. The candidate intern would have good communication skills
3. The candidate intern should be able to work effectively on multiple assignments
simultaneously and adapts to changing demands and circumstances.
4. The candidate intern should have interpersonal skills – able to work well in a multicultural
team environment.
5. The candidate intern should have knowledge of Russian and/or Kazakh Language.
Content Area: law, human rights, policy, media relations, children's issues, marginalized populations
Dates: Minimum of 6 weeks, maximum of 15 weeks
February 10, 2014
Contact Info:
astana@unicef.org
Mr. Jun Kukita – Head of Kazakhstan Office
Jkukita@unicef.org
Mrs. Zhanar Zhumabekova – Human Resource staff
zzhumabekova,
Ms. Tatiana Aderikhina – Supervisor
taderkhina@unicef.org
February 10, 2014