Gender, Migration and Development Programme

Duration: 4-6 months

Starting Date: Beginning in January 2010 and throughout the year

Deadline for Application: N/A (internships are filled on an ongoing, first-come, first-served basis)

Under the supervision of UN-INSTRAW’s Information Officer, the intern will focus on activities related to communications on the Institute’s various gender, migration, remittances and development projects. In this regard, the intern shall undertake the following tasks:

1. Preparation, editing and/or translation of communications materials (press releases,fact sheets, interviews, etc.) related to the launching of INSTRAW case studies and other project documents

2. Collaboration (including literature review, fact-checking, layout etc.) in the preparation of presentations and other materials for UN-INSTRAW’s participation in specific meetings
3. Using the footage shot as part of various projects,preparation of specific audiovisual materials (interview clips, etc.) for the Institute’s Website (if appropriate skills are available)

4. Support to the organization of virtual dialogues and other knowledge management activities of the Programme.

Requirements:

o Graduate-level university degree in communications, journalism or other related field;

o Previous working experience - including internships and/or volunteer work –in communication on development issues, in particular migration and gender issues;

o Familiarity and experience with video editing would be a significant asset;

o Fluency in English is essential and a working knowledge of Spanish and/or French is highly desirable. Other languages are an additional asset;

o Sensitivity to gender issues and understanding of and interest in human development;

o Ability to work under pressure in order to meet deadlines, ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team;

o Excellent written communication skills;

o Familiarity with MS office, Excel, and internet browsers for research purposes.

What the Intern can expect to learn from the Internship:

o Deeper knowledge of gender issues in general and as pertaining to migration and remittances in particular.

o Knowledge of the UN system.

o Media incidence and monitoring skills;

o Networking and communication skills.

o UN language and writing skills.

Background:

Initially created in 1976 and established in the Dominican Republic in 1983, UN-INSTRAW is the only entity of the UN System with a mandate to promote and conduct research, capacity-building and knowledge management for gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the world.

Over the past four years, the Institute has consolidated its programme of work in four areas:

i) Gender, migration, remittances and development;

ii)Gender, peace and security;

iii) Governance and women’s political participation;

iv) Gender mainstreaming, particularly within the UN System.

Projects have been established in all regions of the world, covering different areas; from the gender dimensions of remittances in the Philippines to women’s political participation in Morocco and security sector reform and violence against women in Haiti. One of UN-INSTRAW’s priority research areas is gender, migration and remittances, through which we aim to highlight the increasingly influential role that women migrants play in the maintenance of their households and the development of their families and communities – both in countries of origin and destination. We promote the inclusion of a gender perspective in research, analysis and policy-making in relation to migration and
remittances.

Through international research studies INSTRAW seeks to increase the knowledge on the impact of international migration on development through a gender analysis in three broad areas:

o The contribution of women migrants to the development of their countries and their communities of origin, and the relevance of that contribution in the fight against poverty;

o How the migration of women is affecting gender roles in households and communities of origin;

o Strategies aimed at increasing the development potential of remittances with a development that includes women. The main objective of UN-INSTRAW’s research on gender, remittances and development is to effect a change in policy, programming and projects that seek to harness the development potential of remittances so that they take women’s participation, contribution,
needs and priorities into account. The results of UN-INSTRAW’s research will thus be used to formulate policy recommendations and capacity-building materials on the gender dimensions of remittances that will enable policy-makers and development practitioners to place women’s and gender issues at the centre of the international migration agenda.

For more information, please visit the UN-INSTRAW Gender, Migration and Development Webpage: www.un-instraw.org/en/grd/general/remitt...d-development-2.html