Responsibilities
Project Development The intern will:
- Support the delivery of ideation, feasibility
analysis, and project preparation support to sustainable urban development
infrastructure projects in the CIF Project Pipeline.
- Engage with CIF Implementing Partners – global
experts delivering project preparation support – to track, monitor and
guide the project preparation process.
- Support and facilitate project assessment, due
diligence and bankability assessment processes of projects within the CIF
Project Pipeline.
- Assist in the identification and incorporation
of ESG and SDG-oriented analysis and decision support methodologies within
the CIF.
- Assist the development of a Donor Tracker: a
database and analysis of relevant investors, and financiers engaged by
UN-Habitat, in support of launching a new Feasibility Fund, creating
agendas, presentation materials, taking action notes and providing follow-up
engagement, for internal UN-Habitat and external Partner meetings.
- Sustainable Finance The intern will: Conduct
thematic research on investment structures and risk mitigation
instruments.
- Prepare early-stage documentation on financial
structuring for projects onboarded into the CIF pipeline on how they align
with investor requirements and guarantee eligibility.
- Liaise with current and potential partners in
the areas of commercial and private investment and developing project
pipelines.
- Support the development of partnership
agreements: including memorandums of understanding, budgets, work plans,
marketing collateral and other relevant materials for CIF relationships
with partners as required.
- Contribute to developing and operationalizing
CIF’s strategy, roadmap and business model.
- Assist with developing a database and analysis
of relevant donors, investors and financiers who can support the work of
UN-Habitat and CIF.
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 Bachelor’s degree, Masters,
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: Bachelor’s or master’s
degree in international relations, Development Studies, Environmental
Social Governance, Economics, or related fields. 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.
How to Apply
