UPSHIFT Scale Intern
Organizational Context
UNICEF operates in over 190 countries, dedicated to saving children's lives, defending their rights, and helping them reach their full potential. We are committed, passionate, and proud of our work, viewing the promotion of every child's rights not just as a job, but as a calling. UNICEF fosters professional and personal development, offering diverse opportunities to reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children globally.
Job Purpose
The UPSHIFT Scale Intern will support the tracking, management, and research of UNICEF's flagship UPSHIFT programme, focusing on digital and Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiatives. This role involves maintaining inventories of digital platforms and AI tools, conducting research on emerging technologies relevant to youth skills development and social entrepreneurship, and supporting the testing and implementation of these solutions. The intern will also contribute to knowledge management, communications, and process improvement, streamlining workflows using digital and AI tools. A key responsibility will be to assist in consolidating the digital portfolio and country activities into a structured handover package for the Education team, ensuring the sustainable scale and integration of UPSHIFT into educational systems and digital platforms.
Responsibilities
Support the tracking of UPSHIFT Digital and AI initiatives, including countries, platforms, milestones, actions, and dependencies, ensuring regular updates and follow-ups. Maintain and organize the inventory of UPSHIFT digital platforms, AI tools, content, workflows, and technology assets, ensuring proper documentation for easy reuse. Conduct targeted research on emerging AI, digital learning, and technology solutions relevant to UPSHIFT, synthesizing findings and identifying potential applications for scale. Assist in testing, documenting, and refining digital and AI solutions, and support country-level preparation, implementation tracking, and coordination for pilots and rollouts. Organize key documents, meeting notes, learnings, and project information, and support the preparation of presentations, briefing notes, and dashboards for stakeholders. Consolidate the digital portfolio, country activities, existing assets, implementation documentation, and outstanding commitments into a structured handover package for the Education team. Identify repetitive activities and explore opportunities for streamlining, automation, or workflow improvement using digital and AI tools, while supporting priority projects and strategic initiatives.
Work Experience
No specific work experience is listed as a minimum requirement, but experience or demonstrated interest in digital platforms, AI, project support, research, or knowledge management would be beneficial.
Skills
Digital asset management, AI tools and applications, Research and analysis, Knowledge management, Project coordination, Data tracking and reporting, Process improvement, Communication, Documentation, Problem-solving, Adaptability, Teamwork