The internship is located with the Firearms Trafficking Section (FTS), Organized Crime and Illicit Trafficking Branch (OCB), Division for Treaty Affairs (DTA), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna (Austria). The intern shall undertake the following duties which may include, but are not limited to:

• Support the work and activities of the Global Firearms Programme, including its normative and intergovernmental work, technical assistance activities, and tools development work;
• Assist in the preparation of technical assistance workshops, meetings, high-level events and conferences and support related follow up actions;
• Conduct research on both legal documents, official and open sources on various aspects related to firearms issues and contribute to the preparation of technical documents, background papers, country profiles, news events, presentations, reports, summaries, talking points and speeches;
• Contribute to drafting of progress reports and donor reports;
• Draft ordinary correspondence and communications, attend and take notes at meetings;
• Perform other tasks as necessary.

• Applicants must meet one of the following requirements:
  • (a) be enrolled in, or have recently completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher);
  • (b) be enrolled in, or have recently completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor's degree or equivalent).
• Be computer literate in standard software applications;
• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. Fluency in spoken and written English, French or Spanish is required for the internship. Knowledge of an additional official UN language is an advantage. Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish are the official languages of the United Nations Secretariat.