Call for interest: Internship (Multiple) with UNICEF's Global Shared Services Centre, Budapest, Hungary

Internship for 6 months starting in July/August 2026

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

For every child, a calling.

We are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of every child is not a job, it’s a calling.

Internships with UNICEF offer eligible students the opportunity to gain experience in UNICEF’s work and get familiar with its core values and mandate. This internship is designed to give you a strong start in your professional journey. You will have the chance to apply what you have learned during your studies in a real working environment, build practical skills, and gain meaningful experience supporting day-to-day work in a diverse and collaborative setting. For more information about GSSC please visit our webpage at Global Shared Services Centre (GSSC)  and check this YouTube

How can you make a difference?

Internships with UNICEF offer eligible students the opportunity to gain experience in UNICEF’s work and get familiar with its core values and mandate. This internship is designed to give you a strong start in your professional journey.

UNICEF’s Global Shared Services Centre (GSSC) is offering internship opportunities in the following areas:

1. Communication Intern:

• Support in visual design tasks, such as editing presentations, flyers or other visual materials.

• Write articles for the GSSC’s internal SharePoint site.

• Provide administrative SharePoint support to GSSC colleagues.

• Provide administrative support to the team as required.

• Support planning and execution of internal communications campaigns.

• Support staff engagement initiatives.

• Support the production of the GSSC’s podcast: Talking GSSC

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the Terms of Reference

Data & Analytics intern:

• Work with diverse datasets of varying complexity to design and conduct analyses.

• Apply and experiment with data cleaning, preparation, and analytical techniques to generate solutions that answer business questions.

• Translate business needs into data requirements and develop data-driven solutions.

• Develop dashboards to support decision-making.

• Document methodologies and process steps; prepare clear, well-structured deliverables for dissemination (e.g., presentations, briefs, reports).

• Contribute to specific tasks within data projects, collaborating closely with the team.

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the Terms of Reference

1. Communications & Technical Writing Intern:

• Draft, compile, and distribute regular newsletter

• Information gathering and presentations

• Portfolio stabilization and quality support

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the Terms of Reference

1. People & Culture Intern:

• Project support: Assist in the implementation of the HR Administration projects including project planning, tracking deliverables, and reporting progress.

• Data management: Collect, organize, and analyze HR data to support decision-making processes for various HR initiatives (e.g. recruitment, onboarding, talent development, benefits and entitlements).

• Documentation: Prepare project documentation, including project plans, meeting minutes, presentations, and reports.

• Process improvement: Assist in identifying opportunities for streamlining HR processes and recommend improvements.

• Conduct tests, quality spot checks to assess the accuracy of the system outcomes.

• Training support: Provide logistical and administrative support for HR training sessions and workshops.

• General administrative support: Handle other HR-related tasks as needed, including assisting with communications, coordinating meetings, and preparing materials.

1. Learning & Development Intern:

• Support learning platform management experts in building and testing online courses.

• Assist with system migration from Totara to Moodle Workplace.

• Work in collaboration with subject-matter and e-learning experts to finalize e-learning content and support their deployment in the Agora learning management system.

• Work with MS Teams/Zoom and the broadcast studio team to support the delivery of UNICEF’s global instructor-led training programs.

• Take on additional Learning and Development mini-projects which may be assigned based on the intern’s areas of interest and expertise.

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the Terms of Reference

1. Administrative (HR Off-boarding) Intern:

• Digitization of paper beneficiary form

• Ensure accuracy of data entry, handle illegible or incomplete data, ensure correct data mapping

• Perform quality and consistency checks, maintain confidentiality and data protection, should document encountered Issues and respect established timeliness and productivity.

1. Business Administration Intern:

• Assist with data collection, maintenance and analysis of standard monthly reports using tools such as SAP and Power BI to generate queries and insights

• Provide support in HR-related administrative tasks, including recruitment coordination and interview scheduling

• Contribute to HR analysis and other statistics for the Finance department

• Facilitate internal communications, organize meetings, and assist in preparing presentations

• Support the Data Analytics function in extracting, aggregating, and visualizing data, (e.g., PivotTables, charts, and data summaries).

1. Travel Administration Intern:

• Operational Travel Support

• Data Management & Tracking

• Documentation & Knowledge Management

• Reporting and Continuous Improvement

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the Terms of Reference.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Enrolled in a Master’s or Ph.D. degree or have graduated within the past two years related to the area of the internship. Preferably in Communications, Journalism, Business Administration, Public Administration, Information Management, Human Resources, Economics, Sociology, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Management or any related field, is required.

• Language Requirements: Fluency in English (verbal and written) is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Contract Duration and Terms:

• This internship contract is for 6-month duration, a minimum of 3 days in the office, 2 days from home per week

• Full-time working schedule: 40 hours per week; Part-time schedule: 30 hours per week

• Individuals must fund their travel and living expenses

• Individuals must have proof of medical insurance covering their time at the duty station

• Individuals are personally responsible for obtaining any required visa or residence permit, covering the entire period of their internship

• Interns may take up to 2.5 days per month off work for any reason, including for medical reasons. The stipend will be reduced for any absence beyond this quota

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships, (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness, (3) Drive to achieve results for impact, (4) Innovates and embraces change, (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity, (6) Thinks and acts strategically, (7) Works collaboratively with others

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be canceled.

Remarks:

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.

Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.