Health and Wellness Intern

Work Location

Full time & In-Person; Nairobi

Expected duration

6 months

Duties and Responsibilities

The United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) is the UN headquarters in Africa and the Director-General of UNON is the representative of the Secretary-General in Kenya. UNON supports programme implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and the Resident Coordination System (RCS) globally, as well as other UN offices in Kenya, by providing administrative, security, conference and information services (www.unon.org).

This position is located at UNON Joint Medical Services (JMS), Gigiri, in Nairobi.

The Joint Medical Service (JMS) internship is offered for a period of 6 months. Interns work five days per week (35 hours) and are under supervision of the designated JMS Senior Nurse.

Under direct supervision of the JMS Senior Nurse, the interns will assist the program manager in the implementation of the JMS Wellness programme and specifically perform the following duties under guidance:

• Assist in the preparation of health and wellness communication tools.
• Assist in health promotion and outreach activities focused on staff wellness. The JMS intern will participate in healthy U campaigns, fitness promotion activities and group challenge activities.
• Assist in providing administrative support for wellness activities.
• Assist in promoting awareness on healthy nutrition and providing support for nutrition -based wellness activities.
• Assist in disseminating health awareness content through the JMS website, online newsletter articles and social media platforms.
• Assist in data collection and data analytics, including support to research activities, monitoring and evaluation of JMS wellness and related programmes, supporting surveys and interviews, report writing, and presentation of recommendations.
• Assist in promoting public health awareness and supporting JMS interventions for prevention & control of infectious disease outbreaks.
• Assist with administrative support for the HIV Workplace programme including support for the annual UN Run, Children’s HIV training and other programmatic activities.
• Utilization of the activities and experiences contemplated in this role to learn, to be engaged and to gain the core skills as per the learning objectives of the sponsoring college / institution.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned.

Qualifications/special skills

Applicants must at the time of application, meet one of the following requirements:

a. Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher), b. Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree program (minimum Bachelor's level or equivalent), c. Have graduated with Bachelor's degree, Masters, PhD or equivalent.

Preferred areas of study: Nutrition and Dietetics, Public Health, Wellness Studies, Health Communications or related fields of study.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this internship position, fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable.

Additional Information

Not available.

Intern Specific text

Interns are not financially remunerated by the United Nations. Costs and arrangements for travel, visas, accommodation and living expenses are the responsibility of interns or their sponsoring institutions. Interns who are not citizens or permanent residents of the country where the internship is undertaken, may be required to obtain the appropriate visa and work/employment authorization. Successful candidates should discuss their specific visa requirements before accepting the internship offer.

No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.