ICT Engineering Internship

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Unit of Information and Technology Management (ITM) in Copenhagen is responsible for supporting UNDP Country Offices around the world with ICT and Green Energy solutions. Our Unit offers a stimulating and versatile internship in an international environment with contact to various partners from some 166 countries with UNDP presence. We are a team who work in a dynamic and informal atmosphere, and we expect our interns to become vital members of the team.  

As an intern, you will be given tasks and opportunities that have a direct global impact on the development efforts of the international community. The UNDP ITM ICT Engineering internship programme enhances the academic life experience of passionate students as interns and empowers them to become socially responsible, innovative, and environmentally conscious leaders of tomorrow. We bridge the gap between textbook learning and real-life industry experience by taking interns behind the scenes of the world’s leading clean energy and sustainability initiatives, while learning to take into consideration the local context.  

Being a part of our dynamic unit, you will also gain worldwide connections with other top-talented interns and UN staff from other agencies; our office is located at the UN City in Copenhagen, giving you the opportunity to interact with people outside the UNDP ITM Unit. 

Assist in providing effective Digital Platform Services to UNDP Country Offices worldwide including: OneICTbox, Managed Security Services and cloud-based network infrastructure services.

Assist in providing advisory support to UNDP Country Offices to implement stable and robust ICT infrastructure through satellite services, firewall services and innovative ICT solutions 

Support the team in maintaining and upgrading Connectivity monitoring – SNMP 

Assist in promoting, testing and working with Cloud solutions – CISCO Meraki devices 

Assist in developing and implementing cloud-based unified communication system 

Support developing Business Applications based on SharePoint Online, PowerApps, PowerBI, together with Data Analytics tools 

Assist with Service management models including ITIL Best Practice and a Service Desk, Service Catalogue ???????? 

Contribute to draft quality focused training material, procedures, instructions and templates from best practice and disseminate through a Practice Community 

Assist the Unit in organizing internal and external conferences 

Assist in promotion of ITM’s overall ICT strategic framework and work plan pertaining to the minimum ICT standards, infrastructure, and connectivity dimensions 

Assist the Business Development Group in hosting webinars and presenting/explaining ICT solutions that are developed in-house to country offices 

Cloud computing: understands the cloud computing strategy and cloud-based infrastructure technologies, apply such knowledge and experience in developing infrastructure setup 

Information Security: knowledge in Information Security to apply in developing infrastructure setup 

ICT operation support: knowledge in ICT operation and support, applying standard practice and guideline in supporting colleagues 

Programming Skills: basic knowledge in developing scripts to automate management/operation tasks 

Client orientation: maintains effective relationships with clients to understand and meet or exceed their needs. Finds ways to ensure client satisfaction 

Process Innovation: Identifies opportunities for process, system and structural improvement as well as improving current practices, increasing effectiveness, and achieving efficiency gains. Actively supports the application of sound quality management standards and process improvement 

Project Management: Able to organize and structure different tasks, good analytical skills in gathering and consolidating data and research for practical implementation 

Communication: communicates effectively when working in teams and have a proactive attitude with a goal-oriented mind-set 

Collaboration: displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability and Interest and motivation in working in an international organization. 

You must meet one of the following requirements: 

You are currently in the final year of your Bachelor’s degree; or 

You are currently enrolled in a Master’s degree; or 

You have graduated no longer than 1 year ago from a master’s degree or equivalent studies in the field of Information communication technologies, network and telecommunications, computer science, or equivalent.  

Knowledge in one of the following fields is required: Internetworking, Network management, Microsoft collaboration tools, API programming or similar areas. 

Knowledge in Internetworking (TCP/IP, firewall, routing/switching, LAN, WIFI, etc.) is an advantage 

Knowledge in Unified communication (voice over IP technologies, Microsoft Exchange messaging platform, Cisco Call managers etc.) or Network Monitoring systems (SNMP based) is an advantage 

Knowledge in Microsoft collaboration and productivity Tools: Microsoft Office package, MS Teams, SharePoint, O365, Azure or google apps is an advantage 

Knowledge in developing API scripts and scripting languages is an advantage 

Knowledge with network architecture and network monitoring systems is an advantage 

Experience in managing and updating website content is an advantage 

Experience with gathering, consolidating and analysing data from databases and reports is an advantage 

Interest in developing sustainable solutions for country offices, focusing on ICT and renewable energy 

Fluent in written and spoken English is required. Working Knowledge of other UN languages is an advantage. 

Apply here: UNDP Jobs - 108311- ICT Engineering Internship