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UNICEF’s Office of Innovation is recruiting one intern to help expand UPSHIFT’s digital learning and artificial-intelligence work. UPSHIFT develops young people’s transferable skills and social-enterprise ideas through practical learning, mentoring and human-centred design.
Organization: UNICEF
Location: Remote, with the supervising Office of Innovation in Stockholm, Sweden
Deadline: 20 October 2026, 11:55 p.m. Central European Summer Time
Duration: Six months, full-time
Planned start: 26 October 2026
Vacancy: 596280
Responsibilities
- Keep digital and AI initiatives, participating countries, platforms, milestones, dependencies and follow-up actions organized.
- Maintain a reusable inventory of technology platforms, AI tools, learning content and workflows.
- Research emerging AI and digital-learning solutions and assess their possible use in UPSHIFT.
- Help test and document solutions, prepare country pilots and track implementation.
- Organize project records and meeting notes; prepare presentations, briefings and dashboards.
- Consolidate country activities, assets, implementation records and outstanding commitments for handover to the Education team.
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive work and support emerging priority projects.
Expected outputs
Deliver monthly progress and risk updates, a current digital/AI portfolio tracker, an organized asset database, meeting and action trackers, and a monthly scan of relevant innovations.
Eligibility and skills
- Be at least 18 and enrolled in undergraduate, postgraduate or doctoral study, or have graduated within two years.
- Relevant fields include digital or education technology, data analytics, business management, innovation/design, development studies, international relations, communications and AI applications.
- Use Microsoft Office or Google Workspace confidently, especially spreadsheets and presentation tools.
- Have experience maintaining information, trackers or databases and producing clear presentations and summaries.
- Demonstrate organization, time management and fluent written and spoken English.
- Digital-learning knowledge, AI-assisted research or automation, data visualization, international teamwork and another UN language are advantages.
- Demonstrate UNICEF’s values and meet its safeguarding and background-check requirements.
Stipend and practical arrangements
A monthly stipend contributes towards living costs. Interns outside Stockholm work remotely. The selected applicant must hold health and accident insurance for the full assignment. Interns obtain any necessary visa themselves; UNICEF can supply supporting consular documentation.
How to apply
Open the official vacancy and select Apply Now. Complete the application using your relevant education, digital-project experience and availability.
Official terms of reference (PDF) · UNICEF internship programme