Based in Geneva, Switzerland, UNOPS Geneva supports in providing management and financial/programmatic oversight of global and country specific portfolios and clusters including hosting services, fund management, management advisory services, implementing projects, procuring goods and services and managing human resources.
The Geneva Office ensures that projects are executed to the highest standards, providing a shared knowledge base and ensuring that best practices and lessons learned are disseminated between business units and projects.
RBM Partnership to End Malaria
The past fifteen years have seen tremendous gains in reducing the burden of disease and progressing towards malaria elimination. Since 2000, global malaria deaths have been cut by more than half, saving 7 million lives, primarily among children less than five years of age. Expansions in financing, strong political commitments, novel diagnostic and preventative measures, and multi-sectoral coordination have facilitated this progress. Since 1998, RBM Partnership to End Malaria has been central to the global fight against malaria. It has been essential to mobilizing resources and scaling up innovative interventions, putting the world onto a path towards eliminating malaria. The Partnership comprises more than 500 partners committed to end malaria, including malaria endemic countries, their bilateral and multilateral development partners, the private sector, nongovernmental and community-based organizations, foundations, and research and academic institutions.
The RBM Partnership’s Vision is of a world free from the burden of malaria. The RBM Partnership is based in Geneva and hosted by UNOPS.
Functional Responsibilities
The internship is a learning and working opportunity that provides insight to the finance function in UNOPS. The Finance intern will assist the Finance team and provide support to the Finance Team in the RBM Secretariat. The intern will be exposed to practical learning and working experiences that foster development of his /her path. The Intern will work full time and follow the same working hours as UNOPS employees. Under the guidance and supervision of Finance & Grants Officer, the Finance Intern will be responsible for supporting a variety of functional tasks and work packages, including but not limited to:
Expenditure control and monitoring
- Review the recorded transactions in the system by ensuring that expenditure is coded to the correct place and prepare corrective journals as needed.
- Routine monitoring of financial expenditure for unusual activities, transactions and investigation of anomalies or unusual transactions.
- Regularly monitoring and tracking the balance sheet account balances, preparing the reversal journal entries and cleansing of the balancing figures when assigned
- Support in the tracking of all advances covering operational advances, petty cash, tax, pre-payments, advance financing etc ensuring timely reconciliation and settlement backed with complete supporting documentation.
- With guidance from the Finance and Grants Officer, the intern will support the review of requests for operational advances, ensuring complete documentation, review expenditures reports for settlement, clearance, and replenishment;
- With oversight from the supervisor, prepare the aged list of unliquidated obligations and agree on actions with the supervisor for further action.
Audit
- Support finance team during expenditure verifications on tasks as assigned
- Support in reviewing and ensuring that all the transactions are supported by proper and sufficient supporting documentation.
- Support in liaising with different departments in collecting supporting documentation.
- Filing: Review and ensure maintenance of files including electronic filing system for all financial records and documentation.
Other
- Support the Finance department with administrative activities related to financial management as required.
- Overall Filling: Ensure maintenance of files, all financial records and documentation;
- Provides support on ad-hoc finance-related matters as needed and as assigned by the Finance and Grants Officer.
Training components and learning elements
UNOPS highly values interns’ contributions and appreciates the importance of learning during an internship. UNOPS thus provides a wealth of opportunities for on-the-job training, studying project-related documents, data analysis and preparation of reports and statistics.
UNOPS encourages the intern to raise specific wishes regarding learning opportunities before and during the internship. S/he will have access to a large offering of online training on the comprehensive UNOPS intranet
Participation in missions or training courses
Exposure to UNOPS processes and activities; If mission travel is undertaken, Daily Subsistence Allowance, in accordance with UN policy
Additional comments
The internship comes with no expectations of future employment with UNOPS as a direct result of the internship. The internship is offered initially for 6 months. Candidates who are unable to commit to at least 6 months are requested to not apply.
How to apply
For more information and to apply, please visit UNOPS Jobs