Two Legal Internships with the Office of the Executive Director (OED), New York Headquarters, and Copenhagen, Denmark, 6 months

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 [https://www.unicef.org/] to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

For every child, commitment

UNICEF’s Legal Team supports the organization’s business units around the world

• our clients – by delivering strategic legal solutions through collaboration.

We provide legal advice that is risk-informed, timely, responsive, and pragmatic. We empower clients and build their capacity to self-help. We proactively engage in anticipating trends and challenges and develop systemic solutions, and we protect UNICEF by identifying legal, reputational and other risks, and helping to mitigate those risks. Our lawyers are based in several UNICEF locations, including at New York Headquarters, and in several other duty stations, including Rome, Copenhagen and Brussels.

The Legal Team is seeking two highly motivated legal interns ( one for New York and one for Copenhagen Office) to support its work and gain practical experience in the legal function of an international organization. Please indicate your preference for the location (if any) in the cover letter.

How can you make a difference?

The internship is intended to provide a law student or recent law graduate with practical exposure to the legal work of a large international organization