Application Deadline: December 19th, 2025, at midnight NY eastern standard time (EST)
Applications are now open for the 2026 UNICEF Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Remote Internship.
Education Cannot Wait (ECW) is the first global multilateral fund dedicated to supporting education for children and youth (3–18-year-olds) in countries affected by wars, disasters, and protracted crises. It was launched at the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 by a broad coalition of international aid agencies and public and private donors to usher in faster and more sustainable education responses in crisis settings.
ECW is hosted by UNICEF. The Fund is administered under UNICEF’s financial, human resources and administrative rules and regulations, while operations are run by the Fund’s own independent governance structure that provides strategic guidance and oversight to its investments. ECW’s day-to-day activities are carried out by a Secretariat under the direction of the ECW Director.
ECW is establishing a roster of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) interns. The ECW Internship Programme offers qualified and eligible post-graduate students/graduates the opportunity to acquire direct practical experience in international humanitarian-development work in education under the direct supervision of the M&E team at the ECW Secretariat.
Internship Purpose:
Under the guidance of the Director of ECW and the direct supervision of ECW Monitoring and Evaluation staff, the interns provide technical M&E, reporting, communications and operational support for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating qualitative and quantitative data and analysis, while learning about organizational processes that enable implementation of the ECW workplan.
Requirements
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- Be at least 18 years old at the time of application.
- Be enrolled in a master’s degree programme or have graduated from a bachelor’s or master’s degree within the past three years.
- Have an academic background in any of the following:
- Education, international humanitarian/development and/or social sciences.
- Quantitative and or qualitative data analysis skills: data cleaning and management, analysis, impact evaluation, applied statistics (using R, STATA, Excel, Power Query, Kobo).
- Have academic or professional experience in any of the following:
- Synthesizing information and drafting global level reports in English, preferably in education or education in emergency matters.
- Analytic skills (solid experience using Excel is required, candidates with experience using R, PowerQuery, and other data management and statistics software are encouraged to apply).
- Have lived experience in a low-middle income country.
- Be proficient in English (speaking, writing & reading) up to the highest standard.
- Proficiency in French and/or Spanish is a plus.
- Have no immediate relatives (e.g., father, mother, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF office or in the ECW Secretariat.
- Are not disqualified under the UNICEF Child Safeguarding Personnel Standards (DHR/STANDARDS/2019/001), or as amended.
Benefits
- Interns will receive a stipend based on their location. USD 1,700 per month in the following offices: New York, Geneva, and Copenhagen; or 70% of the monthly salary of the GS level 3 step 1 in all other the duty stations.
Internship Details
- UNICEF expect remote online work to be the standard for this internship, but successful candidates must be able to commit to being online during Geneva/CET working hours. Office space is available in New York and Geneva based on discussion.
- The internship is full-time (35 hrs) and working hours are flexible and set-up in mutual discussion with the supervisor considering existing study commitments.
- Interns will be linked to the ECW Secretariat and M&E team in Geneva.
- Interns may take up to 2.5 days per month off work for any reason, including for medical reasons.
- The stipend will be reduced for any absence beyond this quota.
- ECW is looking for five interns in total. Expected starting date: between February and March 2026. Preferred duration: at least 5 months (maximum of 6 months; 26 weeks).
- An internship may be terminated by either party, with a notice period of at least two weeks.
For More Information:
Visit the Official Webpage of the UNICEF Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Remote Internship.
