Job Description
Job Identification: 18008
Posting Date: 12/09/2025, 03:08 PM
Apply Before: 12/16/2025, 11:55 PM
Contract Type: Internship (2-6 months)
Initial Contract Duration: 3 months
Vacancy Type: Internship
Recruiting Type: Intern
Grade: UG
IOM is committed to ensuring a workplace where all employees can thrive professionally, while working towards harnessing the full potential of migration. Read more about IOM’s workplace culture at IOM workplace culture | International Organization for Migration.
The Internship Programme aims at attracting talented students and graduates who have a specific interest in, or whose studies have covered, areas relevant to IOM programmes and activities. Interns must be between 20 and 36 years old and should have less than two years of relevant working experience.
In general, the Internship Programme aims at attracting talented students and graduates who:
- have a specific interest in, or whose studies have covered, areas relevant to IOM programmes and activities;
- are holding a scholarship for internship placements in international organizations and/or for whom internship is required to complete their studies; or
- are sponsored by governmental/non governmental institutions and/or academia to work in specific areas relevant to both IOM and the sponsor.
- are either enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor’s level or equivalent) or have graduated in the last 12 months.
- are between 20 and 36 years of age.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Supervision
Under the overall supervision of the Chief Migration Health Officer and direct supervision of the Senior Medical and Information Management Assistant, the Medical Assistant Intern will be responsible in carrying out the following duties and responsibilities in relation to the Migration Health Assessment Centre (MHAC) in Manila, Philippines.
Learning Objectives
The medical assistant intern may be assigned to the two subunits within the Migration Health Assessment Centre (MHAC): the reception and the communications centre. Below is a description of the possible tasks:
Communications Centre duties:
- Register migrants in the IOM database and other medical web applications.
- Schedule and confirm medical appointments and receive and communicate messages for medical staff and beneficiaries through the programme-specific mailboxes and calls including walk-in applicants.
- Maintain daily statistics related to health assessments and update records.
Reception and Data Entry duties:
- Perform data processing activities of the Migrant Health Assessment Centre (MHAC) for the United Kingdom TB Screening (UKTB) and Japan Pre-entry Tuberculosis Screening (JPETS) such as:
- receiving and explaining the registration process to applicants
- checking the applicant’s identity
- entering the biodata of the applicants in the appropriate platform
- taking photos using a webcam and loading the image to the appropriate platform; and,
- printing of medical forms, consent forms, and other necessary documents
- Perform such other duties as may be assigned.
Training Components and Learning Elements
The Intern will gain experience in working in an international multicultural environment, within the United Nations system.
- Gain experience in organization, management, and international cooperation activities.
- Gain a better understanding of IOM’s work, as an inter-governmental organization in the field of Migration, and work on formulating and editing institutional strategies, priorities and workplans.
- The Intern can also access online training courses at the disposal of all IOM staff.
- The Intern will have the possibility to interact with IOM staff within Headquarters and IOM Missions.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education
- Completing/completed a degree in Communications, Administration or related courses from an accredited academic institution
- Certificate in data entry is an advantage
Skills
- Typing speed of at least 60 words per minute
- High computer literacy in Windows and MS Office is mandatory
Languages
- Fluency in English and Tagalog is required.
IOM’s official languages are English, French and Spanish.
Proficiency of language(s) required will be specifically evaluated during the selection process, which may include written and/or oral assessments.
DEADLINE: December 16, 2025 (11:55 PM)
