The Partnerships Intern joins the Office of the Regional Director (ORD) in Bangkok, Thailand. The ORD provides strategic leadership and coordination for UNOPS offices across the Asia Region, focusing on project implementation in peacebuilding, humanitarian, and development sectors. Within this framework, the intern supports the region’s strategic positioning by strengthening opportunity mapping, maintaining engagement dashboards, and conducting thematic research on priorities like climate resilience and infrastructure. The role is vital for providing data-driven insights and briefing materials that support senior leadership decision-making.
At UNOPS, interns join our teams as equal members and are offered a good mix of support work and independent assignments with substantial responsibility.
Through hands-on experience, the intern will develop practical skills that will enhance their future career prospects. The intern will have access to the UNOPS Learning Zone Platform for skill development and will also have the opportunity to contribute innovative solutions to partnership development, leveraging their academic background.
Under the direct supervision of the Senior Programme Manager and Regional Coordinators, the intern’s role is to support activities aimed at increasing project management capacity.
Under the overall guidance of the Supervisor, the intern will undertake the duties below, as relevant and applicable based on a workplan agreed at the start of the assignment.
1.Data and Engagement Analytics (dashboards)
● Support the development and refinement of ORD-facing tools and dashboards relating to partnerships and outreach across Asia and the Pacific, drawing on existing corporate systems (including Opportunity+) and inputs from country and multi-country offices.
● Compile and consolidate inputs from programme teams and offices to help identify trends,emerging opportunities, gaps, and areas for strategic engagement or investment (for ORD awareness and follow-up, not performance oversight).
● Generate and visualize data in ways that support leadership decision-making and contribute to partnerships/business development planning (e.g., pipeline snapshots, partner views, thematic views, periodic roll-ups).
● Support data quality checks, consistency of tagging/stage logic, and clear presentation of information across internal products and partnership/outreach communication tools (dashboard views, presentations, brief decks, fact sheets, short updates). Thematic Research and Partner/Donor Intelligence
● Conduct desk research on priority thematic areas relevant to UNOPS engagement in Asia and the Pacific (e.g., energy transition, climate resilience, sustainability, infrastructure, procurement), to inform positioning and outreach.
● Support the development and maintenance of concise partner intelligence briefs (1–2 pagers / slide snapshots), including partner priorities, entry points, key contacts, and recommended follow-up actions, in coordination with programme teams and relevant corporate counterparts.
● Support mapping of donor/partner priorities and tracking of funding trends relevant to UNOPS service lines and regional priorities; share targeted updates with country/multi-country offices as agreed by the Supervisor.
● Contribute to opportunity scanning by compiling basic opportunity intelligence (partner needs, fit with UNOPS value proposition, indicative timelines and next steps) to support programme/office follow-up. Strategic Planning and Coordination
● Contribute inputs (as assigned) to regional partnership/outreach planning products, including engagement plans, internal briefings, and leadership notes.
● Coordinate with technical leads, programme teams, and partnerships focal points in country/multi-country offices to align research outputs and dashboard insights with programme and resource mobilization needs.
● Support preparation of background materials for senior leadership engagements (briefing notes, meeting packs, talking points support), ensuring information is accurate and aligned with inputs from relevant colleagues.
● Maintain a light-touch follow-up/action log for priority opportunities and engagements (who/what/when/next step), and a simple calendar/alert list for key milestones (concept notes, EOIs, proposal windows, events), consolidating information shared by programme teams and offices.
2.Tracking corporate initiatives & keeping the office informed (core)
● Track corporate communications and partnership-related initiatives, guidance updates, and reporting requirements, and flag implications for APR, including any actions needed to support roll-out or engagement at regional and country levels.
● Maintain a simple corporate initiatives tracker (what changed, what is due, who needs to know, and who needs to act) and draft short internal updates for the Supervisor/ORD to support timely coordination across the region.
3.Other
● Perform other duties as assigned by the Supervisor to support ORD partnership development, outreach, and internal coordination priorities.
