United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Programme Management Intern Jobs in Kenya

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Programme Management Intern Jobs in Kenya


The internship is UNPAID, and interns work five days per week (full time - 34 hours). The Global Maritime Crime Programme was established in 2010 in response to United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for a concerted international response to address piracy off the Horn of Africa.

The programme then known as the Counter Piracy Programme played a central role in the establishment of a regional 'piracy prosecution model'. This involved providing comprehensive criminal justice support to states in the Indian Ocean region, which received suspected pirates for prosecution.

Since then the Counter Piracy Programme has expanded both thematically and geographically into the Global Maritime Crime Programme covering a much wider spectrum of maritime crime within 6 ocean spaces globally. The Indian Ocean West team of the Global Maritime Crime Programme is based in the Regional Office for Eastern Africa in Nairobi.

They have extensive experience and knowledge in supporting states in the region in the fight against maritime crime and have a programming presence in the following countries in the East African Region: Angola, Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia Seychelles, South Africa and Tanzania.

The programme is committed to support Member States, through its mandate, to develop cooperation both at a regional and international level and build law enforcement capacity among member states to counter serious organized crime within the maritime domain. In terms of our lines of activity, we traditionally offer support to countries to tackle transnational maritime crime throughout the entire criminal justice chain. This involves technical, material, and infrastructural support to law enforcement, prosecution, and detention.

All interventions have a strong regional cooperation emphasis and under the mandate of its Indian Ocean Forum on Maritime Crime (IOFMC), it provides a strong coordination and delivery mechanism, covering thematic areas for intervention focusing primarily, but not limited to, Maritime Drug Trafficking, Fisheries Crime and Smuggling of Somali Charcoal.

This internship is located in the GMCP Indian Ocean West (IOW). The Intern reports to the Programme Officer. The intern will support the team in the administration and programme management support.

Tasks will include: