Internship - HR Services

Internship - HR Services - (TAL-MTHR20250227-002)

Organization: MTHR-HR Services

Primary Location: Austria-Vienna-Vienna-IAEA Headquarters

Job Posting: 2025-02-28, 7:40:14 AM

Closing Date: 2025-03-12, 5:59:00 PM

Duration in Months: 12

Contract Type: Interns

Full Competitive Recruitment: No

**Duration**

12 months

**Internships**

The IAEA accepts a limited number of interns each year. The internships are awarded to persons studying towards a university degree or who have recently received a degree (see Internship web pages for further details).

The purpose of the programme is:

- To provide interns with the opportunity to gain practical work experience in line with their studies or interests, and expose them to the work of the IAEA and the United Nations as a whole;
- To benefit the IAEA's programmes through the assistance of qualified students specialized in various professional fields.
- The duration of an internship is normally not less than three months and not more than one year.

**Organizational Setting**

The Division of Human Resources (MTHR), within the Department of Management, plans, acquires and manages human resources to effectively implement the IAEA programmes. It thus delivers the full spectrum of human resource services, including HR organizational development and planning, talent acquisition and development, performance management, and administration of compensation and benefits. The Division serves a multicultural workforce of approximately 2300 people from diverse scientific, technical, managerial and professional disciplines.

The HR Service Section (HSS) provides the Agency's staff and personnel with HR services and advice in the areas of administration of benefits and entitlements, administration of contracts and contract extensions, and on-boarding/off-boarding of staff.

**Main Purpose**

Interns will receive an opportunity to gain practical work experience in line with their studies or interests and expose themselves to the work of the IAEA and the United Nations as a whole.

We also look forward to having the support of qualified and enthusiastic students specialized in related professional fields (HR, Business Administration, Social Sciences, and/or international relations).

**Functions / Key Results Expected**
- Meeting the clients and providing them with the guidance on respective focal points.
- Respond to requests for guidance and questions on the respective HR areas.
- Contribute support the client facing help desk and administrative tasks such as document production and collection of training data, as requested.
- Conduct background research on HR matters involving academic research papers, private and public sector best practices, other international organizations' policies and guidelines as needed.
- Support the development of promotional and outreach materials.
- Coordinate activities and events that strengthen awareness and knowledge on the various HR areas.
- Prepare and edit drafts of HR reports, guidelines, briefing notes, presentation, and similar documents such as internal communication web sites with guidance by the respective HR leads.
- Analyse and report HR data and Key Performance Indicators as required.
- Support other HR activities as and when assigned.

**Qualifications and Experience**
- University degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Social Sciences, International Relations, information technology or a related field.
- Experience in drafting documents and reports in English.
- Knowledge of human resources-related work in international organizations or client-service skills are highly desirable.
- Proficiency with Windows, MS Office, in particular PowerPoint, Excel, and Ms Teams.

**Applicant Eligibility**
- Good written and spoken English essential; fluency in any other IAEA official language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish or Russian) an asset.