The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a multilateral financial mechanism created in 1991 to provide grant and concessional funds to recipient countries for projects and programs that address biodiversity loss, climate change mitigation and adaptation, degradation of international waters, land and forests, ozone depletion, elimination or reduction of persistent organic pollutants and mercury, all within the framework of sustainable development.

The GEF unites 186 countries in partnership with international institutions, civil society organizations (CSOs), and the private sector to address global environmental issues while supporting national sustainable development initiatives. An independently operating financial organization, GEF is the designated financial mechanism for five international environmental conventions: the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Minamata Convention on Mercury. GEF is also a designated financial mechanism of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.

In the years since its establishment, the GEF has funded over 4,500 projects in 170 countries, and many thousands more through the GEF Small Grants Program, providing $20.5 billion in grants that leveraged $112 billion in co-financing. The GEF Secretariat, construed for administrative purposes as a Vice-Presidential Unit (VPU) within the World Bank, has approximately 100 professional and administrative, and client support staff.

The GEF Council recently approved a new strategy for Knowledge Management and Learning (KM&L) that will enable the GEF to pursue three main objectives:

• Embed cutting-edge knowledge into investments and generate public goods in line with GEF mandate and enhance the role of knowledge management in projects and programs.
• Increase knowledge flows through platforms through partnership and communities of practice; and
• Create and enable the environment for learning and capacity building for greater exchange of knowledge and collaboration across the partnership.

The GEF Secretariat is seeking to recruit a highly motivated postgraduate for a 6-months internship to support implementation of the Strategy. The successful candidate will work directly with the KM&L team and report to the Manager of the Integration and Knowledge Management Division.

Duties and Responsibilities

The intern will have an opportunity to interact with a range of GEF Secretariat staff, and particularly those concerned with information technology and its impacts at different levels. He / She will focus specifically on the following tasks:

• Coordinate training sessions for GEFSEC on the use Microsoft Teams Channels, SharePoint Files and other collaboration tools.
• Monitor the use of Collaboration tools such as MS Teams and SharePoint and produce periodic reports to identify usage gaps.
• Work with the Senior KM Specialist to develop a plan to incentivize the use of Collaboration tools in GEFSEC.
• Participate in the migration of legacy SharePoint Files to the new WBG platform.
• Develop a profile of networking needs for development of the GEF knowledge and collaboration platform.
• Assist with the development of knowledge sharing strategies and tools, including categories and types of knowledge products, their sources of origin, target audience and dissemination channels.
• Other ad-hoc activities derived from the KM&L program in the GEF, including those related to Information Technology.