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Duty station: UNHCR Thailand Multi-country Office, Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: From 1 September 2025 to 31 October 2025 (Tentative)
Direct Supervisor: External Relations Officer
Background information/Organizational Context
UNHCR is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. Every year, millions of men, women and children are forced to flee their homes to escape conflict and persecution. We operate in over 125 countries, using our expertise to protect and care for millions.
UNHCR’s operations in Asia and the Pacific encompass two of the world’s largest forced displacement crises, involving large numbers of children without access to quality education, deep poverty, significant statelessness and an ever-present threat of gender-based violence. Access to territory, asylum, and protection remain challenges across the region, where only 20 of the 45 countries and territories have acceded to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and only three States are party to both statelessness conventions. The total number of refugees, people in refugee-like situations, stateless persons, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), returnees (both refugees and IDPs) and others of concern to UNHCR in Asia and the Pacific by mid-2023 stood at 14.3 million.
UNHCR Thailand is a Multi-Country Operation covering Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. Thailand is neither party to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol nor to the Statelessness Conventions; there is no formal legal framework for the protection of refugees and asylum seekers. However, Thailand hosts about 91,000 refugees from Myanmar at the border, with about 5,000 refugees and asylum seekers living in urban areas and 554, 000 stateless persons. UNHCR Multi-Country Operation in Thailand main challenge is to maintain and expand the asylum and protection space in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam while seeking durable solutions.
2025 marks 50 years of partnership between UNHCR and the Ministry of Interior’s Operational Centre for Displaced Persons (OCDP) and to commemorate this milestone, a one-week visual exhibition will be organized for public viewing. A centre focus of the exhibition will be a series of a large archival collection of mainly photographs that document UNHCR Thailand’s history. In this regard, the UNHCR Thailand multi-country office in Bangkok, Thailand is looking for an Event and Archives Coordination Intern. This internship is a unique opportunity to gain experience in information management within an international organization. The intern will be based in the Thailand Multi-country Office in Bangkok and directly report to the External Relations Officer.
The intern will support coordinating and organizing the exhibition at BACC while curating the archival photographs that documents the 50 year history. Working on site in Bangkok, the intern will select, arrange, and caption images in line with accepted archival standards, ensuring the collection is exhibition ready. With the nature of its work, this internship is not suitable for a remote-working arrangement.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Main duties will include:
- Review, arrange and describe the archival photo collection
- Coordinate logistics for the exhibition
- Assist with guest management and participants
- Support with the promotional activities
- Review and support edit archival audiovisual material
- Perform any other tasks as assigned by supervisor, including supporting other units as requested.
Qualifications and Experience:
- The candidate must be a recent graduate (those persons who completed their studies within one year of applying) or current student in a graduate/undergraduate school programme from a university or higher education facility accredited by UNESCO. The candidate must have completed at least two years of undergraduate studies in a field of Records and Achieves Management, Information Management, History or relevant of interest to the work of the Organization.
- Excellent knowledge of English and Thai (reading and writing).
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