Internship Climate Adaptation

Goede Doelen Nederland; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 4,400 - 5,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Laptop provided

EUR 430 monthly stipend

Hybrid work model (50% office/remote)

Job summary

CARE International is seeking an intern to support the Climate Justice team in The Hague. The role focuses on assisting with training design, online delivery, and knowledge management to advance climate justice initiatives.

You will work with a global team, contribute to MEAL processes, and help prepare content for platforms and events. The internship includes a monthly stipend and a laptop during the placement.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in a Masters program at a Dutch university.
• Excellent proficiency in English.
• Strong organisational, analytical and writing skills.
• Collaborative, proactive and creative.
• Able to work independently with limited supervision.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to CARE Climate Justice training design and delivery.
• Support MEAL data collection, validation and reporting related to climate justice work.
• Capitalize and disseminate CARE’s climate adaptation work with the Comms team.

Skills

English proficiency

Organisational skills

Analytical skills

Writing skills

Collaborative

Education

Masters student (Dutch university)

Tools

QGIS

Image processing tools

Job description

CARE International is a global confederation working together in over 100 countries to overcome poverty and social justice. Climate Justice is one of the 6 impact areas of CARE’s 2030 vision. For CARE, climate justice means a future where the poorest and most marginalized have improved their wellbeing significantly. Where women and men can enjoy their human rights due to increased resilience to climate change, increased equality and a global temperature rise that is limited to 1.5°C.CARE’s global goal for Climate Justice is to strengthen the resilience and adaptive capacities of 25 million poor and marginalized people, particularly women and girls to the effects of climate change by 2030. To reach this goal, CARE is building on 20 years of experience.

• Contribute to technical support provided to CARE projects and programs: desk research on topics related to the CJC's current focus assignments such as Climate and Conflict nexus, Anticipatory Action, Ecosystem-based Adaptation, Nature-based Solutions, Green Economy, developing supporting materials and development of tools, and assignments related to climate justice strategic planning and projects for specific country contexts. Other tasks could be to develop CARE Climate Justice Onboarding Training, to support the development of catalogue of EbA practices and catalogue of green VSLA practices , etc.
• Support the design and delivery of Climate Justice training courses:
• for example, support the development and delivery of (online) trainings or coaching sessions, and self-paced courses offered through the Academy, such as new courses on Clean Energy or Greening Anticipatory Action. The intern may also work to ensure that training materials are available in other official CARE languages (Arabic, French and/or Spanish)

Depending on the intern’s strengths and areas of technical interest, additional tasks can be supported and assigned, including:

• Support to CARE-wide Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) on climate justice, including data collection and verification, validation, interrogation and reporting, supporting investigation of learning questions and research design, gaining an understanding of CARE’s global indicators and reporting system and liaising with colleagues regarding data and improvements in data management
• Capitalization and dissemination of CARE’s climate adaptation work: you will work closely with the Comms team to share updated content on climate change adaptation on the CJC website and support the dissemination of CARE technical work on external relevant platforms and events.
• Enrolled in a Masters program at a Dutch university where an internship is part of the requirements
• Excellent proficiency in English
• Exceptional organisational, analytical and writing skills, good eye for detail, collaborative, proactive, and creative
• Passionate about climate change adaptation, climate justice, gender justice and conflict
• High interest in adult learning, (online) training design and knowledge management
• Comfortable with, and able to quickly learn new technologies
• Ability to work with a diverse range of technical colleagues (remotely) and to work independently with limited supervision
• Open-minded and flexible attitude towards responsibilities and ad-hoc requests for support
• Good understanding of main climate change issues

Desired / considered a plus:

• Comfortable with cartographic software (eg QGIS) and image processing tools
• Experience in facilitation of online trainings and/or participatory meetings
• Experience with online learning systems such as Moodle, Rise
• Spanish, French or Arabic proficiencies are considered a plus
• The CJC team is a global and dynamic team that gives you insight into CARE’s development and humanitarian work worldwide, and provides you with a great opportunity to build a network within the climate space
• Internship starting 15 January 2027 for 5-6 months with possibility to extend (as internship) – 4 to 5 days a week (to be agreed upon)
• A committed supervisor who together with you, will draft an intern plan.
• A workplace in the office in the Hague (near Laan van NOI), with the possibility to work from home (50% of time).
• The reimbursement will be EUR 430 per month when interning full time (38 hours p/w) + travel costs to the office will be reimbursed
• CARE will provide you with a laptop (on loan) for the duration of your internship

29 November 2027