Internship Climate Justice Center Academy
carenederland
- Employment type
- Tijdelijk
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- adp
CARE Climate Justice Center – hosted by CARE Nederland - is looking for an intern to work with CARE’s Climate & Resilience Academy (4-5 days a week) Are you interested in interning for the Climate Justice Center hosted by CARE Nederland (The Hague) for 4-5 days a week, with the possibility to work from home (50/50) for 5-6 months? CARE Vision for Climate Justice 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. The Climate Justice Center The CARE Climate Justice Center (CJC), hosted by CARE Nederland, is CARE International’s global team working on climate justice. The CJC’s main goal is to coordinate and enable the integration of climate justice and resilience across CARE’s development and humanitarian work. We achieve this by sharing tools and fostering knowledge exchange between our 100+ global offices and local partners, validating and analysing internal impact data on climate justice, facilitating learning through the CARE Climate & Resilience Academy, and undertaking and supporting advocacy efforts at global, regional and national level. The CARE Climate & Resilience Academy offers learning resources for CARE staff and external partners and builds on CARE’s 20+ years of experience in resilience, community-based adaptation, climate advocacy, and our own efforts to become a climate-smart organization. The Academy aims to give humanitarian and development practitioners the necessary knowledge to understand climate change and provide them with skills and tools so that they are better able to address climate change in their programs and tackle its causes and consequences. Internship
Responsibilities
and Activities Join us to contribute to CJC’s goal to build knowledge and strengthen the capacity of humanitarian and development practitioners on climate justice and resilience. CARE Climate & Resilience Academy Intern This internship will allow you to develop knowledge on and skills in creating learning experiences on climate action, through instructional design, the implementation of our online learning journeys and trainings, maintenance of our self-paced courses and organizing online events for the Academy’s alumni community. You will become familiar with CARE's tools and approaches on climate justice and resilience, from a wide range of perspectives including programming, advocacy, policies and monitoring, evaluation and learning. Your activities could include, but are not limited to, contributing to: • Updating and developing training materials including self-paced courses on our online learning platform Moodle, in consultation with adaptation specialists and other experts • Ensuring our courses are available in official CARE languages besides English (e.g. French and Spanish) • Onboarding of participants in online learning journeys and ongoing support to the community • Providing technical support during online live training sessions • Organizing online networking events for our Alumni community and engaging with external organizations working in the climate space • Supporting communication needs for the Academy when necessary (e.g. input to internal newsletters, social media posts, etc.) Specific projects that you will support during this internship: • Our upcoming online learning journey on Influencing for the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance in collaboration with Prosper Global • A new self-paced course series on the Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian and Development Organizations on our Moodle platform • New course material on Clean Energy, CARE’s Climate Resilience Marker, and more • Training on Climate Leadership, Gender-Responsive Advocacy and Storytelling for Policy Influence for women and youth CSO members in Northern Thailand You will receive supervision from the Climate Justice Training & Capacity Lead, based at CARE Nederland, and will communicate and work closely with CARE technical experts at other offices where relevant. The final activities and tasks will depend on your (academic) background and experience as well as your own interests and input, and the projects and trainings, the Academy is involved in. The CJC is a small team that consists of around 15 team members based in different countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. What do you bring to the table? Education &
Qualifications
Bachelor or Master students in the fields of Education (Design), International Development Studies, Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction, Environment, Anthropology, Sociology, or another area of studies with a related focus. Essential for all intern positions: • Currently enrolled in a Masters program at a Dutch university where an internship is part of the requirements • Excellent proficiency in English • Passionate about climate change adaptation, climate justice and gender justice • Experience and or/high interest in adult learning, (online) training design and knowledge management • Comfortable with, interested and able to quickly learn new technologies • Exceptional communication, organisational, analytical and writing skills • Good eye for detail, collaborative, proactive, and creative • 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 Desired for all interns: • Good understanding of main climate change issues • Experience in facilitation of online trainings and/or participatory meetings • Experience with online learning systems such as Moodle, Rise and H5Ps • Proficiency in other languages (pref. Spanish, French, Arabic) CARE maintains a zero tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse and child abuse and takes all concerns and complaints about sexual exploitation and abuse and child abuse involving CARE staff and related personnel seriously. What does CARE Nederland offer? • 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 (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 Ready to apply? Are you interested in this internship and do you meet the profiles sought? Please send your application using the button on our website. The deadline to respond to this vacancy is 29 November 2027, but we will review applications on a rolling basis and may invite selected candidates for a first interview before the deadline has passed. The selected candidate will engage in an internship contract with CARE Nederland in which the guidance by both CARE as well as the University will be detailed. For more information, please contact Diana Kaekebeke, Climate Justice Training & Capacity Lead (kaekebeke@carenederland.org) • For this position it’s a requirement that you have a residency in The Netherlands and that this internship is a requirement of your Masters degree at a University. • As long as the vacancy is still visible, responding remains possible. Acquisition in response to this advertisement is not appreciated