Intern Climate & Resilience Academy

Join the CARE CJC and members of the team to contribute to CJC’s goal to build knowledge and strengthen the capacity of humanitarian and development practitioners on climate justice and resilience.

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 onCARE’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. The Academy offers 4 types of content: online learning journeys, free self-paced online courses, free trainer packs, and customised trainings.

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 learning journeys, maintenance of our self-paced courses and organizing online events for the Academy’s growing 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.
Specific trainings that you will support on are:

• our flagship online learning journey on Climate Advocacy
• the implementation of a new online learning journey on Ecosystem based Adaptation for CARE country staff and local partners in Ecuador, Peru, Laos and Vietnam
• online Training of Trainers on the Toolkit for Youth on Adaptation and Leadership (pending funding approval)

Your activities could include, but are not limited to, contributing to:

• Onboarding of participants in learning journeys and ongoing support to the community during our learning journeys
• Providing technical support during online live sessions in our learning journeys
• Updating course materials in consultation with adaptation specialists and other experts
• Maintaining, updating and developing our self-paced courses on our online learning platform Moodle
• Ensuring our courses are available in official CARE languages besides English (e.g. French and Spanish)
• 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.)

You will work under the supervision of the Climate Learning Officer and the Academy Coordinator, based at CARE Nederland, and will communicate and work 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. 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
• Excellent proficiency in English and Spanish or French
• Residing in the Netherlands
• Passionate about climate change adaptation, climate justice and gender justice
• High interest in adult learning, (online) training design and knowledge management
• Comfortable with, and able to quickly learn new technologies
• Exceptional 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, Curatr, Rise
• 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 opportunity starting 1 March for the duration of 6 months with with possibility to extend – 4 to 5 days a week (to be discussed)
• A workplace in the office in The Hague, with also the possibility to work from home (50% of time)
• The internship reimbursement will be EUR 330 per month when interning full time and travel costs to the office will be reimbursed per company policy
• CARE will provide you with a laptop (on loan) for the duration of your internship
• CARE Nederland will provide you with a laptop (on loan) for the duration of your internship.
• The intern will have a dedicated supervisor from CARE Nederland and they’ll have bilateral meetings together to discuss progress etc.

Ready to apply?

Are you interested in this internship and do you meet the profiles sought? Please send your application using the button below. The deadline to respond to this vacancy is 1 December 2024.

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, CARE Climate & Resilience Coordinator (kaekebeke@carenederland.org)

• For this position it’s important that you have a residency in The Netherlands and that you’re enrolled in a Masters degree at a Dutch University.
• As long as the vacancy is still visible, responding remains possible.

Acquisition in response to this advertisement is not appreciated