Internship Climate Change Adaptation

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

Internship Responsibilities and Activities

Join the CARE CJC and members of the team to contribute to CJC’s goal to lead and coordinate the integration of climate justice and resilience across CARE’s development and humanitarian work.

CJC Climate Change Adaptation Intern

Main tasks for the CCA intern will be as follow:

• Support the organization of regular meetings of Climate Justice Communities of Practices: The intern will support the facilitation of CARE CJ COPs by for example, proposing agenda items of the different meetings, supporting the facilitation of the meetings, contributing to implementation of the action points decided and following up with participants between meetings.

• Contribute to technical support provided to projects and programs: The intern will work together with the Program Quality Lead and Adaptation Specialist in supporting COs and specific CARE projects to integrate climate change into their project. For example, during the period of the internship, some of the main tasks will be to support the finalization of the Climate Resilience Marker, to develop CARE Climate Justice Onboarding Training, developing new project proposals, etc. The intern will support the climate adaptation program team in this work with background research, contributing to some sections of the tools, formatting, etc.

• Support the design and delivery of Climate Justice training courses: The intern will work with the Adaptation Program Specialist and other team members on the development and delivery of training such as the online learning journey on Ecosystem Based Adaptation among others. You will also work to ensure that courses are available in other official CARE languages (Spanish and/or French).

• Capitalization and dissemination of CARE’s adaptation work: The CJC Comms team oversees regularly updating the CARE Climate Change website with the most recent global program activities related to climate change and resilience. The intern will work closely with Comms team to share the contents produced or gathered on CCA and will also support the dissemination of CARE technical work on external relevant platforms and events.

The intern will work under the supervision of the CJC Program Quality Lead based in France and Adaptation Specialist based in CARE Germany, and will communicate and work with CARE office staff where relevant.

What do you bring to the table?

Education & Qualifications: Masters students in the fields of Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction, Geography, Environment, International Development Studies, Anthropology, or any other related areas

• Enrolled in a Masters program at a Dutch university
• Excellent proficiency in English and Spanish or French
• Residing in the Netherlands
• Exceptional organisational, analytical and writing skills
• Good eye for detail, collaborative, proactive, and creative
• 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
• 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:

• Comfortable with cartographic software (eg QGIS) and image processing tools
• 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. 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 mid-March 2025 for a duration of 6 months – for 4-5 days a week (to be discussed)
• A workplace in the office in The Hague, with the possibility to work from home (50% of time)
• The internship reimbursement will be EUR 330 per month when interning full time, travel costs to the office will be reimbursed on top of that as per company policy
• CARE will provide you with a laptop (on loan) for the duration of your internship
• You will be appointed to a dedicated supervisor from CARE and you’ll have bilateral meetings together to discuss progress etc

Ready to apply?

Are you interested in this internship and do you meet the profile sought? Please send your application using the button below. The deadline to respond to this vacancy is January 6th 2025.

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 Academy 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.

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