Climate Justice Intern

Organisatie

Cordaid is looking for an enthusiastic intern who can support us with learning how climate change is impacting our work. Are you looking for an interesting internship in a professional NGO, and feeling strongly about climate justice, then check out this opportunity!

About Cordaid

Cordaid is a Dutch development, humanitarian and peacebuilding organisation. Cordaid provides health care services, emergency relief, food security, education, and access to justice in the world’s most fragile and conflict-affected contexts, in which Cordaid strives to end poverty and exclusion. Climate change has been a cross-cutting topic for Cordaid’s work for many years.

Climate Justice

Climate change is not just an environmental issue but a central development challenge with disproportionate impacts on vulnerable groups, especially women, children, displaced people, and those in poverty. Climate change is an enormous threat multiplier that affects daily resilience, security and well-being and exacerbates conflicts and humanitarian crises that can deepen instability. In the fragile contexts where Cordaid is working, the effects of rising temperatures and extreme weather are already undermining progress and are heavily felt by the people who have least contributed to global warming. This is climate injustice, which cannot be ignored in our projects. Partners and Cordaid staff know that climate change plays an important role in almost every project, whether it is Health, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems, Security and Justice or Humanitarian Assistance, but we want to learn how to integrate approaches to make our projects more climate sensitive. For this reason, Cordaid experts from across the organisation are forming a Community of Practice.

Taken

Main activities and responsibilities of the internship:

  • Support the activities of the Cordaid Climate Justice Community of Practice.
  • Support a mapping of how climate affects the projects that Cordaid implements with partners.
  • The mapping will involve literature research, and data collection (interviews, focus group discussions, survey, etc.)
  • Contribute to the writing process and providing findings from Cordaid’s practice for the Positioning Papers for COP31 in Antalya, Turkey and COP32 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  • Assist in organising learning sessions.
  • Draft and formulate lessons and recommendations for improved climate-related programming by Cordaid.

Functie-eisen en profiel

Selection criteria / Qualifications and Experience:

  • Open to students enrolled in a Master's degree throughout the entirety of the internship (preferably in relevant fields of international relations, development studies, climate, environment, sustainability, etc.);
  • Candidates must be able to work in the EU and meet the administrative requirements for working in the Netherlands (by obtaining a BSN number);
  • Professional competence in English and French is essential;
  • Familiarity and strong affinity with issues related to sustainability, environment and climate;
  • Experience with quantitative and qualitative research (interviews, data collection and analysis);
  • Excellent writing and analytical skills;
  • Strong ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously;
  • Ability to work in a small, multicultural team.

Ons aanbod

What we offer

  • A responsible position as intern in a professional organisation;
  • A role where taking initiative is encouraged;
  • Gain experience in applied research and translating results into recommendations;
  • Gain working experience in a global organisation;
  • Work with a supportive, goal-oriented team;
  • An internship allowance based on a 36 -hour workweek;
  • Hybrid working at the office policy (at least 50%);
  • Within Cordaid, the intern will be supervised by the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) advisor and work with the Climate Justice Community of Practice.

Informeren en solliciteren

More information

For information on the content of the advertised internship, you can contact Koen Faber (kfa@cordaid.org) and Sabina Atzei (sat@cordaid.org).

For more information about Cordaid, please visit our website: www.cordaid.org.

How to apply?

Applications including a cover letter and CV can be uploaded through our website.

Your application must be received at the latest by 11 September 2026.