ADVOCACY (summer) internship – policy influencing team

Type:

Internships

Description

(4/6 months, 32 hrs/week, based in Utrecht)
Are you passionate about contributing to change that matters and do you want to support advocacy work at Solidaridad? We offer you a challenging internship in an inspiring international setting with the opportunity to learn and make a difference in the world.

Job description
Solidaridad is a global civil society organization working on fostering solutions for sustainable production practices across various supply chains. Our mission is to bring together supply chain players and engage them with innovative solutions to improve production, thus ensuring the transition to a sustainable and inclusive economy that maximizes benefit for all. Solidaridad is an international network organization consisting of eight Regional Expertise Centers (RECs) located around the world (Asia, Southern Africa, East and Central Africa, West Africa, South America, Central America, North America and Europe), each with their own specific expertise and focus.

This internship is geared towards conducting research and analyzing the results that will serve as the basis for the next edition of the Sustainable Cotton Ranking. Depending on the duration of the internship, the intern will also have the opportunity to support the project team with other tasks related to the publication of the Sustainable Cotton Ranking. If desired, the position will also focus on a learning or research plan developed together with the intern and in close cooperation with the associated Knowledge Institute.

Tasks

• Support the project with research on (75) companies performance on sustainable cotton sourcing (based on publicly available information);
• Support the project team with the first draft analysis (quantitative and qualitative) of the results of the research;
• Support the project team with the first draft analysis of trends since the last publication;
• Support the project team with specific research topics (desk research);
• Support the project team with the development of the communications strategy and plan;
• Support the project team with stakeholder engagement events (online);
• Support the project team with the monitoring framework for the project;.
• Be part of the Policy Influencing team.

Learning objectives

• To learn about evidence-based advocacy and policy influencing work in a civil society organization;
• To learn about the cotton (and textiles) sectors;
• To learn about working in coalition with other civil society organization;
• To learn to work across functions (policy influencing, corporate engagement, communications, knowledge management and learning) in an organization;
• To learn about project management;
• Possibility to propose a specific research assignment directly relevant to the study programme the intern is enrolled in.

Period: 4 to 6 months (min 24 – max 32 hours per week)

Start date: between June and September 2022

Profile

You are inspired by the job and responsibilities as described above, and you recognize yourself in the following:

• Following a Bachelor or Master’s degree in development studies, international relations, or business related at a Dutch University;
• Affinity with the vision and mission of Solidaridad;
• Skills in processing information and summarizing it in short papers;
• Excellent analytical and writing skills;
• Service-oriented, proactive and team player;
• Pragmatic, flexible and autonomous;
• Ability to connect and work with people from all backgrounds and cultures;
• Professional fluency in English;
• Able to meet deadlines;
• Allowed to work in the Netherlands.

Application Procedure

Our offer

• Support in the development of your learning or research plan;
• Onboarding, support and coaching to enable you to learn;
• A unique and challenging internship within an inspiring and international setting;
• A 4 to 6-month contract, internship compensation, and reimbursement of travel costs;
• A working space in our inspiring office in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• Travel required: primarily Solidaridad office, incidental travel to external meetings in NL. No international travel.

Next steps
Do you recognize yourself in the candidate profile? Then please send your one-page motivation letter and two-page resume in English to hr-europe@solidaridadnetwork.org, stating “Application: Advocacy Intern” in the subject header. Deadline 30 April 2022.

If you already have ideas about what you would like to learn or research during your internship at Solidaridad Europe, please indicate this in your motivation letter. Also indicate clearly when you are able to start.

Questions can be addressed to hr-europe@solidaridadnetwork.org. No agencies please.

Any personal data submitted in an application is treated confidentially and processed for the sole purpose of filling a vacancy, and compliant to the GDPR directive. After the selection process has been completed (upon date of filled vacancy), all personal data of applicants who have not been selected will be destroyed immediately, unless we have your explicit approval to store your personal data for a period of maximum a year.

Background
Solidaridad envisions a world in which all we produce and all we consume can sustain us, while respecting the planet, each other and the next generations. We bring together supply chain actors and engage them in innovative solutions to improve production, ensuring the transition to a sustainable and inclusive economy that maximizes the benefit for all.

Solidaridad is an international network organization consisting of eight regional expertise centers located around the world (Asia, South America, Southern Africa, East and Central Africa, West Africa, Central America, North America and Europe), each with their own specific expertise and focus. Globally, Solidaridad works across 13 commodities.

Solidaridad Europe focuses on market development, policy influencing, communications and donor relations. We seek to inspire the private sector, governments, civil society organizations and consumers in Europe to contribute to sustainable economic development.

For more information please refer to our website: http://www.solidaridadnetwork.org.

Preference for bachelor or master student:

No preference

Starts:

to be determined

Length:

4- 6 months

Occupation:

Fulltime

Language:

English

Compensation:

paid

Apply Before:

30/04/2022