Internship Climate Justice Center

CARE Nederland is looking for

An intern to work with CARE’s Climate Justice Center

(6 months: September 2025 – February 2026)

CARE Vision for Climate Justice

CARE International is a global confederation working together in over 100 countries to overcome poverty and social injustice. 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 people 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.

Main tasks for the CJC intern will be as follow:

1. Support Climate & Resilience Academy Learning Journeys:

• Onboarding of participants in online learning journeys, for example on CARE’s Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis approach, and ongoing support to the community
• Providing technical support during online live sessions in our learning journeys and other trainings
• Updating course materials in consultation with adaptation specialists and other experts

1. Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL):

• Support MEAL for Climate Adaptation and Resilience Programs in coordination with the CJC MEAL specialist, including validation of carbon footprint data and effectively communicating findings to support CARE’s global commitments for reducing the organisation’s greenhouse gas emissions. .
• Create engaging knowledge products: Learn to develop and share impactful knowledge products, such as case studies, impact reports and brief inspirational content, drawn from key evaluations, impact data and advocacy reports.

1. Contribute to technical support provided to projects and programs:

• Support the organization of Climate Change and Health, Climate change and Shelter trainings. The intern will support the climate adaptation technical team in this work with background research, contributing to some sections of the tools, content development and review, etc.

1. General

• Support production of materials, trainings outputs, communications availability in other official CARE languages (e.g. Spanish, French, Arabic)
• Work with the CJC Comms team on updates to the CARE Climate Change website and support the dissemination of CARE technical work

The intern will work under the supervision of the Climate Justice Training and Capacity Lead based in the Netherlands and will communicate with and work with other CARE colleagues 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, Programme Monitoring & Evaluation, Education or any other related areas

Essential:

• Currently enrolled in a Masters program at a Dutch university where an internship is part of the requirements. It’s expected that during your internship you will complete an assignment in fulfilment of your study requirements
• Excellent proficiency in English
• Residing in the Netherlands
• Exceptional organisational, analytical and writing skills
• Good eye for detail, collaborative, proactive, and creative
• Good understanding of main climate change issues,
• 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
• Data organization, summarization, analysis and presentation skills

Desired:

• Comfortable with cartographic software (eg QGIS) and image processing tools
• Experience in facilitation of online trainings and/or participatory meetings
• Experience with online learning systems such as Moodle, Curatr, Rise
• Proficiency in other languages – Spanish, French or Arabic are a plus

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 September with close contact and supervision from within the organisation.
• The duration will be 6 months with possibility to extend the internship – 5 days a week (to be discussed) and travel costs to the office will be reimbursed on top of that
• A workplace in the office in The Hague, with the possibility to work from home (50% of time)
• The internship reimbursement will be EUR 430 per month when interning full time
• 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 profile sought? Please send your application using the button on our website. The deadline to respond to this vacancy is 7 July 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 Justice Training  & Capacity Lead  (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 for which an internship is a requirement.

• As long as the vacancy is still visible, responding remains possible.

Acquisition in response to this advertisement is not appreciated