Gender Team Intern

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KIT Royal Tropical Institute

Remote (local)
  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy, Admin, Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Internship
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Research
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: Not specified
  • Remuneration: €550 EUR / monthly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 15/11/2023
  • Location: Netherlands
Economic justice Gender training Leadership Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role
As gender team intern, you will work with colleagues in KIT’s Gender Team on a variety of projects. Your main role will be to support the online and face-to-face modules of the programme: Feminist Edge – Professional Development for Gender Trainers. During off-peak periods of the programme (Module 2), you will also support other projects in the area of women’s rights, empowerment and leadership, and/or in the area of gender, agriculture and environment. This position is ideal for a Master’s student looking for an opportunity to gain relevant working experience in a professional working environment on gender equality and international development.

Tasks and responsibilities

  1. Coordination, planning and administrative support to Feminist Edge, including: support for organizing core training materials, updating the e-learning platform with learning materials.
  2. Maintaining the Feminist Edge’s internal and external communications including: communications with programme participants, managing the Feminist Edge email account.
  3. Technical support of virtual (Zoom) and face-to-face training sessions of the Feminist Edge programme, i.e. supporting the delivery of trainings sessions.
  4. Support the gender team in other projects on women’s rights, empowerment and leadership, and/or on gender, agriculture and environment (e.g. support to research, qualitative data analysis, report writing and developing knowledge products, knowledge dissemination)
  5. Contribute to gender team learning and knowledge development

Requirements 

  1. You are in the final years of your study (Master) in social sciences, for example anthropology, human geography, political sciences, development studies – with a specialisation in gender studies.
  2. Strong interest in the gender dimensions of development, particularly in gender equality, feminist knowledge production, women and girls’ empowerment, social justice, human rights and transformative change.
  3. Experience in the coordination, planning and logistics. Experience with organizing training sessions or workshops is a strong asset.
  4. Team player with excellent listening, communications and problem solving skills.
  5. Capacity to work within a diverse multicultural team.
  6. Studying at a Dutch institute and in the possession of a relevant visa is required.
  7. Fluency in English. Working knowledge of French, Spanish and/or Arabic is an advantage.

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