CARE Climate Justice Center – hosted by CARE Nederland – is looking for
An intern to work with CARE’s Climate Justice Center on Climate Change Technical Support (4-5 days a week)
Are you interested to interning for the Climate Justice Center hosted by CARE Nederland (The Hague) for 4-5 days a week, with the possibility to work from home (50/50) for 5-6 months?
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.
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 on technical support will be as follow:
- Contribute to technical support provided to CARE projects and programs: desk research on topics related to the CJC’s current focus assignments such as Climate and Conflict nexus, Anticipatory Action, Climate resilience in Humanitarian contexts, developing supporting materials and development of tools, and assignments related to climate justice strategic planning for specific country contexts. Other tasks could be to develop supporting materials for CARE’s Climate Resilience Marker, to develop CARE Climate Justice Onboarding Training, to support proposals on the integration of climate resilience in humanitarian programming, etc.
- Support the design and delivery of Climate Justice training courses:
for example, support the development and delivery of (online) trainings or coaching sessions, and self-paced courses offered through the Academy, such as new courses on Clean Energy or Greening Anticipatory Action. The intern may also work to ensure that training materials are available in other official CARE languages (Arabic, French and/or Spanish)
Depending on the intern’s strengths and areas of technical interest, additional tasks can be supported and assigned, including:
- Support to CARE-wide Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) on climate justice, including data collection and verification, validation, interrogation and reporting, supporting investigation of learning questions and research design, gaining an understanding of CARE’s global indicators and reporting system and liaising with colleagues regarding data and improvements in data management
- Capitalization and dissemination of CARE’s climate adaptation work: you will work closely with the Comms team to share updated content on climate change adaptation on the CJC website and support the dissemination of CARE technical work on external relevant platforms and events.
The intern will receive supervision of a senior CJC team member, and will work closely with other CJC colleagues including technical lead, training and capacity lead, adaptation specialist, MEAL specialist.
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, Political Science, Conflict Studies, or any other related areas
Essential:
- Enrolled in a Masters program at a Dutch university where an internship is part of the requirements
- Excellent proficiency in English
- Exceptional organisational, analytical and writing skills, good eye for detail, collaborative, proactive, and creative
- Passionate about climate change adaptation, climate justice, gender justice and conflict
- 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
- Good understanding of main climate change issues
Desired / considered a plus:
- 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, Rise
- Spanish, French or Arabic proficiencies are considered 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 starting 1 September 2026 for 6 months with possibility to extend (as internship) – 4 to 5 days a week (to be agreed upon)
- A workplace in the office in in the city center of 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 (38 hours p/w) + travel costs to the office will be reimbursed
- 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
14 June 2026, but we will review applications on a rolling basis and may invite selected candidates for a first interview before the deadline has passed.
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 University.
- As long as the vacancy is still visible, responding remains possible.
Acquisition in response to this advertisement is not appreciated
