INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY
As a federal enterprise, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development. We work in a variety of fields and support our cooperation partners in designing strategies and meeting their policy goals. GIZ Viet Nam is currently engaged in four priority areas: 1) Vocational training; 2) Environmental policy and sustainable natural resource use; 3) Energy; 4) Sustainable Economic Development. Gender equality is one of the key values of our company and of the work we do. Fostering gender equality in our project operation and our internal equal opportunity provisions are two strategic pillars of our corporate identity and policy. For further information please visit our website: www.giz.de/viet-nam.
Within the Agriculture and Climate team of GIZ’s Green Cluster (comprising all projects from priority area 2), projects with a focus on Vietnam as well as a number of regional initiatives are bundled. The team is distributed over three locations in Vietnam: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Can Tho.
The Agriculture and Climate Team in Hanoi is offering an internship opportunity to the implementation of the following projects:
- Innovative climate risk finance for the agricultural sector in the ASEAN region (AgriCRF): aims at promoting access of farmer to gender responsive climate risk finance product/services for agriculture sector in Asian region to help farmer enhancing resilience and less exposure from weather risk event.
- Agri-Photovoltaics for Rural Areas in Viet Nam (APV): has the objective to strengthen capacity and knowledge of key stakeholders for a farmer friendly APV development on agricultural land towards additional income for farmers.
- Promotion of sustainable agricultural value chains in ASEAN II (ASEAN AgriTrade II) aims that harmonisation measures for compliance with sustainability and quality standards in regional and global agricultural value chains have been implemented by member states of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN).
The project is looking for a local qualified candidate to fill the following position:
National Intern
Duty station: Hanoi, Viet Nam
Duration: 6 months, starting from 1st April 2025
Main Duties:
The qualified Intern will support and practice the specific tasks to Agriculture and Climate Team in Hanoi in following activities:
- Assist the technical team to implement technical activities in Agriculture and Climate Team
- Assist the technical team to organize internal and external meetings, project events (preparation, taking minutes, coordinating the participation, logistic arrangement of the field mission, etc.) when needed.
- Assist the team in coordinating and executing field monitoring activities, including data collection, while ensuring regular updates to the project monitoring system on a monthly basis.
- Assist in the content development of project’s communications products such as articles, infographics, social media posts, etc.
- Support communications activities before and after the event including website updates, social media campaigns, emails, press release and other media types.
- Provide translation services when needed (English and Vietnamese)
- Support other activities if required
Requirement of qualifications
- Vietnamese citizen, who is currently undertaking or completed the bachelor studies in agriculture, environmental studies, economic, international business, or similar
- Proficiency in using MS office: Word, Excel, PPT
- Open minded, willing to learn new knowledge, dynamic work, interculture environment work
- High self-motivation and independently work ability, willing to travel
- Strong soft skills: communication, interaction and facilitation
- Able to travel to project site if required by the project team (within Vietnam)
- Good English & Vietnamese command, written and spoken
- Good German written skill is an advantage
Apart from a monthly allowance, 24/7 accident insurance, 1,5 days annual leave per month, the successful candidates will enjoy professional and dynamic working conditions.
Interested qualified candidates are invited to send the following documents in English to Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Mai: [email protected] before 12th March 2025.
- Cover/Application letter explaining your motivation and qualification (max 400 words),
- Your CV
- Certificates (university and IELTS/or TOEFL) for evaluation – if available.
Note: Please state “Application for the Internship_Agri Team” in the subject line. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted after the deadline. Telephone contact is not encouraged.
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