National Intern

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 on regional trade integration are bundled. The team is distributed over three locations in Vietnam: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Can Tho. The team in Hanoi is in charge of partner coordination and the implementation of the Viet Nam based activities of BMZ financed regional and global projects:

• The Viet Nam country package of the global program “Green Innovation Centres in the Agriculture and Food Sector” in Viet Nam (GIC), implemented under the special initiative "ONE WORLD No Hunger" (SEWoH), commissioned to support the transition to higher resource efficiency and value creation in the Mekong Delta farming systems to adopt climate-smart and sustainable innovations in the rice and mango value chains that increase incomes, employment, and the quality of produce while reducing their environmental footprint.
• Strengthening the resilience of poor population groups to climate change in selected ASEAN states (Climate Resilient Agricultural Systems, CRAS): aims at promoting resilience against climate change impacts in agricultural value chains.
• 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.
• Sustainable Agriculture for Forest Ecosystems (SAFE): aims to promote a holistic approach for forest governance and sustainable land use management at forest frontiers.

The project is looking for a local qualified candidate to fill the following position:

National Intern
Duty station: Can Tho City, Viet Nam
Duration: 6 months starting from November 2024

The National Intern will learn & practice by assisting the Agri Team on the following tasks:

• Assist the team to implement technical activities in the area of rice and mango value chain as well as Agriculture risk finance
• Assist the team to organize field training and logistic preparations
• Assist the team to organize the field monitoring and data collection for the different projects
• Assist the team to consolidate the results and achievements
• Assist the administrative team to organize the physical/virtual meeting, voucher documentations and clarifications
• Assist the team in setting up and perform the GIC Closing Workshop in 2025
• Support PR team to perform the PR documentations
• Support other activities if required

Requirements

• Vietnamese citizen, who is currently undertaking or completed the bachelor/ graduate studies in agriculture, environmental studies, economic, international business, or similar
• Proficiency in using MS office: Word, Excel, PPT
• Good in graphic design
• 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
• Good English & Vietnamese command, written and spoken

Apart from a monthly allowance, successful candidates will enjoy professional and dynamic working conditions and good policies of training.

Interested qualified candidates are invited to send the latest curriculum vitae, cover letter and copies of relevant certificates and references by email [email protected] not later than 23^rd October 2024.

Note:Please state “Application for Internship - Agriculture Team in Can Tho” in the subject line. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted after the deadline. Telephone contact is not encouraged.

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