Programme Intern

LOCATION: Hanoi, Vietnam

INTERNSHIP LENGTH: 1 year

INTERNAL JOB GRADE: N/A                      

DEPARTMENT and TEAM: Goal 2

Stipend:  We provide a monthly stipend plus accident and health insurance

HOURS (FTE): Full-time (1FTE)

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization.

Oxfam is a global movement of people who are fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice. There are currently 21 member organizations working in 81 countries. We have a vision of a just and sustainable world. A world where people and the planet are at the center of our economy. Where women and girls live free from violence and discrimination. Where the climate crisis is contained. And where governance systems are inclusive and allow for those in power to be held to account.

Oxfam in Vietnam believes that a reduction in poverty, injustice, and inequality will occur through the interaction between active citizens, accountable states and responsible private sector and that it is fundamental to Vietnam’s development. Oxfam in Vietnam aims to influence the current growth-based development model to shift to a Human Economy Development Model, putting people and the planet before profits.

DEPARTMENT PURPOSE: Oxfam’s Good Governance programme is focused on ensuring that all citizens, in particular those who are marginalised in society, such as ethnic minorities and poor men and women, have increased access to information and feel confident about raising their voices. We work to ensure that citizens have greater opportunities to influence decisions that shape their lives and can hold the government accountable.

TEAM PURPOSE:As part of the Good Governance programme, the objectives of projects are to contribute to strengthen the rule of law in Vietnam through a more reliable, trusted and better accessed justice system. The specific objective is to increase access to justice for vulnerable groups, in particular women, children, ethnic minorities and poor people.

THE INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME: Oxfam offers an internship programme for young Vietnamese graduates who are passionate about Oxfam's mission of working with others to overcome poverty, suffering and injustice.    Selected interns will have an opportunity to watch and to learn how to perform some basic admin, finance, and programme tasks in the organization. Intern will also receive regular coaching and mentoring on technical programme management and behavioural competencies. After the internship, they will gain essential office, admin, finance, and programme management skills and will gain invaluable working experience that benefits their future employment. Intern will also have an opportunity to take number of training opportunities in Oxfam. They will be coached by Programme Officer and other members.

THE INTERN WILL BE REPORTED TO

Senior Programme Manager - Governance

INTERN WILL BE COACHED BY

Programme Officer and Programme Administrative Officer

AREAS OF LEARNING:

Administrative, finance and program management skills:

• General administrative skills including filing, sending and circulating mail, scanning, photocopying, travel booking, and preparing finance/payment documents;
• Interpretation and translation skill (letters and project documents);
• Taking notes and preparing meeting minutes skills;
• Logistical arrangement skill in the organization such as logistic arrangement for trainings, workshops on capacity building for grantee, and field trips;
• Storing information skill for project Monitoring and Evaluation
• Other skills if relevant.

Communication skill and learning:

• Communication skill while working with Oxfam staff and partners (contact programme partners, consultants and other stakeholders in relevant activities).
• Opportunity to join learning events in Oxfam

Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam International Secretariat needs to be able to:

• Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, COURAGE, SOLIDARITY and EQUALITY (read more about these here)
• Ensure you commit to our ORGANIZATIONAL ATTRIBUTES (including adhering to the Code of Conduct):

1. Be committed to our feminist principles, and to applying them in your day-to-day behaviour and your work. Be ready to keep learning, with accountability to those who experience oppression as a result of their identities, such as their gender, race/ethnicity, disability, class, or LGBTQIA identity."

2. Be committed to undertaking Oxfam’s safeguarding training and adhering to relevant policies, to ensure all people who come into Oxfam are as safe as possible.

ESSENTIAL

• Self-Awareness
• Relationship building
• Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity
• Listening
• Mutual accountability

In addition:

• University graduate; graduate with background in law, public administration or social development is an advantage;
• Very good spoken and written English and Vietnamese;
• Good computer skills (MS Word, MS Excel, Ms Outlook, PowerPoint);
• Good communication skills;
• Ability to work independently as well as in the team;
• Strong motivation for learning about development work;
• Willingness to travel, if required.