Intern Shared Operations

‘flexible, semi – independent with excellent planning & organizational skills’

4-5 days per week for a period of 6-9 months, starting in 2023

You

You are interested in working in an international organization and eager to learn. You are enthusiastic, result driven and have great communication skills. As an intern in this role, you support the Operations and Quality officer and the Senior Advisor Organizational Development in the following areas: travel, quality management system development, environmental management and operations in general. This is an operational internship in which you will experience learning opportunities through collaboration with various departments.

Your Challenge

You provide support the Operations and Quality officer and Senior Advisor OD in the areas detailed below. On a daily basis this can be communications, planning and coordination, documentation or technical support. There is operational work to do, but you will also be involved in more tactical and strategic discussions. Obligations you have in relation to your study will be taken into consideration with you in order to ensure that the time with War Child will benefit your education and your start in the job market.

Your responsibilities

Quality management system development

• Learn from and support Quality officer and Senior Advisor OD on improvement actions resulting from internal quality audits

Environmental management

• Learn about relevancy of environmentally sound ways of working
• Support putting in practice our ambitions on environmental performance and environmental management
• Support the functioning of the international Environment group, incl. communications, gathering and processing data etc.
• Support in the development and introduction of a new travel booking tool.

Shared Operations

• Learn about NGO operations (HR, Finance, IT, GOOD team, legal and procurement)
• Coordinate basic procurements and invoicing
• Support the team with reporting and administrative tasks whilst gaining insight in NGO operations rotating through the various different departments withing shared operations
• Support with communications on behalf of the shared operations team
• Support and participate in departmental projects
• Provide support in organizing meetings, projects and events, and preparing materials for these.

Your profile

• Student of HBO or Bachelor program, with specialization IBMS, Business Administration, Marketing, Economics or similar.
• You areenrolled in a Dutch higher education institutefor the whole duration of the internship
• Ability to produce quality work outputs within agreed priorities and to deadlines
• Ability to maintain contacts at different levels
• Excellent planning & organizational skills
• Problem solving skills, can-do mentality
• Pro-active, independent and flexible
• Interested to work and communicate with people from various backgrounds
• Strong teamwork and communication skills including presentation preparation and delivery
• Excellent command of English language, both spoken and written
• This is a full time internship, working 4 days is an option
• Available to start January/February 2023 for a minimum period of 6 months.

Our organization

War Child is a medium-size development and humanitarian organization with offices in Amsterdam, Stockholm, Hamburg and nine conflict zones. The Shared Operations Department (including HR, Finance and ICT) is at the heart of the changes that have just started taken place to change from a primarily Dutch organization to a more balanced global organization. The Department provides services shared by all organizational units. We try to keep an informal ambiance within our office in Amsterdam, with a lot of room for creativity, inspiration and self-initiative from employees. We try to practice what we preach: dynamic, innovative, integrity focused and a drive to reach the highest possible results against the lowest possible costs.

Our conditions

We are looking for an Intern Shared Operations who will join Team Shared Operations, from January 2023 for a period of at least 6-9 months, 4-5 days per week. As intern in War Child you can count on an interesting internship with a degree of freedom to work out your ideas and work on tasks related to your education. You will receive an internship allowance of € 200, – gross per month, based on 40 hours per week.

Please note that War Child interns need to be enrolled as students at a Dutch educational institution for the duration of their internship. Please note that this internship does not suit students who are in their thesis writing semesters.

How to apply

Interested and qualified candidates are invited to apply by no later than 31 December 2022 by submitting their CV (English, max 2 pages) and cover letter using the following hyperlink**:**

https://www.warchild.nl/stage-lopen/intern_shared-operations/

By submitting your application you certify that all of the statements made in your application are true, complete, and correct and are made in good faith. You understand that falsifying, misrepresenting or intentionally withholding information will be grounds for rejection of your application or withdrawal of any offer of appointment or, if an appointment offer has been accepted, this will be ground for employment sanctions, such as, but not limited to, instant dismissal. In addition, you understand that you need to submit a Criminal Record Certificate and that, if you fail to submit it, no employment relationship can be established.

War Child is an international organisation, and we are committed to be a diverse and inclusive employer, placing human and child rights at the centre of our existence and work. We hire our new colleagues based on their talents, competences and shared values; we do not distinguish them based on their age, gender and gender identity, race, color, ethnicity, religion, culture, sexual orientation, disability etc.

The safety of children and youth is a paramount and essential to War Child’s work. War Child has a zero tolerance policy towards any form of abuse. To prevent placing children and youth at any risk this subject is addressed in our recruitment and selection procedures. Moreover, the accepted candidates will be required to state their commitment/ intent to be aware, consider and adhere to the minimum standards applicable in development and humanitarian settings, such as humanitarian values and principles, Sphere Humanitarian Charter, Standards in the Humanitarian Standards Partnership, Core Humanitarian Standard, International Humanitarian Law, Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Disaster Relief and IASC Six Core Principles Relating to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.

Disclaimer

• Only applications received via our website are processed.

• If we appoint a suitable candidate before the given closing date, we reserve the right to remove the vacancy from our website before that date. In such a case, any responses received after that time are not processed.

• It could be that during our selection process the closing date for the vacancy is extended. If so, and you have not yet heard from us, your application will remain active.