The Intern will support the implementation of the Forest and Grassland Team in 6 months, in particular he/she will provide technical, administrative and policy support to projects, including the Dryland sustainable landscapes impact programme global coordination project. She/he works closely with the members of the Team and backstops Program Assistants and consultants where necessary.
The Intern will have the opportunity to learn and work on other aspects of the Forest and Grassland Team work, including but not limited to: Land Degradation Neutrality, Forest landscape restoration, Nature-based Solutions.
We intend to offer to post-graduate students or recently graduates a work experience through a practical and on-the-job training approach. At the same time IUCN will benefit from the young professional’s services and the new perspectives from the Intern.
The Intern will be responsible for project implementation support on the following:
- Assist in collecting data, conducting data analysis and compilation of projects’ related reports
- Assist in preparation of meetings, workshops, conferences, events, and any field work
- Support the programme team with meeting minutes and follow-up action points from project meetings
- Support the programme team by drafting summary session reports and key outcomes for project’s workshops and conferences
- Assist in projects’ reports, stories writing, scientific papers and other deliverables
- Provide communications support to document project’s outputs and the work of the Team, including:
o promoting IUCN work via social media channel and storytelling; story write-ups, publications, etc.
o finalizing projects’ publications: review, editing
- Undertake any other tasks that may be assigned by the Line manager or Head of FGT
Expected outputs
- Project activities implemented as required by line manager
- Short articles, papers and web stories shared with IUCN members and other stakeholders and posted
- Relevant workshops and events attended and reports prepared