Internship with the DRC Standby Roster Team

at  Dansk Flygtningehjlp

DepartmentHumanitarian Strategic Surge Capacity
WorkplaceCopenhagen
Contract TypeNational contract
Posted28 Oct 2024
Expires11 Nov 2024
Do you want to support the humanitarian emergency response capacity of the UN in Denmark’s largest humanitarian NGO? Then apply for our DRC Standby Roster intern position starting January 2025.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS

Your field of study is not paramount, but it should be within social sciences and/or international affairs.

To apply for the internship, you must meet the following requirements:

• Have an interest in international affairs and humanitarian assistance
• Have completed a minimum of two years of higher education
• Be fluent in spoken and written English
• Have the ability to navigate a challenging environment and handle a wide range of complex tasks

It is a requirement that you are enrolled in a university during the full internship period.

• Updating our website information and working on social media presence
• Writing and distributing our quarterly newsletter to all roster members
• Supporting with ad hoc administrative and financial tasks using Excel and our internal ERP system ‘Dynamics’ to process deployees’ expenses, book flight tickets and support colleagues and roster members with various inquiries
• Supporting the preparation and facilitation of the induction trainings of new roster members
• Assisting with the recruitment, reference collecting and onboarding of new roster members
• Attending briefings and debriefings with roster members before and after deployments
• Registering UN requests for deployments and trainings in our ‘HERO’ database
• A development project defined according to your competencies and interests, which contributes to the development needs of the Standby Roster team
  We offer flexibility in your work, so you also have the possibility to influence your tasks, subject to what is relevant for your study programme.

As an intern in the DRC Standby Roster, we offer you the opportunity to:

• Gain experience working in an internationally recognized humanitarian NGO
• Gain knowledge of the humanitarian system and the UN partners we work with
• Work independently and with a lot of responsibility
• Be part of an enthusiastic and dynamic team