Are you looking for an exciting internship opportunity with one of the world’s largest NGOs? Then you might be our new intern for the spring semester.

Who are we?

Climate change is the defining crisis of our time, and its impacts are unevenly weighed against the world’s most vulnerable people, the displaced persons that are at the centre of the work of DRC. By identifying climate change and environmental degradation as a prioritized part of the strategic direction of DRC, we acknowledge that climate change and environmental degradation is a global phenomenon that increasingly interacts with the drivers of refugee movements and should be addressed systematically and ambitiously. ​​​​​​​

The Climate and Environment team of 4 global advisors is taking lead on setting a strategic direction on global level to support the DRC country teams across the globe to respond to climate change and environmental degradation, to meet the displacement challenges being amplified by climate change, and to prepare and adapt for those to come. The Global Climate and Environment team provides technical support through training, guideline development and direct implementation, and monitoring support to program teams.

About the internship

The intern will support the Climate and Environment team on a range of programmatic tasks, external and internal communication on e.g. the ongoing strategic initiatives in country programming, collection and sharing of learnings across the DRC country programmes and support in organizing events and workshops etc.

Key tasks of the internship can vary according to your study direction and interests:

Knowledge management and technical support

• Develop information material on climate niches/integrated climate and sector programming (ex. Regenerative agricultural design for food security, Climate resilient infrastructure etc).
• Collect learnings across the DRC programming and organize visual materials (pictures, videos and others on Climate & Environment for reports, information material and updates.
• Ad hoc technical support on the scoring of Rio markers, The DRC Yearly Performance report, support to staff through proofreading, editing and administrative tasks as well as updating the Climate & Environment inventory with information from 2025.

Communication

• Support with SoMe etc, the management and update of the Insite page, the Viva community, the webpage and the channels of communication of the Green Society.
• Create an internal communication agenda with the goal of increasing engagement and managing it throughout the internship.
• Draft and publish Climate & Environment newsletters as well as external news pieces (flagship projects, performance reports, etc).

We offer flexibility in the type of tasks, so you also have the possibility to influence the tasks, subject to what is relevant for your study programme.

About you

To be successful in this role we expect you to be open-minded and interested in learning new areas of work within climate and environment areas, good communicator (verbal and written) and proactive.

All employees and interns in DRC should master DRC’s core competencies: Communicating, Taking the lead, Collaborating, Striving for excellence and Demonstrating integrity.

• Preferably a Bachelor degree related to environment, climate, international development, communication or the like.
  It is a requirement that you are enrolled in a university in order to be considered for the internship.

We offer

Contract length: 4-6 months subject to study requirements and further dialogue

Workplace: DRC Headquarters located Borgergade 10, Copenhagen

Start date: 15th January 2025. We can be flexible on the start date.

Working hours: Approximately 30 hours per week, subject to study requirements and further dialogue. We offer flexibility when you have study obligations next to the internship.

The internship is not paid but we offer:

• 2,08 (unpaid) vacation days per month. The days can either be spent as you earn them or be accumulated
• Free lunch in our canteen (subject to our canteen being open)
• Free participation in our year-end/summer party

Please note that if you do not have the right to work in Denmark (through nationality or existing work visa), you will need to apply for it yourself, should you be selected for the internship. This process can take up to three months from initiating the process. You can read more here.

Application process

All applicants must send a cover letter, an updated CV in English as well as documentation that you are enrolled in a university. If you are applying for more than one internship with DRC, please indicate so in your cover letter.

Closing date for applications: 11th of November. We expect to conduct interviews the 19th of November at the DRC Headquarter in Borgergade 10, Copenhagen, or online if the applicant is not located in Copenhagen.

Further information

For questions regarding the internship please contact Lillah Emmik Sørensen, The Global Lead on Climate and Environment: lillah.soerensen@drc.ngo

For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website drc.ngo.