11-002 | Internship – GCA Africa Office

LOCATION: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

INTENSITY: 5 months, full time

ANTICIPATED START DATE: 22^ndJuly 2024

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 5^th July 2024

COMPENSATION: 500 Euros per month gross

About GCA

GCA is an international organization, which acts as a solutions broker to accelerate action and support for adaptation, from the international to the local, in partnership with the public and private sector. Founded in 2018, GCA is hosted in Rotterdam by the Netherlands, with regional offices in Abidjan, Dhaka and Beijing and its Research for Impact hub (R4I) in Groningen. GCA engages in innovative solutions to drive adaptation at scale, high-level policy development, new research contributions, advocacy, communications, and work with partners to deliver action on the ground. GCA’s work focuses on those who are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change including the poorest communities and countries, to help them withstand health, social and economic impacts of a climate emergency.

The Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program is GCA’s flagship program and aims to mobilize $25 billion to scale up and accelerate climate change adaptation actions across Africa. Through its four pillars – Climate Smart Digital Technologies for Agriculture and Food Security, the African Infrastructure Resilience Accelerator, Empowering Youth for Entrepreneurship and Job Creation in Climate Adaptation and Resilience and Innovative Financial Initiatives for Africa – the AAAP is slated to contribute to closing Africa’s adaptation gap, support countries to make a transformational shift in their development pathways by putting climate adaptation and resilience at the center of their critical growth oriented and inclusive policies, programs, and institutions. In the context of the AAAP, R4I engages in research activities that can support program and project design and implementation in three areas: efficiency of adaptation-related interventions; conditions for their sustained uptake and support for scaling.

About the assignment

The Africa Office Intern (hereinafter the “Intern”) will report to the Regional Director for Africa with dotted lines to the Senior Partnerships Manager for Africa. The intern will play a crucial role in supporting the mobilization of partners for the planned Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP) Partnership Fora. The intern will also support the delivery of other planned events and activities to strengthen partnerships around the AAAP including partnership events organized with the African Development Bank, the African Union, the Africa Food Systems Forum and other identified fora. Specific responsibilities of the intern are listed below.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the preparation and implementation of high-level political events and meetings.

• Preparing background briefs on key events which have been identified as potential advocacy opportunities for the AAAP.

• Attending preparatory meetings of key events with the Senior Partnerships Manager and producing summaries and notes of those meetings.

• Monitor and share key political continental developments around climate change, climate adaptation and adaptation finance that are relevant for the work of the AAAP.

• Follow-up on outcomes of key climate meetings and negotiations and share summaries of these.

• Support in developing post-event communications material including blogposts, webpage content and social media assets following the organization of key events.

• Contribute to and assist in any task that may arise concerning support to GCA’s partnership building in Africa and beyond.

Learning Elements offered by the GCA:

• Technical and Political understanding of climate change adaptation developments globally and in Africa

• Honing of research skills through conducting various research pieces.

• Building of interpersonal skills through working in an international context and contact with partners and officials from various backgrounds.

• Leadership skills through, organizing high level events.