Internship with the Institutional Donor Unit

The Institutional Donor Unit (IDU) intern will be a part of a dynamic team spread across DRC HQ, DRC representations and DRC Ukraine. Further, there will be close collaboration with the DRC Regional Business Development colleagues and across HQ departments. The intern will support tasks related to researching donor trends and enhancing the internal communication of donor priorities, trends and news across DRC HQ, Representations and 41 country operations. The tasks include but are not limited to:

 

Creating a new format for donor monthly updates and supporting the roll out of the monthly updates.

Scoping of new funding opportunities.

Coordinating the development of new business development tools.

Developing structures of workspaces and Insite pages including building a new Business Development Tools and Resources subsite on the DRC intranet (Insite)

Researching thematic trends across donors

Helping to organise meetings and appointments as well as produce and distribute minutes of meetings.

Providing inputs and supporting the development of external products such as presentations.

 

Additionally, the intern will have the opportunity to delve into various learning opportunities such as courses or presentations relevant to the IDU unit and the broader organization. We offer flexibility in the type of tasks, so you also have the possibility to influence the internship, subject to what is relevant for your study programme.

To be successful in this role we expect you to be flexible, eager to learn 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. The intern should be able to meet the following requirements:

• Be effective in the use of Office 365.
• Have an interest in donor relations, fundraising, donor engagement, donor compliance and/or how NGOs fund their operations.
• Interest in learning more about working in an international NGO.
• Be fluent in both written and spoken English.
• Be able to work systematically with a good structure for the tasks that you are responsible for.
• It is a requirement that you are enrolled in a university to be considered for the internship. Therefore, applicants should be pursuing a graduate level degree in:
• International Relations, Political Science, Development Studies or other related social science studies.

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