Deadline to apply: 6 December 2024
Expected start date: January/February 2025
Internship duration: up to 6 months
Job Type: 5 days a week internship
Remuneration: Intern Monthly Stipend provided: 400 EUR Net/month (based on 5 days/week)
Duty Station: Remote or Amsterdam
Number of vacancies: 6 internships (1 per each region)
Regions in scope: Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa, Europe & Central Asia, Asia


Introduction
Aflatoun International is an NGO based in the Netherlands offering social and financial education to children and young people worldwide. Through a strong network of 390+ partners. The organisation reaches 8.6 million children and young people each year in more than 100+ countries. Aflatoun International creates high-quality curricula, for different age groups, which can be contextualised to local needs or specific circumstances. In addition, teachers are provided with training and we conduct research to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of our programmes.

Background
The complex and rapidly changing world of today presents unique challenges for new generations preparing to enter adulthood. It is more important than ever that all children and youth, including the most vulnerable, access opportunities to develop practical skills that empower them to navigate the complexities of their working and social lives. Financial education is essential to empowerment, and fosters meaningful learning and development of key competencies. It also ensures that learners acquire the capacity and motivation to engage in all aspects of social and economic activities.

With the mounting emphasis on social and financial education, all the regions has increasingly received donor attention over the last few years; there are more and more countries and organizations, both governmental and non-governmental, expressing their interest to join the global partner network of peers so to reach the ultimate beneficiaries: children and youth. Thus, there is a need to identify an intern who can support the division to ensure optimal support to Aflatoun International’s regional implementing partners. The Intern will undertake the following activities:

Specific Objectives

• Supporting ongoing regional activities as requested
• Providing additional partner engagements on the Partner Platform
• Researching relevant opportunities in the region

• Coordinating training logistics
• Assisting training design
• Supporting technical delivery of online trainings

• Supporting the Regional Coordinator in the strategic mapping of institutions and regional bodies, events and initiatives focusing on topics related to social and financial education in the region
• Supporting the Regional Coordinator in the mapping of potential partners in priority countries
• Supporting the Regional Coordinator in the engagement of strategic partners

• Providing logistical and digital support for online trainings
• Translating and proofreading materials

Expected outcomes

• Virtual Regional Meetings successfully delivered
• Trainings successfully delivered
• Final strategic mapping ready for use
• Partner network further engaged
• Regional Virtual trainings supported on the platform

Required Skills and Qualifications

• A Bachelor or Master degree in Education or social sciences and experience in working with children.
• Ability to work in small team with motivated, multicultural co-workers.
• Fluency in English (oral and written) and depending on the region:
  • French for Francophone Africa
  • Spanish for Latin America
  • Arabic for Middle East & North Africa
  • Russian for Europe & Central Asia
  • Any local language (e.g. Hindi, Indonesian) for Asia
• Strong computer skills, including sound knowledge of Windows and Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel and Power Point.
• Advanced digital skills are a plus.

Other Relevant Information
The intern must keep confidential any and all unpublished information made known during the course of the internship and not publish any reports or paper on the basis of information obtained except with the written approval and authorization of his supervisor. Please specify in your application which region you are applying for.


Sounds like you?
Please send you application no later than 6th December 2024 to this link https://aflatoun.bamboohr.com/careers/225