Intern (m/f/d) in Infrastructure Investment at the City Climate Finance Gap Fund

The objective of the City Climate Finance Gap Fund (Gap Fund), a global partnership comprising two multi-donor trust funds administered by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank (EIB) respectively. The EIB’s activities under the Gap Fund are implemented with support from GIZ GmbH. The Gap Fund supports cities worldwide in preparing concrete infrastructure investments that contribute to climate change adaptation and/or mitigation. These investments projects span sectors such as transport, energy, water, green spaces, urban infrastructure and waste management. However, local capacities, experience, and funding are often insufficient to guide these projects through the high-risk pre-feasibility phase.

The GIZ programme Support for Project Preparation for Urban Progress (SuPPUrbP) supports the management of the Gap Fund operations and provides technical assistance (TA) to cities and/or other project developers during the pre-feasibility stage of infrastructure investments. The TA activities are implemented upon request in low and middle-income countries in Africa, Latin America, European Neighbourhood Countries, Asia and the Pacific. You can find more information on the Gap Fund and its current activities at www.citygapfund.org. The dynamic multi-disciplinary and international GIZ team works closely with relevant EIB-colleagues and is based in Germany as well as in Luxembourg.

Your tasks during the internship will be the support of the project team in their daily work with a focus on Gap Fund communications and relations to partner cities, in particular:

• Supporting the assessment and preparation of investment projects in urban infrastructure sectors, such as energy, transport, green spaces and urban infrastructure, water and waste management; this includes research on background information and the drafting of project documents
• Supporting knowledge and document management, especially with regard to the collection, structuring and preparation of technical advisory to specific cities in low and middle-income countries
• Support communication planning and the production of content (blogs, factsheets, social media content etc.)
• Supporting the planning and logistics of high-level conferences, and virtual events
• Support in the Monitoring and Evaluation processes, including operational planning and updating of indicators
• Schedule content across Gap Fund’s social media channel
• Support maintaining the Gap Fund website, and intranet page, including updating key content
• Support the maintenance of an organized communications repository, store and update visual assets and documentation to facilitate efficient use across the Secretariat
• Supporting in further administrative and organizational tasks

You have to be currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or recently graduated (within last six months) in urban development, economics, engineering, public policy, communication or equivalent. We are looking for the following skills and experiences to be met under this position:

• Knowledge and/or prior work experience/internships in city administrations and/or with municipal service providers and/or international organizations
• Basic understanding of the preparation of investment projects and/or urban development processes
• Basic understanding of the international climate change debate, including climate finance, and the climate action reporting schemes
• Basic understanding of technical assistance (advisory) of national or subnational stakeholders in developing countries and emerging economies
• Project management skills, and ability to communicate clearly and effectively with a range of stakeholders
• Proactive self-starter who can work independently with limited supervision but can also work collaboratively in a team environment
• Proven proficiency in speaking, reading and writing English; and proficiency in other languages such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic or Russian is an asset
• Enthusiasm to work in a multi-disciplinary and intercultural team
• Ability to efficiently structure information and processes
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks within tight deadlines
• Familiarity with social media content development and analytics tools is an asset

GIZ is a signatory of the Diversity Charter. Recognition, appreciation and inclusion of diversity in the company are important to us. All employees shall be valued - regardless of gender and gender identity, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, social background, age or sexual orientation. 

Please be informed that you are only allowed to apply for this internship, if you are currently enrolled as a student or graduated not longer than six months ago from the start of your internship.

 We pay a monthly stipend of €2.349,- (gross).

We support equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities. 

For further information, please contact Ms Alexandra Linden (alexandra.linden@giz.de).