Deadline: 1 October 2011
Open to: Students and graduates with excellent oral and written English
Salary: Small salary of 8.676 SEK/month.
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation has since 1980 given out awards, often called the “Alternative Nobel Prize”. The prize is delivered every year to four outstanding individuals or organizations in the fields of peace, human rights, and the environment. The Stockholm-based office of the foundation has two staff members and usually two interns.
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation offers internships during two periods every year (the exact periods can be discussed):
- January to mid-July
- Mid-August to Christmas
Interns are an important part of the team. Interns get involved in most of the aspects of the work, with a great deal of responsibility. Over the year, there are three kinds of internships: Research intern (around new proposals), Award intern (working with preparations around the Award ceremony) and Communications intern (working with the website, Facebook, media, film etc).
This is a full time position where the intern will concentrate on work around nominations for the 2012 Award and research about candidates and potential candidates. The period of the internship is from January to July 2012 (exact period can be discussed).
The main tasks of the interns:
- answer and archive incoming nominations;
- conduct research about candidates and potential candidates for the award;
- conduct background research about certain topics that areinteresting for the award and help identify potential nominators and nominees in these fields;
- write nominations for other awards; and
- general office support.
Eligibility
The intern must have:
- a University studies (ongoing or finished);
- knowledge about and interest in social, environmental, human rights and/or development questions.
- excellent oral and written English (German and Swedish is an advantage. Other languages such as French or Spanish would also be beneficial.)
Salary
The intern will be paid a small salary of 8.676 SEK/month.
Application
If you are interested in the position, but would like to have some more information before applying, you are welcome to contact the present intern, Steffi Geilhof (+46-8 7020339, or assistant@rightlivelihood.org).
Please send your application (containing a letter of intention and a CV with references) by email to the Foundation Manager, Kajsa Övergaard: kajsa@rightlivelihood.org. Your complete application must reach their office latest 1 October 2011.
If you are interested, please find all information in a pdf file that you can download here.
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