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Internship: Assistant Programme Officer Global Transformations and Governance Challenges Programme

16 November 2023

The Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) programme at Leiden University is inviting applications for an internship for 17 weeks, from 1 March to 30 June 2024.

GTGC is an interdisciplinary programme that aims to advance knowledge and practice on how we govern – and could govern – major world-scale changes in contemporary society. These global transformations include hegemonic and other geopolitical shifts, ecological changes, technological innovations, pandemics, demographic trends, economic restructuring, reconfigured identities, and altered forms of violence and peacebuilding.

The internship is an opportunity for a student to learn how to operate in an interdisciplinary programme; develop organisational skills; build an academic network; further develop their academic research skills; and organise public events on pressing contemporary global governing challenges.

Key Responsibilities

  • Help organise the GTGC conference;
  • Help coordinate the GTGC seed grant programme;
  • Help build the profile of the GTGC programme through social media and the GTGC website;
  • Assist research on governing a global world;
  • Optional: write an internship research paper;

Selection Criteria

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Excellent research skills
  • Initiative
  • Fluency in English (spoken and written)
  • Organisational experience is a plus
  • Master student at Leiden University

Detailed Information

  • Job Title: Assistant Programme Officer
  • Job Location: The Hague, The Netherlands
  • Period: 1/3/2023 until 30/6/2023
  • Interviews will take place on Thursday 7 December
  • Monthly allowance of €315

Applications

Please submit your application no later than 23 November 2023 at gtgc@leidenuniv.nl. Please ensure that you attach the following documents:

  • Motivation letter
  • Curriculum vitae

For more information please contact gtgc@leidenuniv.nl.

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