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- Experience 0-2
Desired start date: 03/24/2025
Duration of the internship: 6 months
Location: SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL headquarters in Clichy
Mandatory internship agreement
SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL (SI) is an international humanitarian aid association that, for over 40 years, has been providing assistance to populations affected by armed conflicts and natural disasters by meeting their vital needs: drinking, eating, and shelter. Particularly committed to combating diseases linked to unsafe water, the world’s leading cause of death, SI implements through its interventions expertise in the field of access to drinking water, sanitation and the promotion of hygiene, but also in the essential field of food security and livelihoods. Present in 26 countries, SI’s teams – 3,200 people in total, made up of expatriates, national employees, permanent staff at headquarters, a few volunteers, etc. – intervene with professionalism and commitment while respecting cultures.
Context
Integrated within the Accountability and Partnership Development Department (RDP), the Institutional Cooperation Service (SCI) is structured around 3 pillars:
monitoring and maintaining the relationship between SI and its institutional (public) funding donors/partners to feed SI’s institutional strategy;
producing/strengthening internal knowledge of institutional donors/partners and their procedures;
diversifying the portfolio of institutional donors/partners and prospecting.
The assistant will carry out his/her duties under the supervision of the head of the Institutional Cooperation Service, within a team composed of the service manager, two institutional cooperation officers and the assistant.
He/she will actively contribute to the search for funding and to knowledge of donors/institutional partners and their procedures.
His tasks may lead him to work with other IS departments (programs, program quality and communication in particular).
Main tasks:
Monitor funding opportunities and news from institutional donors through a weekly newsletter: research/selection of funding opportunities, synthesis, dissemination. Funding opportunities will also be monitored via the new internal activity management software;
Write and disseminate summaries of calls for projects, funding opportunities and reports from institutional donors;
Support the manager and officers in researching and writing summary documents on different institutional donors in order to strengthen internal knowledge of these donors, their funding mechanisms and procedures;
Support the department in updating and archiving information and documents relating to donors, particularly as part of the transfer of information to the organization’s new activity management software: contact list, minutes of donor meetings, summaries of calls for projects, documents on the operation of donors, etc.;
Support the manager and officers in prospecting for new institutional donors;
Participate in internal and/or external department meetings and write minutes;
Translate working documents from English to French, and vice versa, using available software and tools.
Higher education (bac +4/5 level) focused on political, human and social sciences, law, international relations, or any other relevant field;
Excellent writing, synthesis and formatting skills in French and English;
Critical and analytical mind, autonomy, rigor;
Strong interest in the causes defended by SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL;
Interest in the functioning of donors/institutional partners (public) and the financing of humanitarian aid and international cooperation;
Professional mastery of French and English;
Mastery of Microsoft 365 tools and appetite for information management software;
Internship based at the SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL headquarters in Clichy (92), Mairie de Clichy metro station
Intern with mandatory internship agreement.
Compensation: 4.90 euros/hour
Compensation is calculated in proportion to the actual hours of presence during the month. (On average 1 month = 154 hours, or 22 days of 7 hours/day)
Public transport covered at 50% by SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL
Meal vouchers at 8.90 € / actual day of internship, with participation of SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL at 60%