Date of last update: 08/05/2022 2022-05-08
The Pestalozzi Children's Foundation (PCF) is a Swiss non-profit organisation, which promotes peaceful cohabitation worldwide by empowering the most marginalised children and adolescents. The Foundation seeks to provide children and youth with access to holistic quality education and to strengthen their intercultural competencies. The Pestalozzi Children's Village in Trogen (Appenzell Outer-Rhodes) is at the heart of the Foundation and its activities in Switzerland and in twelve countries. Abroad, PCF works with local partner organisations to enable children to access quality education in primary schools, particularly vulnerable children.
In recent years, PCF project countries recurrently experienced the consequences of climate change. Heavy cyclones, floods, droughts etc. lead to the dislocation of people and endanger children's access to education and to future prospects. Therefore, PCF aims to reinforce its activities related to climate change, focusing more on environmental aspects in its projects and programmes in Switzerland and abroad.
The objective of this one-year, remunerated traineeship with the Pestalozzi Children's Foundation is to integrate climate change and environmental aspects in PCF programming and projects (SDGs 4, 13 and 17). The traineeship is based at the Headquarter of the Pestalozzi Children's Foundation in Trogen (AR), with the opportunity of conducting field visits to several PCF countries such as Thailand, Serbia (to be defined during the traineeship) for duration of at least three months. During the stay abroad, the trainee will be staying in PCF country offices working closely with PCF local staff and visit project sites.
Your tasks and responsibilities as Climate Change and Education Trainee:
This position is part of the SDG Youth Programme. Your struggles to gain initial work experience are exactly what led us, Mercator Foundation Switzerland and cinfo, to create this new programme. We want to offer young people an insight into the professional field of international cooperation, with internationally active NGOs and social enterprises.
Please find the full job description here:
Join date: 01/09/2022
Working hours (%): 80-100%
80-100%Type of contract: Internship
Duration: 12 months
Education level: Bachelor's degree
Macro-area: Multiple
Level of experience: Entry level, less than 1 year
Area of work Definition: Environment, Disaster Risk Management DRM, Energy and Resource Efficiency
Type of organisation: Foundations and Private Sector
For the programme:
For this position:
Please find full description in the ToR's and learn more about the SDG Youth Programme on our website.
Important details regarding your application
Make sure your profile on cinfoPoste is complete and up to date:
Application deadline: 08 May 2022
First round of interviews: 19, 23, 24, 25 and 30 May 2022 (online)
Start date: 1 September 2022
Any questions? Contact Shazia Islamshah and Sandrina Simoes, cinfo's Recruitment Specialists, recruitment@cinfo.ch.