Deadline:
April 11, 2025
Location(s)
Belgium
Belgium
Overview
Details
Our mission
Carbon Market Watch’s mission is to ensure that carbon pricing and other climate policies cut pollution and drive a just transition towards sustainable societies. Given the urgency of halting the climate breakdown, we want market-based climate policies to fulfil their promise and be used in wise combination with regulatory and incentivising measures.
Our strengths lie in evidence-based advocacy to improve climate policies, turning complex issues into comprehensible messages, and helping people understand and influence those policies.
Tasks and responsibilities
- Help maintain and update our website
- Produce content for, and monitor our social media channels
- Assist in drafting and editing communications content
- Shoot and edit videos
- Prepare visuals
- Support the comms team with routine tasks
- Carry out media monitoring exercises
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Previous experience
- Previous communications experience or qualifications
- Advanced social media skills
- Competent video making and video editing skills
- Experience with WordPress sites
- Self-starter, reliable, able to work both autonomously and as part of a team
- Positive attitude and strong interpersonal skills
- Competence in the English language – other languages are considered an advantage
- Residence and right to work in Belgium
- Ability to work in/from our office in Brussels under a hybrid system (minimum two days at the office)
Professional and personal attributes
Essential requirements:
- Previous communications experience or qualifications
- Advanced social media skills
- Competent video making and video editing skills
- Experience with WordPress sites
- Self-starter, reliable, able to work both autonomously and as part of a team
- Positive attitude and strong interpersonal skills
- Competence in the English language – other languages are considered an advantage
- Residence and right to work in Belgium
- Ability to work in/from our office in Brussels under a hybrid system (minimum two days at the office)
Desirable requirements:
- Prior experience in the voluntary and/or NGO sector
- Interest in and knowledge of environmental issues
- Some knowledge of and considerable interest in (EU and international) climate policies
- Ability to use website design tools, such as Elementor, and monitoring and performance tools, such as SEO optimisation and user experience
Dates
Deadline: April 11, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
What we offer
- Starting date: May 2025 (as early as possible)
- 6-month “professional immersion” contract, full-time
- Compensated in line with Belgian provisions (1320 EUR/month net), food vouchers amounting to €8/worked day and full reimbursement of public transport
- 10 days extra-legal holidays
- Working from home allowance
- A fulfilling working and learning experience adapted to the intern’s skills and interests
- An exciting opportunity to develop professional communications skills and techniques, working together with a dynamic, friendly, expert team
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