The NDPHS Secretariat is looking for interns – NDPHS

The NDPHS Secretariat is looking for interns

16 December, 2024

INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME 2025 

Are you ready to gain hands-on experience in an international environment and enhance your professional journey? Join the NDPHS Internship Program!

The NDPHS Internship Program offers you an opportunity to round out your academic career with a hands-on experience in an international environment. By bringing fresh ideas, research insights, and new perspectives into our work, you will improve your skills while working in a professional environment. In addition, it is a way to enhance your CV with practical work experience. Through this program, you’ll contribute to meaningful projects, and add valuable international experience to your CV.

Start Date: February 2025 (flexible)

Duration: 6 months, with potential renewal up to 12 months

Commitment: Full-time (40 hours/week)

Conditions: A granted monthly scholarship

WHO CAN APPLY?

To qualify for the internship, applicants should be university graduates. While having finished university studies is viewed as advantageous, we also consider applications from students who have completed three years of full-time academic studies before commencing the internship.

While a Health and Social well-being background is highly desirable, we also encourage applications from candidates across diverse academic disciplines who exhibit a strong interest in social science, sustainable development, political science, and international policymaking.

AREAS OF FOCUS:

We are currently prioritizing internships in the following areas:

  • Mental Health
  • Organisational Governance
  • Communications
  • Project support

The programme can also be tailored to your specific thematic interest and skills.

Don’t miss the opportunity to gain hands-on experience and contribute to meaningful work in an international team. Apply now and start shaping your career!

ELIGIBILITY

This internship is open to citizens of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and Ukraine. Applications from citizens of other countries may be considered on an exceptional basis.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

We value diversity in our workplace and encourage all qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds to apply. We apply equal opportunities and accept applications without distinction on grounds such as age, race, political, philosophical, or religious conviction, sex or sexual orientation, and regardless of disabilities, marital status, or family situation.

There is no age limit. The NDPHS internship programme does not exclude those who, in the framework of lifelong learning, have recently obtained or are in the process of obtaining a university degree and are at the beginning of a new professional career.

LANGUAGES

The successful candidate is expected to be highly proficient in spoken and written English which is the working language of the NDPHS.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The internship will take place at the NDPHS Secretariat’s office in Stockholm, Sweden.

The NDPHS Internship programme grants a monthly scholarship of 10,000 SEK per calendar month for the full-time internship and pays a travel allowance to compensate for the expenses incurred at the beginning and at the end of the traineeship from the place of residence.

FORMALITIES

You are responsible for your housing arrangements and formalities with the Swedish authorities. You are required to present valid health insurance coverage during your stay in Sweden.

HOW TO APPLY?

The deadline for application is 20 January 2025. 

The position can be filled when a suitable candidate is found before the call is closed, therefore all interested applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

Please send your application to secretariat@ndphs.org with the email subject line “INTERN”. 

The application consists of your CV in English in Europass format and a cover letter outlining your motivation, educational background, professional skills and expertise, topics you are interested in that you would like to focus on during your internship, and your preferred starting time.

Please note that you may be asked to provide references.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

A reserve list of candidates may be drawn up by the NDPHS Secretariat following the interviews and used should additional internship opportunities arise. The reserve list will be valid for 12 months after the closure of the selection procedure.

THE SELECTION PROCESS

The successful candidate will be selected based on motivation, education, experience, and best organizational fit in the Secretariat’s team.

You are expected to reply within 7 working days of receiving the offer.

Questions regarding the application can be submitted to the NDPHS Secretariat at secretariat@ndphs.org

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