Internship (Junior Project Officer), unpaid, Remote from any country; with possibility to travel to Gaziantep/ Turkey At TRUST Consultancy & Development

We receive 10-20 interns every quarter with two-week trainings in the beginning, and during the intern period, each intern is supervised by one of our staff members.

Departments: Business development; Proposal writing; TPM & Research; Operations

Positions for interns involve: Monitoring and Evaluation, Proposal Writing, Project management, Capacity building/ training, Human Resources, Digital marketing, Media and Communication, Data Analysis, Report Writing, Data Collection, and open to other position as well

Trust Consultancy and Development is an independent research and capacity development consultancy based in Turkey, providing a range of services to the whole of the MENA region. Our dedicated team aspires to provide a range of expert services to international and local NGOs, businesses, donors and third parties with vested interests in different aspects of development and humanitarian action.

Our work addresses the growing demand for third-party research, data collection and high-quality research, and capacity building services. Aside from our independent research institution, we offer third-party consultancy services, and our clients include GIZ, Expertise France, Global Communities, IRC, IMC, DCA, Save the Children, People in Need, World Vision, Norwegian Refugee Council and Samaritan’s Purse. As a research institution with capacity building built into our organisation, we offer a unique perspective and can tap into a network of people working on the ground in real time on the issues we research. Currently, we are working in Syria, Turkey and Iraq. Our head office is in Gaziantep, Turkey with satellite field research bases in Syria and Iraq.

For more information about our work, please consult our

Website: https://trustconsultancy.org/

Objective (summary of the position)

The internship will offer you the opportunity to gain experience working with the relevant subjects:

1- Proposal writing

2- Monitoring and evaluation

3- Research

4- Business development

5- Training/ capacity development

6- Media and communication

7- Data collection and analysis

8- Report writing

9- Human resources

10- Digital marketing

11- Project management

12- Translation

13- Safety and security

14- Others (as we are open to receive new interns who can suggest us areas for improvement, if it is new to Trust)

In our experience with former interns at Trust, a committed intern/junior officer can learn basics of any department she/he joins in 4-6 months, then spends 6 other months as an officer, and then in a year is able to manage a project in the department he/she joins. If the intern has already previous experience, he/she can be a project manager in less than a year.

Tasks and responsibilities

The exact tasks will depend on the department you will join. After a meeting with your line manager/ supervisor, you will agree on the roles, responsibilities and tasks that suit you.

1- You will select from the tasks your supervisor does, as you will be considered as an assistant from the first day following the two-week orientation/ training.

2- Once you are qualified to take more tasks, more tasks will be delegated to you.

3- Your areas of interest and experience will be considered; for instance, if you prefer to work on projects related to food security, you will be allocated to this type of projects. If you prefer to be involved in projects related to Iraq or Syria or Libya or Yemen, you will be involved in projects/ proposals/ trainings related to the required country/ field

4- You will be involved in many tasks related to secondary data research, proofreading, data entry, translation, webinars preparation and delivery, …

You will report directly to your supervisor/ line manager

Candidate profile & qualifications

1- Has a desire to work in the humanitarian/ development sector and companies serve the humanitarian sector

2- Hold a University Degree or relevant qualifications in Development (with a demonstrable interest in Education, Events Management, Logistics)

3- Speak fluent English

4- Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish or Persian (Farsi) would be an asset

5- Have excellent written and verbal communications skills

6- Teaching or training design experience an asset

7- Experience collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative research

8- Knowledge/ experience in the Middle East region is an asset

9- Familiarity with humanitarian sector/ NGOs/ donors is an asset

10- Sound decision making and organizational skills

11- Familiarity with international cultures as our team is from the four corners of the Globe.

Benefits (e.g. compensation, lunch tickets, travel allowance, accommodation)

Trust Consultancy is a small but growing consultancy with great success since it was established in 2016. This is unpaid internship; however, our interns will get the following benefits;

1- Gain hands on experience in the area of their interest; many of our interns were involved in projects during the first week they joint Trust.

2- Benefit from the trainings Trust conduct with no fees; we have at least 1-2 trainings a month. Some of the trainings we plan for are project management, program management, core humanitarian standard, Sphere, gender-based violence, among others. For more information about our trainings, please consult our website https://trustconsultancy.org/capacity-building-department/ and consult Relief Web https://reliefweb.int/training?advanced-search=%28S39509%29

3- Networking: during your internship you have a chance to communicate with stakeholders externally and internally (NGOs, donors, consultants). In addition, Trust has a LinkedIn Alumni group were all those who worked and still working in it joins, so they keep communicating with each other for possible works/ assignments.

4- Communication and presentation skills: our interns have the opportunity to organize internal and external webinars, arrange for debates, and organize social events. All interns are expected to do either a small research assignment or small training on a relative subject during their internship.

5- Possible work with Trust: depending on your performance and our organization’s needs, you have opportunity to work with Trust after your internship; as an officer, project manager, technical consultant, full time or part time, or on task-based assignments. More than 80% of our team started with Trust as interns, including the current CEO who was one of the NOHA interns, proposal writing manager, business development manager, and many project managers and project officers.

6- Field work experience: if you are asked to be involved in field work with travel, Trust will be responsible for all expenses, such as accommodation, travel, and per diem. Many of our interns travelled within Turkey, Kurdistan, Libya and Jordan as part of their internship where they collected data, coordinated trainings, and presented our work.

7- Combining internship with MA thesis; this internship is a great opportunity to select an MA thesis/ topics related to Trust’s work; Trust can support you in linking you to respondents for your field work/ interviews, including questions about your research in its projects, support in data collection, and data analysis. Many of our ex-interns did their MA thesis during or after internship with joint supervision from NOHA and Trust.

8- You will follow a project, and thus, be able to experience each step of the project cycle in line with what is taught on the NOHA program. Our current staff who are/was NOHA students all voiced a robust correlation between work tasks at Trust and what they have learned from the Program.

9- By support from your line manager, you will learn analytical methods of quantitative and qualitative data. All interns will be provided with trainings on such methods and will be supported and guided by their line managers throughout the intern period.