We’re affecting real climate-change impact for children in the Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands Knowledge-Action-Sustainability for Resilient Villages (SOLKAS) Project is one of the largest locally-led adaptation projects globally, and one of the first with a strong focus on the education sector. Largely funded under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) with co-finance from the governments of Australia and New Zealand, it has been designed to reduce children, youth and communities’ exposure to climate hazards and build sustainable, resilient communities and livelihoods in the context of climate change.

Working with communities across six provinces, the project will strengthen resilience to climate change impacts by strengthening the capacities of national, subnational, and local governments, communities, and schools to understand, plan for and implement responses to the climate crisis.

Save the Children is no ordinary not-for-profit.
We’re ambitious, creative and outspoken. We stand up for children’s rights. We want all children to be educated, healthy and live a life free from violence. Save the Children has been working in the Solomon Islands since 1986, focusing on education, health, child protection and disaster preparedness. We work at community, provincial and national levels to strive for the attainment of the rights of children and young people.

Where you come in:
In this 3-month internship, based in Honiara, you can expect to learn from hands-on experience with the Finance and Procurement team to build your skills and knowledge. This internship will report to the Manager Finance and Procurement and learn hands-on experience from the Procurement and Finance Officers.

An allowance for travel /incidentals will be provided based on days completed.

You will make an impact by:

• Having excellent Microsoft office application knowledge, mainly excel.
• Outstanding communication skills, verbal and written to be able to get results.
• Exceptional team worker, internally and externally so stakeholders provide and respond swiftly.
• Computer savvy to resolve and troubleshoot issues.
• Having multitasking skills and be able to work on different tasks at once.
• Being energetic to attend to priorities as and when required.

Does this sound like you?

A fast learner and be able to gel well with team members by having excellent inter- personnel skills to contribute to the success of the Projects deliverables.

This role requires:

• Excellent Microsoft office skills.
• Awareness of NGO work.
• Finance & Procurement understanding which would be advantageous.

• Some office operational knowledge.

  Sound interesting?
  We’d love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume by clicking one of the buttons below.

Applications close:1200am, 14 February 2025.

We encourage applicants to visit the GCF website to find more information about the SOLKAS Project, or view the Save the Children Solomon Islands page.

Send your cover letter and resume to solkas.hr@savethechildren.org.au

As the conduit to the Green Climate Fund funding, Save the Children is supporting the recruitment of staff for the SOLKAS Project on behalf of the Solomon Islands Government. Save the Children is a child-safe organization and all personnel on its programs are required to undergo a Police Clearance, verbal reference checks and accept our Code of Conduct and Child Safeguarding policy.

The SOLKAS Project is dedicated to ensuring a workplace suitable for all people and can modify our recruitment processes to suit you – no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture, and beliefs.