We are 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 are 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:
As a Climate Project and Data Intern, based in Honiara Project Management Unit (PMU), you will spend time with the project team learning skills during project planning and implementation.

As part of the Internship, we offer a fortnightly allowance to assist you with costs while with us. We also offer internal training and support for interns in project management and project administration skills from project team members.

Skills interns are likely to learn during the internship:

1. Project administration
2. Data collection, research, and analysis to support project management and evidence-based intervention design.
3. Project file management and concepts
4. Participatory approaches to climate risk assessment and adaptation planning
5. Workshop design and facilitation support

Anticipated commitment is Monday – Friday, 9am – 4pm or if still studying alternative hours may be arranged.

Does this sound like you? You may have recently studied climate change, environmental science, water resources management, environmental engineering or another related field.

You will have an interest in data and research in addition to project management.

The internship requirements are:

1 Completed or nearly completed undergraduate degree in a related discipline (climate, environmental science, environmental engineering, data analytics or another related)
2 An interest in climate, environment related projects
3 A good level of spoken and written English
4 A desire to learn from the PMU project team and project experiences

Save the Children
It’s the feeling of knowing that your contribution is making the world a better place for children and working with others who feel the same.

In addition to a connection to social causes, you will have access to:

• Internal Save the Children training
• Friendly and flexible work environment
• Child friendly work environment

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

Applications close: 14th February 2025

We encourage applicants to visit the GCF website to find more information about the SOLKAS Project, or to 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, 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.