Event Production & Creative Communications Internship (Theme: Climate Justice)

The GREEN Unit at Oxfam Novib develops and implements programmes that advance climate justice and strengthen climate resilience. Through partnerships with civil society organisations, grassroots movements, and activists worldwide, the unit works to challenge the inequalities driving the climate crisis and support communities and movements in building a more just and sustainable future.

The Campaigns & Influencing Unit focuses on driving social and political change through public and supporter campaigns, advocacy, lobbying, and creative influencing actions. By engaging the general public, policymakers, and other key stakeholders, the unit mobilises support, raises awareness and builds pressure for systemic change on issues of inequality and injustice.

This internship offers an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in communications, creative artivism on climate justice, and event production, working across both units.

A key focus will be supporting the final phase of Tipping Point, a four-year project that financially supports and strengthens youth-led climate justice movements worldwide. As the project's final creative outcome, Oxfam Novib is developing a public mural in Rotterdam that brings climate justice stories to life. The mural will be co-created through a citizen participation process, together with local communities, the municipality, artists, and two consultants focused on public participation.

The intern will support the coordination of the mural's development and takes a leading role in organising a public launch event in late April 2027 and assist with communications-related products to be developed by Rotterdam municipality, Oxfam Novib and partners.

Next to this project, the intern can help with citizen engagement events organized by Oxfam Novib with local actors in The Hague on the topic of climate justice, aimed to enhance citizens their knowledge on climate topics and policies, strengthen influencing, community organizing and communication skills and facilitating exchanges with policy makers. Also, there’s a possibility to support the GREEN Unit in developing communications materials to engage institutional donors, including a fundraising webpage and LinkedIn content showcasing the impact of Oxfam Novib's work.

Key tasks

🎨 Support the Rotterdam climate justice mural project, including coordinating with two creative consultants, gathering insights from citizen participation workshops, and helping translate these into communications and storytelling materials.

🎉 Take a lead in organising the public mural launch event in Rotterdam, including programme planning, invitations, coordination with partners, production, and logistics.

📝 Support with creating engaging communications materials for the mural and Tipping Point project, including social media posts, website content, invitations, and promotional materials. A local partner (Rotterdams Weerwoord) will take the lead on this.

🤝 Support stakeholder engagement, working with local communities, artists, activists, and project partners to ensure the mural and its launch reflect diverse voices and perspectives.

🌍 Help with citizen engagement events at local level in The Hague, learning about the link between global and local climate justice challenges/work.

✍🏽 Optional: contribute to communications and fundraising efforts for the GREEN Unit, including developing content for a fundraising webpage aimed at institutional donors and LinkedIn posts.

💡 Participate in team meetings and creative brainstorming sessions, contributing fresh ideas for campaigns, storytelling, and audience engagement.

🛠 Perform other communications and event-related tasks as needed, including editing, planning, administrative support, and coordination.

Who are we looking for?

🎓 Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree in a relevant field.

📚 Studying (environmental) communications, event management, media, international development, arts & cultural management, marketing, or a related discipline.

🌍 Strong interest in climate justice, social movements, human rights, activism, arts and international development.

✍🏽 Excellent organisational, writing, editing and communication skills, with an ability to translate complex topics into accessible and engaging content.

🎉 Enthusiasm for event production, creative campaigns, and community engagement. Previous experience organising events is an advantage.

🎨 A creative mindset and an interest in visual storytelling, public art, and participatory processes.

🧠 Proactive, independent, and organised, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and collaborate with different stakeholders.

💡 Affinity with social media, particularly LinkedIn, and digital communications. Experience with visual tools such as Canva is an advantage.

🌈 Strong cultural sensitivity, gender awareness, and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

🗣 Fluency in English required; excellent command of Dutch is required particularly for communications and event coordination with local partners in Rotterdam and The Hague.

What will you gain?

This internship offers the opportunity to work on a tangible, creative climate justice project from community participation to its public unveiling. You will gain practical experience in event production, communications strategy, storytelling, and stakeholder engagement, while learning how an international NGO connects with citizens, grassroots movements, public campaigning, and institutional fundraising.

You will work closely with a communications specialist as your supervisor and collaborate with colleagues across the GREEN and Campaigns & Influencing Units, as well as external creative partners and local communities.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants to the internships at Oxfam Novib must meet the following requirements:

• Be a student of 18 years or older.
• Be enrolled at a Dutch educational institution (university or HBO) for the whole duration of the internship.
• Understand that this internship is formulated as work experience to develop an understanding of career objectives. It is not meant to be a thesis internship.
• Have the legal right to live and work in The Netherlands or be prepared to obtain the right to follow an internship as part of their study in the Dutch educational institution. A three-partite internship agreement (between Oxfam Novib, the educational institution and the student) will be signed to that effect.
• Have less than 3 years of relevant full-time work experience.
• Not having been in employment with Oxfam Novib previously.

Our offer

An intern in Oxfam Novib is offered an internship contract for the duration of the internship and a monthly allowance based on €450,- per month on a basis of a 36-hour work week, pro-rata in case of less hours.

The intern is expected to have a student OV card; however, if not applicable, a reimbursement of commuting costs will be offered.

Oxfam Novib works on hybrid basis – partly from office, partly from home. Interns are expected to be on-site in The Hague at least two days a week, with remote work flexibility.

During this internship, the intern is supervised, overarchingly by the C&I Unit Manager and daily/weekly by a designated colleague/buddy. The period of this internship takes place between February and June 2027 (approximately a period of 5 months). The period cannot be modified. 

All our work is guided by our core values: Empowerment, Accountability, Inclusiveness, Courage, Solidarity and Equality. At Oxfam Novib, we work according to the Feminist Principles - Oxfam Policy & Practice.

Oxfam Novib is based on the power of difference. That is why we aim to attract a diverse mix of talented people who share our standards, values, and principles, and who are committed to prevent and eliminate any type of misconduct.

We have an active policy against sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, any form of abuse of power or lack of integrity and financial misconduct. This subject will be covered in our application and selection process.

We will ask the chosen candidate to provide a contact for a character reference (it could be from the university/higher educational institution or other sources)

Additional information

Do you believe that this is the internship you are looking for? Then we would love to receive your application! Please note that only applications received before the closing date 22 November 2026 and submitted via our application portal will be taken into consideration.