ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM PROGRAMMES - 2024
4-6 months’ internship at the Foundation for Environmental Education
The Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) is looking for an unpaid administrative assistant (intern) that would like to work with our tourism-related environmental programmes, Green Key and Blue Flag, for for 4-6 months from 12 August 2024 (exact dates can be flexible). The main areas of work will be the administrative support in the process of the Blue Flag global criteria revision, support to the development of the Green Key application process, as well as support to the development of best practice tools/material and educational courses.
Main tasks and responsibilities
1) Blue Flag global criteria revision administration support
Criteria administration update and development of supporting materials for the Blue Flag network: document review, document production, e.g. executive summaries, minutes, survey, criteria drafts, monitoring and reporting mechanisms development support.
Online thematic working parties' administration support: coordination of internal online meetings.
2) Green Key application administration support
Support to the work on evaluating material from incoming applications for Green Key from applicant establishments.
3) Development of material for the Green Key toolbox
Creation, collection, and revision of content (templates, documents, best practice examples, support material) for the Green Key Criteria Toolbox. The material of the Green Key Toolbox can be downloaded by the staff of Green Key establishments as an assistance to their work.
4) Development of educational courses for Green Key
Support to the creation and revision of content for educational courses for a) Green Key national auditors, b) Green Key national administration staff, and c) Green Key establishments staff. The educational courses are developed with the use of the Moodle platform of the FEE Academy
5) Administrative tasks
Taking care of ad-hoc administrative tasks such as database maintenance, response to general requests, etc.
Other office-related tasks
Terms and conditions:
Unpaid internship for a duration of a minimum of four months. It is encouraged that the internship is part of the internship requirements for students in the hospitality industry, but it can also be part of a post-studies internship.
The intern will have to work 35 hours a week, including a 30 min lunch break.
English is the official language at the FEE Head Office
Additional information for the intern to be working from the FEE Head Office:
The intern is an EU/EEA/Nordic citizen or have a valid work permit in Denmark.
The intern will be working half time from the FEE Head Office and half time from home.
The intern will need a social security number in Denmark (which means that the applicant has to provide proof to the government that he/she has enough financial funds to sustain him/herself (see: https://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-GB/You-want-to-apply/Residence-as-a-Nordic-citizen-or-EU-or-EEA-citizen/EU-Self-support)
The intern informs FEE about existing holiday plans in the internship period during the interview. Holidays during the internship are confirmed by the intern’s supervisor and should be announced two weeks in advance.
Required skills and experience
Fluent in written and spoken English
The applicant should have a background or work experience in sustainable tourism, sustainable development, or other sustainability-related fields of work
Experience with online course platforms (such as Moodle) is strongly recommended
Experience with design programmes such as Canva and Adobe software is preferred
Precise and organised way of working
Proficient user of Microsoft Office package
Capability of working in a team as well as independently
Comfortable working in a multicultural environment
Application procedure
1) Please send your CV and motivation letter via email to:
Finn Bolding Thomsen, finn@fee.global
Johann Durand, johann@fee.global
* Please send your application to both the email addresses above
* Please write in the subject “Application for BF/GK Administrative Assistant”
2) The short-listed applicants will be called for an interview on Zoom/Teams or in person at the FEE Head Office (evaluation process will take up to two weeks, depending on the volume of applications).
3) The successful applicant will be contacted.
Please contact us at any time if you have any questions regarding the internship.
About the Foundation for Environmental Education, Green Key and Blue Flag
The Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) is the world's largest environmental education organisation, with over 100 member organisations in more than 80 countries. With 40+ years of impactful experience in Education for Sustainable Development, our new strategic plan - GAIA 20:30 - prioritises climate action across all programmes to address the urgent threats of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution.
Green Key is a leading certification programme for hotels and other tourism establishments with more than 5,000 certified establishments in 60+ countries. The Green Key recognition is based on compliance with rigorous internationally recognised criteria, regular on-site audits, and a third-party verification of the certification. Green Key is managed by FEE and 40 of its national member organisations.
The Blue Flag programme is a voluntary award for beaches, tourism boats and marinas complying with a strict set of criteria within the categories of environmental education and information, environmental management, water quality, safety and other services. Blue Flag is, in 2022, awarded to more than 5,000 beaches, boats and marinas in 50+ countries worldwide. Furthermore, other countries in various regions around the world are working on implementing Blue Flag.
Application process for the positions is CLOSED.
Contacts
Finn Bolding Thomsen
Tel. +45 6124 8082
E-mail: finn@fee.global
Johann Durand
Tel. +45 6124 8086
E-mail: johann@fee.global