Environmental Defense Youth Trainee

What will you be doing?

As a trainee on the Milieudefensie Jong coordination team, you’ll spend a year learning how to engage young volunteer groups in a dynamic movement for climate justice. You’ll get the chance to organize the coolest actions alongside experienced organizers: you won’t just learn how to do it, but you’ll actually do it. After a year full of action and growth, you’ll decide for yourself how to continue building climate justice—in your own way, in your own community. Within Milieudefensie, you’ll help Milieudefensie Jong make its own voice heard.

What is an organizer? An organizer works to involve as many volunteers as possible in Milieudefensie’s campaigns and empowers them to take action on their own and develop their skills. We also refer to volunteers as “change-makers.” The more people who join us, the more pressure we can put on major polluters. Polluters are powerful, but together we are stronger.

What are the options?

1. Exercise Trainee

• You have a knack for bringing people together, responding to their needs, and inspiring them.
• You will coordinate and mentor young volunteers, thereby developing your organizational skills.
• You will explore how young people can become and remain active at the local level. You will do this in collaboration with the Milieudefensie group team.
• You’ll build a broad network of allies within the climate movement and constantly seek out new avenues for action for young people within the movement. You’ll do this in collaboration with the trainee community, which is dedicated to empowering those already involved in the movement.

2. Trainee Campaign

• You have a knack for bringing people together, responding to their needs, and inspiring them.
• You will coordinate and mentor young volunteers during their activities as part of the campaign, thereby developing your organizational skills.
• Together with your volunteers, you’ll organize events, campaigns, and demonstrations and make sure everything runs smoothly.

3. Trainee Community

• You have a knack for bringing people together, responding to their needs, and inspiring them.
• You will coordinate and mentor young volunteers, thereby developing your organizational skills.
• Together with your committee, you will work to build and strengthen the community of everyone involved in the work of Milieudefensie Jong.
• You will organize team-building activities that contribute to the campaign or help strengthen team spirit. You will do this in collaboration with the trainee group, which is focused on expanding the current network.

4. Communications Intern

• You're creative and have a knack for working with text and images.
• You have a deep understanding of social media platforms and can effectively determine which content is best suited for each platform
• You will develop and create social media content for Milieudefensie Jong’s channels.
• You will ensure that all Milieudefensie Jong activities are properly documented through photos and videos, and you will design campaign materials in collaboration with the various committees of Milieudefensie Jong.

Does this sound like your next adventure? Join us and make a difference!

What are you bringing?

• You can work two days a week; sometimes you’ll work evenings and weekends.
• You have a perfect sense of what people need and can easily get them excited.
• You're excellent at planning and organizing your work. You have everything under tight control.
• You work really well together.
• You’re committed to helping build a fair and green future

Who do you work with?

You will work as part of a team of four trainees under the guidance of two experienced organizers and the chairperson. You will also work closely with your team of young volunteers and draw on the diverse expertise of your colleagues at Milieudefensie. You will report to the head of Movement Building.

What do we offer?

• A one-year contract.
• A fixed salary of €3,241 for full-time employment. At Milieudefensie, that amounts to 37.5 hours.
• Your own laptop that you take home with you every day, so you can work from home as well.
• The option to arrange your work hours flexibly and to swap (Christian) holidays for other holidays
• A casual and open work environment with enthusiastic colleagues.
• A challenging position in an inspiring and dedicated organization, where you’ll play a key role in shaping a fair and sustainable future.
• A sufficient travel allowance, work-from-home allowance, and leave policy.
• An office in Amsterdam (Overamstel), easily accessible by bike and public transportation.
• Fresh fruit every day and an organic lunch twice a week for a small fee.
• Free access to the OpenUp interactive platform for mental well-being

Milieudefensie staff work partly from home. We meet both online and in the office.

We believe in the power of diversity and strive to build a diverse workforce with balanced representation across gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, and ethnic background. That is why we especially encourage people from groups that are underrepresented within the climate movement to apply. 

Want to apply right away?

Interested? Please upload your cover letter (maximum 1 A4 page) and resume, both in PDF format, bySunday, May 11, via the:

1. Online Application Form for the Movement Trainee Program
2. Online Application Form for the Trainee Campaign
3. Online Application Form for Community Trainee
4. Online Application Form for Communications Trainee

The interviews will take place on Friday, May 16, and the second round of interviews will be held on Friday, May 23.

Do you have any questions?

If you have any questions about the Movement Trainee and Community Trainee positions, please contact Asher de Jong Weissman, Organizer at Milieudefensie Jong, directly at asher.de.jong.weissman@milieudefensie.nl. For the Campaign Trainee and Communications Trainee positions, please contact Organizer Sam Verkerk at sam.verkerk@milieudefensie.nl.

Recruitment agencies are asked to refrain from contacting us regarding this job opening.