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** It is no longer possible to apply for the position of finance and operations manager, posted here previously **

Become a Bank Campaigner at BankTrack

New internships available as per February 2025

BankTrack is offering new internships and volunteer positions* for those that wish to learn how to become an effective campaigner impacting on the policies and investment decisions of commercial banks globally.

The positions on offer are for the first half of 2025, starting on Monday, February 3, 2025, and running until end of June 2025. Applicants must be available for the full period, for a minimum of three days per week.

What will you do?

As intern you will be integral part of one of our three main campaign teams, which work on (banks and) Climate, Nature, Human rights. It is also possible that you support one of our specific projects, or that you play a role in our overall communication strategy. For more details on our campaigns and projects, check our campaign page.

Depending on your skills and interests you may:

• create and/or maintain profiles of Dodgy Deals;
• create and/or maintain profiles of banks;
• assist in assessing bank policies, such as policies on fossil fuel financing;
• assist in data collection and processing for our ongoing research;
• help maintain and expand our mailing lists and other outreach tools;
• keep up our social media presence;
• help write blogs and news articles;
• organise our presence at bank AGMs;
• support our ongoing other campaign efforts with the skills and creativity you possess.

We may also well be able to accommodate your own ideas for a research project, assuming it is focused on commercial banks and it fits our organisational goals and objectives.

BankTrack is based in the Netherlands but is an online working community. All our internships are online and can therefore be conducted from your own home or any other quiet workspace. To ensure that you are an integral part of our team, the only requirement is that you have a good working Internet connection and that you are based in the CET time zone, or in the time zones +/- 2 hours next to it.

What do we offer?

• Gaining extensive work experience in a globally renowned campaigning organisation that knows how to challenge commercial banks globally on their impact on climate, nature and human rights;
• As part of a team that has learned to operate effectively and productively online using Zoom, Skype and other communication tools, but that also knows how to have good fun all day while doing so;
• A solid onboarding programme that will teach you all about banking and campaigning, and equip you with lots of new skills;
• Occasional travel opportunities to attend meetings and conferences and meet fellow BankTrackers;
• Proper supervision and support;
• A modest volunteer/internship payment (210 euro per month, based on minimum 24 hours per week).

If you seek to know from one of our current interns what it's like to be an intern with us, do not hesitate to contact them. Contact details are here.

How to apply?

You can (only) apply for our positions by filling in this form. The deadline for applications for this round is Monday, November 25, 2024. Interviews will be held in the week of December 2, 2024.

To ensure that the position is interesting for both you and us, we seek applicants that can commit for the full period from February until the end of June 2025, for a minimum of 3 days per week (24 hours). Please also consider the time zone requirement (+/- 2 hours CET) Please refrain from applying if you cannot commit to this period or these work hours.

We very much look forward to your application!

* Internships are part of a formal education curriculum; volunteer positions are not linked to a formal education trajectory. Once you have joined our team there is no practical difference and internally, we only speak about interns.