IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental network - a democratic membership union with more than 1,400 government and NGO member organizations members in more than 160 countries, and with the collaboration of over 18,000 experts that make it the leading authority on the status of the natural world and the measures required to safeguard it. IUCN’s work is supported by more 800+ professional staff in 50 offices and hundreds of partners in public, NGO and private sectors around the world.

IUCN’s work focuses on valuing and conserving nature, ensuring effective and equitable governance of its use, and deploying nature-based solutions to global challenges in climate, food and development. IUCN supports scientific research, manages field projects all over the world, and brings governments, NGOs, the UN and companies together to develop policy, laws and best practice.

RESPONSIBILITIES
IUCN’s Strategic Partnerships Unit (SPU) is responsible for identifying and managing strategic partnerships with IUCN’s donors. The Strategic Partnership Unit coordinates IUCN’s overall resource mobilization efforts. The mission of the intern will be to support SPU in a variety of research, communications, and logistics tasks. The below job description contains the main duties and responsibilities for this position. However, staff members are expected to show flexibility in their approach to work and be willing to undertake other tasks that are reasonably allocated to them but which are not part of their regular job description.

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Background research/intelligence gathering (desktop) on selected bilateral donors and multilateral institutions. This will include analysis and synthesis of information on their development policies, environment and conservation strategies, partnership and funding priorities and budgets.
2. Contribute to strategic partnership building through background research on private sector partners as requested.
3. Develop background briefs on bilateral and multilateral donors and on private sector partners when required.
4. Prepare documents/communications for IUCN’s donors and support the management of donor information.
5. Contribute to communications and visibility activities and products tailored towards IUCN’s key existing and targeted donors.
6. Conduct research and prepare statistics/analysis on IUCN’s donors/funding using data from the IUCN project portal and other data sources.
7. Support the preparation of internal and external meetings with IUCN donors as well as fundraising events/receptions.