Internship Market Information at CBI

•    You are enrolled with a Dutch educational institution during the entire internship period;
•    You are enrolled in a higher professional (HBO) or academic education with an international orientation, in fields such as economics, business administration, international relations, public administration, African studies etc;
•    You are passionate about international trade and/or development aid;
•    You have knowledge of and/or affinity with market research and/or data analysis is a plus;
•    You have excellent command of both spoken and written English;
•    Knowledge of French is a plus;
•    We should have a working understanding of spoken and written Dutch since our general meetings are in Dutch. Writing skills in Dutch are not required.;
•    You must be eligible to work in the Netherlands.
Functional competencies:
•    Planning and organising: you are able to set priorities for yourself or others;
•    Analytical and detail-oriented: you possess a keen eye for detail, and approach tasks with a structured, analytical mindset;
•    Proactive and solution driven: you focus on finding solutions and actively identify opportunities for improvement;
•     Strong communication and teamwork: you communicate clearly and are willing to help others when needed.

• Dienst­verband Meeloopstage
• Minimaal aantal uren per week 36
• Maximaal aantal uren per week 40

Stagevergoeding
Als jouw stage bij het Rijk langer duurt dan één maand. Dan heb je recht op een  stagevergoeding. De stagevergoeding is gebaseerd op een vijfdaagse werkweek, waarbij wordt uitgegaan van 40 uur stage (5 dagen van 8 uur) per week. Bij een stage van minder dan 40 uur per week, wordt dit berekend naar evenredigheid van het aantal afgesproken uren.

Reiskostenvergoeding
Kun je als stagiair geen gebruikmaken van een OV-studentenkaart voor het reizen tussen je woning en de stageplek? Dan kun je een reiskostenvergoeding krijgen. Hiervoor gelden de woon-werkverkeer regels voor rijksambtenaren. Maak je als stagiair een dienstreis? Dan gelden de regels voor binnenlandse dienstreizen en buitenlandse dienstreizen voor rijksambtenaren. Reis je met de trein voor een dienstreis? Dan reis je in tweede klasse.

Vakantie-uren
Alleen bij stages van een maand of langer vindt toekenning van vakantie plaats. Je hebt tijdens je stage aanspraak op 160 vakantie-uren op jaarbasis bij een stage van 40 uur per week. Is de stage voor minder dan 40 uur per week overeengekomen? Dan wordt de aanspraak op vakantie-uren naar evenredigheid vastgesteld. 

• Om je sollicitatie in behandeling te kunnen nemen, ontvangen we graag je cv en motivatiebrief.
• Voor deze functie is een Verklaring Omtrent het Gedrag (VOG) vereist.
• Acquisitie naar aanleiding van deze vacature wordt niet op prijs gesteld.
• Na sluitingsdatum zijn de vacaturetekst en de gegevens van de vacaturehouder online niet meer zichtbaar. Om te voorkomen dat je deze moet opvragen, verzoeken wij je de vacaturetekst te downloaden en te bewaren

RVO supports ‘hybrid working’. Our starting point is that you can do your work from any location (from home, at the office or elsewhere). However, your presence at the RVO office in The Hague may be required in situations to be described. For this position, the expectation is an average of 2 days per week.

The start and end date of your internship can be agreed upon in consultation.

All information about your internship with the Central Government can be found at: https://www.werkenvoornederland.nl/starters/stages. In addition to a good compensation, you will also receive vacation hours and good guidance.

Department Description

CBI aims to contribute to sustainability transitions in sectors in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. We do this by stimulating the export of products and services, particularly to Europe, together with local and international private and public partners. We focus on the export of niche products and services that offer economic opportunities for local SMEs as well as opportunities for more decent work in the sector and better treatment of the environment. For example, consider the export of organic variants of agricultural products, semi-finished products instead of raw materials and sustainable variants of textiles. In this way, we use export as a means to contribute to sustainability transitions.

We contribute in particular to SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth) and SDG 12 (responsible consumption and production). In each project, we focus on one or more sustainability issues. We pay particular attention to issues concerning women and young people. In order to contribute to the sustainability of sectors, we use systems thinking.

We have a portfolio of between 40 and 50 multi-year projects in more than 25 countries. We work on these with approximately 60 people, divided over three teams.

Within the CBI, you will join the Market Intelligence team (MI team). The MI team is a small but close team consisting of 4 programme managers and 1 project officer, who together are responsible for publishing high quality market studies in 14 different sectors on the CBI website. The studies mainly focus on exporting to Europe with SMEs from low- and middle-income countries, eager to export to Europe, as their main target group.

CBI is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is a department of RVO.

Please take a look at our website www.CBI.eu. There you will find more information about us, our projects, our market information and the strategy 2021-2025.