Finance and Administration Intern

Do you want to enter the field of the world’s leading social innovators? Ashoka Netherlands is looking for a Intern in the field of Finance and administration.

ABOUT ASHOKA

Our vision and understanding of the world come from Ashoka’s experience in pioneering the field of social entrepreneurship over the last 35 years—finding, selecting, and supporting the world’s leading social entrepreneurs (Ashoka Fellows). The network of more than 3,000 Ashoka Fellows is implementing system-changing solutions to human and environmental problems in 89 countries. Our work with Ashoka Fellows helps us see patterns of social development across various fields, providing key levers and a new framework for living in the world as a changemaker. We help people see the world differently so they can do differently, fully participating in the new environment. For example, Ashoka is building and activating networks to create fundamental changes in the growing up experience of children and young people so that everyone can become a changemaker.

WHAT WE DO: -

The ideas of Ashoka Fellows today will point to the areas for greatest collective impact tomorrow. We are investing in the people and patterns of collaborative entrepreneurship that are necessary in an everyone a changemaker world. Our current investments seek to shape a world where:

• Leading social entrepreneurs access the resources they need to thrive and spread their systems-changing innovations

• Every child grows up practicing empathy

• Every young person is practicing the skills of empathy, new leadership, teamwork, and changemaking

• Society organizes as a fluid, open team-of-teams A fluid Role with concrete tasks:

Want to learn all about finance and administration in the context of world’s 5thlargest NGO (Ashoka )? Ready for a steep learning curve in a challenging international work environment?

We are currently looking for an

Intern (6 months) (Unpaid internship)
0,5 – 0,8fte, in Den Haag

You will provide financial and administrative support at the Hague office. This is a great opportunity to experience day-to-day practice in an international Social Innovation organization.If you are accurate, service-oriented and eager to learn, you should take this opportunity and apply!

Main Tasks:

• Accounts payable and accounts receivable support
• General accounting and administrative support
• General business and office support

Candidate Requirements:

• Excellent English& Dutch language skills.
• Qualification: - University (Bachelor), university of applied sciences (‘HBO’) or vocational school (‘MBO-4’), preferably in Accounting or Financial Administration. Very motivated candidates with another profile and a good eye for figures are welcome to apply
• IT literacy, great analytical and Excel skills
• Accurate, service-oriented; eager to learn; team player
• Interest in sustainability, Social innovation and international NGO

Desirable:

• Passion for IT related challenges

We kindly invite you tosend your CV(max 2 pages)and cover letter(max 1 page) as soon as possible, mentioningApplication FA- Internin the subject line.

Please state in your letter:

1) Why you are interested in this position at Ashoka Netherlands

2) Why and how changemaking applies to you

• If you are short-listed, we will contact you within 2 weeks of your application

• Ashoka will be unable to provide individual feedback to applicants who are not short-listed