Internship at the Dutch embassy in Bangkok

The Political and Economic Department of the embassy in Bangkok is looking for two enthusiastic, enterprising and versatile interns for the period from August 28, 2017 to February 23, 2018 and from September 4, 2017 to March 2, 2018.

The Organisation

An embassy represents Dutch interests abroad. To this end, the embassy maintains contacts with various authorities up to the highest level of government. The core tasks of the embassy in Bangkok concern three countries -Thailand, Cambodia and Laos- and are in the fields of economy and trade, agriculture, consular affairs, public information, press and culture and, to a lesser extent, human rights and politics.

The Department

The economic and political department has a wide range of tasks. The department focuses on the economic, political and cultural interests of the Netherlands in Thailand, with an emphasis on economic activities.
Activities in the context of trade promotion, reporting on general economic and sector-specific developments, and maintaining a broad network at government, business and civil society level are particularly important in this respect.
In addition, conducting public diplomacy and promoting topics such as International Corporate Social Responsibility (ICSR) are tasks of the department. Laos and Cambodia receive less attention due to priority setting.

The job content

The trainee will end up in a dynamic environment, where insight can be gained into the role of the embassy and its employees by performing a range of activities.

Activities include:

• Assisting embassy staff in economic and trade matters, political affairs and public diplomatic and cultural activities;
• Providing information to policy officers for messages to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other relevant ministries and cooperation partners. These are reports about the economic, financial, commercial, political and social situation in Thailand and about relevant laws and regulations;
• Maintaining and innovating social media, updating the economics and politics web pages, and updating the news archive;
• Accompanying embassy workers during meetings and attending briefings and lectures and contributing to the reporting thereof;
• Contributing to the expansion and maintenance of a network relevant to the embassy;
• Assisting in the assessment of grant applications and organizing (public diplomatic) events;
• If desired, a smaller, own assignment can be done in consultation, such as applied research, possibly as part of the study.

Profile of the trainee(s)

The intern must:

• be in an advanced stage of a university study relevant to the position (masters level).
• have a general interest in Thailand and an affinity with the Southeast Asian region;
• excellent command of both the Dutch and English language;
• have good communication, representational and analytical skills, as well as excellent written expression;
• own input, initiative and independence. This must be apparent from the letter of motivation and the CV;
• to have a flexible attitude due to the versatility and diversity of tasks and current developments;
• preferably be skilled with social media, other multimedia techniques and graphic design;
• to be available for the entire internship period;
•  preferably to have previously lived abroad for a long period of time.

Conditions and Fees

Terms and conditions and fees can be found at  www.werkenvoorinternationaleorganisatie.nl/stages

The candidate must have Dutch nationality and be registered at an educational institution during the entire internship period. The candidate may not have previously completed an internship at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Apply

Interested parties can send their letter of motivation and CV until 30 April 2017 at the latest [email protected] Attn. Martin van Buuren stating INTERNSHIP/NAME. Candidates will receive a decision within two weeks after closing of the deadline.
In any case, state in your motivation letter what your specializations and interests are and the reason why you want to do an internship at the embassy in Thailand.
For more information, please contact [email protected].

Source: Facebook page of the Dutch embassy in Bangkok