Internships at SOS Children's Villages

SOS Children's Villages, founded in 1949, is the world's largest non-governmental organization focused on supporting children and young people without parental care, or at risk of losing it.

Child neglect, abuse and abandonment is everywhere. Families are at risk of separation. Locally led, we work in more than 130 countries and territories to strengthen families who are under pressure so they can stay together. When this is not in a child or young person's best interests, we provide quality care according to their unique needs.

Together with partners, donors, communities, children, young people and families, we enable children to grow up with the bonds they need to develop and become their strongest selves. We speak up for each child's rights and advocate for change so all children can grow up in a supportive environment.

Location: Vienna/Austria 

Duration: 9 months, full-time (38,5 hours/week)

Application deadline: 30th April 2025

Tasks & Responsibilities

The aim of the internship is to offer a first-hand experience of what it is like to work at a global NGO like SOS Children’s Villages. Through this internship, you will be able to provide general support to a function/department or a strategic project (e.g. attend and organise meetings, prepare presentations, draft proposals, etc.).

Please see the specific tasks and responsibilities:

• Manages operational and administrative aspects for the leadership team, including but not limited to calendar management, general correspondence, organising meetings, organizing travel, leave and travel requests, and managing the department’s virtual collaboration platform

• Supports with the budget including coordinating the planning and monitoring process and liaising with finance

• Coordinates larger scale internal events with multi-country participation

• Supports with external and internal networks, meetings and strategic projects

• Maintains good communications and relationships with different stakeholders internally and externally

• Provides content support in the preparation of meetings including research and presentation materials

Requirements

• Bachelor's / Master’s studies (ongoing or graduate) or equivalent

• Previous experience through studies or work experience: project management and/or budget management and/or event management and/or finance and/or HR

• Good administration and organization skills . Any practical experience would represent a strong advantage

• Sensitivity of multicultural environment and commitment to the organisations’ values

• Open-minded approach to global issues 

• Self-motivated and good team player 

• Good knowledge of MS Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint  

• Strong written and oral communication skills in English. German would be an asset

• EU citizenship or a valid working permit to work full time in Austria

We offer

• A diverse and international working environment with a social and thriving team culture 

• Insight into the functioning of an international NGO 

• Training possibilities 

• Flexible working times

• Home-office possibility (75% of working time)

• Overtime – does not get lost and can be taken as hours off 

• Possibility to work from abroad max 25% of your working time after onboarding period

• Choice between Innsbruck and Vienna office 

• SOS Children´s Villages International believes that interns undertake a valuable role in our organisation. We offer a fixed gross salary of €1.250 per month on a full-time basis.

Process  

Please prepare in advance all supporting documents (CV, motivation letter and certificates/diplomas/proof of enrollment).

If your profile corresponds to our requirements, you will be contacted and invited to an interview and possibly asked to complete a written assignment.

How to apply

If you are interested in this position, please submit your application in English by 30th April 2025 via our ICIMS recruitment system.

What We Stand For 

SOS Children’s Villages is committed to creating and maintaining a caring and protective environment, which promotes its core values, and prevents and addresses child abuse and exploitation. We strongly condemn all forms of child abuse and exploitation, be it within or outside of our organization, and always respond to any case of proven, alleged or attempted abuse within our sphere of influence according to its nature. Efforts ensure that mechanisms are in place to raise awareness, aid prevention, encourage reporting and ease response. They range from human resource development actions such as training and counselling to measures such as suspension, dismissal, and legal action. 

SOS Children’s Villages is committed to creating and maintaining a safe working environment for our staff, the children and young people and the communities that we work for. The organization prohibits harassment, exploitation and abuses by or of any employee, supervisor, manager, child, young people, community, contractor, applicant, or other individual with whom SOS Children’s Villages employees come into contact by virtue of their work. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our prevention and protection against Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse policy. 

In addition, SOS Children’s Villages apply a zero-tolerance concerning any fraud situation. The organization does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. 

Successful candidates will have to submit a criminal record certificate, current within the last three years. In accordance with the organisation’s child protection policy, these positions will be subject to criminal record checks. 

For more information about our work please visit : Our work - SOS Children's Villages International (sos-childrensvillages.org)