The Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism (FLRM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations welcomes students and recent graduates to join The Economics of Ecosystem Restoration (TEER) initiative.

The internship will offer an enriching and highly valuable experience in an international and multicultural working environment and the opportunity to supplement your academic knowledge with a practical experience with TEER. TEER is a multi-partner initiative to collect standardized data about the costs and benefits of ecosystem restoration worldwide. All TEER products are the result of online and in-person consultations conducted with a wide range of partner organizations coordinated by the FLRM.

The TEER oversaw the development of a standard framework and associated template for data collection and is now entering a data collection phase to grow its database using information from both current and past restoration projects. TEER interns will work with partners and assist project managers in applying the data collection template to a given set of projects, either from a particular region, institution, or ecosystem.

Interns are encouraged to up analyses of the data they will collect from their set of projects, either in peer-review articles or for their master thesis, in close collaboration with the direct TEER internship supervisor and members.

If you are interested, please create your profile on the FAO online recruitment system TALEO following the Quick Guide for Candidates and apply to the following Call for Expression on Interest published on the FAO employment website: Call For Expression Of Interest – HQ Internship Programme (Taleo Requisition No. 2102461).

Once you have applied, please send a copy of your Taleo application and the motivation letter to the FLRM at the following e-mail address: [email protected] by 31 December 2021.

Eligibility

To be considered for an internship with TEER, you must meet the following eligibility criteria:

• Age between 21 and 30.
• Education: students in their last or second-to-last year of a master's degree and recent graduates with maximum 2 years from graduation in technical fields of FAO such as forestry, ecology, biology, natural sciences, natural resources management, economics. Knowledge of ecosystem restoration is a plus. Please note that FAO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/.
• Be nationals of FAO Member Nations.
• Language knowledge: proficient in English. Fluency in French, Spanish, Arabic is an asset.
• Candidates should be able to adapt to an international multicultural environment and have good communication skills.
• Candidates with family members (defined as brother, sister, mother or father) employed by FAO under any type of contractual arrangement are not eligible for the Internship Programme.
• Candidates should have appropriate residence or immigration status in the proposed duty station prior to the start of the internship assignment.

Financial arrangement

FAO provides a monthly stipend to interns if they are not sponsored by releasing universities or other entities. Upon completing the review of submitted applications, only selected candidates will be contacted for an interview.

We look forward to hearing from you!