Communications ASSISTANT FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM PROGRAMMES - 2025

4-6 months’ internship at the Foundation for Environmental Education

The Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) is looking for a communication intern that would like to work with our tourism-related environmental programmes, Blue Flag and Green Key, for 4-6 months from 20 January 2025 (exact dates can be flexible). The main areas of work will be communication and PR as well as tasks related to the dissemination of best practices of the two programmes.  

Main tasks and responsibilities 

1) Communication and PR 

Composing of news articles for website and social media

Development of newsletters

Social Media maintenance

Development of PR materials for the programme (for example, online brochures, infographics, animated videos)

2) Managing the dissemination of best practices  

Maintaining and extending the best-practice databases of the two programmes

Maintaining, extending and developing material for the Green Key online resource centre

Communicating with the FEE member organisations and other international partners to gather information and materials for the best practice databases of the two programmes

3) Development of material for the Blue Flag & Green Key toolboxes

Creation, collection, and revision of content (templates, documents, best practice examples, support material) for the Criteria Toolbox. The material of the Toolbox can be downloaded by the staff of establishments/sites as an assistance to their work.

4) Development of educational courses for Green Key 

Support to the creation and revision of content for educational courses for a) Green Key national auditors, b) Green Key national administration staff, and c) Green Key establishments staff. The educational courses are developed with the use of the Moodle platform of the FEE Academy

 5) Administrative tasks 

Taking care of ad-hoc administrative tasks such as database maintenance, response to general requests, etc.

Other office-related tasks

  Terms and conditions: 

Unpaid internship for a duration of a minimum of four months. It is encouraged that the internship is part of the internship requirements for students in the field of communication/marketing or in the hospitality industry, but it can also be part of a post-studies internship.

The intern will have to work 35 hours a week, including a 30 min lunch break.

English is the official language at the FEE Head Office

Additional information for the intern to be working from the FEE Head Office:

The intern is an EU/EEA/Nordic citizen or have a valid work permit in Denmark.

The intern will be working half time from the FEE Head Office and half time from home.

The intern will need a social security number in Denmark (which means that the applicant has to provide proof to the government that he/she has enough financial funds to sustain him/herself (see: https://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-GB/You-want-to-apply/Residence-as-a-Nordic-citizen-or-EU-or-EEA-citizen/EU-Self-support)

Holidays during the internship are confirmed by the intern’s supervisor and should be announced two weeks in advance.

 Required skills and experience 

Fluent in written and spoken English

The applicant should have a background or work experience in communications and marketing, and preferably also in sustainable tourism, sustainable development, or other sustainability-related fields of work

Experience with Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, preferably beyond the private level

Experience with design and content-editing programmes e.g., CANVA, Adobe software, and video-editing tools is strongly recommended

Experience with online course platforms (such as Moodle) is preferred

Precise and organised way of working

Proficient user of Microsoft Office package

Capability of working in a team as well as independently

Comfortable working in a multicultural environment

Application procedure 

1) Please send your CV and motivation letter via email by 10 November 2024 to: 

Finn Bolding Thomsen, finn@fee.global  

Johann Durand, johann@fee.global  

* Please send your application to both the email addresses above 

* Please write in the subject “Application for BF/GK Communications Assistant” 

 2) The short-listed applicants will be called for an interview on Zoom/Teams or in person at the FEE Head Office (evaluation process will take up to two weeks, depending on the volume of applications). 

 3) The successful applicant will be contacted.   

Please contact us at any time if you have any questions regarding the internship.  