As a federal enterprise, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development. We work in a variety of fields and support our cooperation partners in designing strategies and meeting their policy goals. GIZ Viet Nam is currently engaged in four priority areas: 1) Energy transition 2) Vocational training; 3) Economic development and private sector cooperation; 4) Environmental policy and sustainable natural resource use. Gender equality is one of the key values of our company and of the work we do. Fostering gender equality in our project operation and our internal equal opportunity provisions are two strategic pillars of our corporate identity and policy. For further information please visit our website: www.giz.de/viet-nam.
Within the Agriculture and Climate Team of GIZ’s Green Cluster (comprising all projects from priority area 2), projects with a focus on Vietnam as well as a number of regional initiatives are bundled. The team is distributed over three locations in Vietnam: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Can Tho.
The Agriculture and Climate Team in Hanoi is implementing the following projects:
- Sustainable Agriculture for Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) project, a flagship initiative under the newly established Team Europe Initiative (TEI) on Deforestation free Value Chains, aims at promoting a comprehensive transformation of the coffee supply chain in Vietnam towards sustainable, legal, and deforestation-free production, strengthening the capability of Vietnamese coffee products to enter and expand in the European market. This Project is EU co-funded.
- Agri-Photovoltaics for Rural Areas in Viet Nam (Agri-PV) has the objective to strengthen capacity and knowledge of key stakeholders for farmer friendly agri-photovoltaics development on agricultural land towards additional income for farmers.
- Innovative climate risk finance for the agricultural sector in the ASEAN region (AgriCRF) aims at promoting access of farmer to gender responsive climate risk finance product/services for agriculture sector in Asian region to help farmer enhancing resilience and less exposure from weather risk event.
- Promotion of sustainable agricultural value chains in ASEAN II (ASEAN AgriTrade II) aims that harmonisation measures for compliance with sustainability and quality standards in regional and global agricultural value chains have been implemented by member states of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN).
- Carbon Offsetting Rice Emissions (CORE) is a global initiative implemented in Viet Nam to support smallholder farmers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in rice production while creating access to carbon market opportunities and also fostering South–South cooperation through knowledge exchange across Asia and Africa.
The Agriculture and Climate Team in Ha Noi is offering an internship opportunity as follows:
National Intern
Office location: 14 Thuy Khue, Ha Noi
Duration: 6 months, starting from May 2026
During the internship, the Intern will learn and practice on the following areas:
- Implementation of the technical activities in Agriculture and Climate areas.
- Organization of internal and external meetings, project events
- Coordination and execution of the field monitoring activities, including data collection
- Content development of project’s communications products
- Communications activities, including website updates, social media campaigns, emails, press release and other media types.
- Translation services
Minimum Requirements:
- Vietnamese citizen who is either in their final year of university or has graduated within the past six months (at the start of the internship) with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in agriculture, environmental studies, development studies, economics, international business, or a related field.
- Proficiency in using MS office: Word, Excel, PPT
- Open minded, willing to learn new knowledge and dynamic work
- Self-motivated, can work independently, and willing to travel
- Good communication skills, interaction and facilitation skills
- Good English & Vietnamese command, written and spoken
- Good German written skill is an advantage
- Proficiency in creative tools is an advantage.
The successful candidates will enjoy professional and dynamic learning environment.
Interested qualified candidates are invited to send the following documents in English to Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Mai: [email protected] before 19th April 2026.
- Cover/Application letter explaining your motivation and qualification (max 400 words),
- Your CV
- Certificates (university and IELTS/or TOEFL) for evaluation – if available.
Note: Please state “Application for the Internship_Agri Team” in the subject line. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted after the deadline. Telephone contact is not encouraged.
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