Internship Opportunity at the Esther Benjamin’s Trust Nepal (EBT-N)
Position: Intern
Appointment date: Mid of January, 2016 for 1 year
Duty station: Country Office of EBT-N, Satdobato, Lalitpur.
Organisational description:
The Esther Benjamins Trust is UK registered children’s charity that supports to rescue, cares for and educates trafficked children in Nepal. We also carry out anti-trafficking work in vulnerable communities, improving the quality of schools, prosecuting traffickers and running community education sessions.
Our main commitment is, and always has been, to ensure that every child we rescue has a safe home to return to. In our knowledge and experience, the outcomes for children who grow up in families are significantly better than in institutional care. We strengthened the families and helped many of the children to return home and re-establish their roots in their own villages. We continue to monitor them regularly once they are at home, and we provide help to their families so that they are able to support the returned children.
Responsibilities:
We are looking for intern who has interest in administration and documentations. Under technical supervision of the Senior Officers in programme, administrations and in close cooperation with the team members, the intern will:
 Assist in project implementation and day to day administration
 Assist in updating contacts and other information
 Support in preparing reports, photocopying, scanning etc.
 Assist in filing arrangement
 Assist in travel arrangement
 Support in the reception
 Make necessary arrangement for workshop, training and meetings
 Perform any other duties assigned to by the immediate supervisor
The applicant is expected to be able to work closely with a small team of EBT N and its partner organisations. S/he requires to be proactive and at ease for multitasking and teamwork.
Requirements:
 Bachelor’s degree in Business Studies, Economics, Business Administration or Social Sciences.
 Aged between 20 – 30 years
 Good interpersonal skills
 Good communication skills in written and spoken English and Nepali.
 MS Office package, internet and email use (essential)
 Have two wheelers valid driving license
 Knowledge and proficiency in computer, Nepali typing skills will be an added advantage
 Experience not required
Salary and allowance:
EBT Nepal will not provide any salary but will provide travel and field allowance if the intern is involved in official visit.
Application procedure:
This position is open for Nepali nationals. Application should be sent to ebtjob@gmail.com with a covering letter (explaining your interest to apply for the position); updated CV, scanned recent passport size photograph no later than 31 December, 2015.
Only short-listed candidates will be called for an interview. Inquiries on applicant’s status will not be
entertained and any effort to do so will result in disqualification of the applicant.
The Esther Benjamins Trust rescues, cares for and educates trafficked Nepali children – mainly children trafficked into India and forced to work in circuses. We also carry out anti-trafficking work in vulnerable communities – for example, improving the quality of schools, prosecuting traffickers and running community education sessions.
Our main commitment is, and always has been, to ensure that every child we rescue has a safe home to return to. Some rescued children were able to return to their families almost immediately, but by 2013, after more than a decade of rescues, we were accommodating 134 children in our refuge in Kathmandu. However, recent research has shown that living in a large institution is not in the best interests of the child: the outcomes for children who grow up in families are significantly better.
We therefore paused our rescue work, in order to focus on developing the skills of our staff to work intensively with the children and their families. They strengthened the families and helped many of the children to return home and re-establish their roots in their own villages. We continue to monitor them regularly once they are at home, and we provide help to their families so that they are able to support the returned children.