Vacancy True Price Internship

Do you want to make a real impact with your analytical skills? Do you want to contribute to a more sustainable and inclusive economy? Are you driven to make a difference in the world by helping companies accelerate change in the agrifood, retail, and other sectors? Do you want to develop yourself in the growing field of impact measurement and be part of an ambitious and driven organization?

We are currently looking for a motivated intern to join our team to support our projects and products. As an intern at True Price team, you will be trained to become a junior impact analyst. If desired – you can also combine multiple specializations. Examples of projects you may contribute to include:

  • Product level impact measurement for a supermarket
  • Developing technology to scale up true pricing, like databases and platforms
  • Determining a strategy to decrease external costs at farmers
We are hiring a true price analyst intern

Activities

  • You work closely with your team members focusing on several topics and will be working on internal and client projects with regular team check-ins. At the start, you will do supplementary analysis under close supervision, as it involves client work. Soon you will get more responsibilities and support throughout all phases of a project’s cycle.
  • You support our projects by:
    • Contributing to quantitative analyses on environmental and social costs based on primary and secondary data.
    • Collaborate with project teams to assist in the preparation of sustainability reports and true price assessments
    • Conducting economic and business analyses to formulate and assess projects that companies can do to profitably improve their impact
    • Support in the development and implementation of data collection methodologies and tools.
    • Working together with our data, software and research teams

What do we offer?

  • A dynamic, flexible and stimulating working environment with a professional and young culture.
  • A 6-month full-time internship, 32-40 hours per week
  • Active coaching, regular training (onboarding, team training, consulting training, etc) and supervision
  • Access to a strong network (partner-organizations, board members)
  • A compensation of €450 per month for interns with a completed Bachelor’s degree, €685 per month for Interns with a completed Master’s degree and commuting costs up to €275 per month, based on a fulltime internship
  • Perspective on a job in case of excellent performance
  • Functional work areas: Impact, Sustainability, Strategy, Economics, Environment, Life cycle assessment and Finance.
  • Additional benefits: Laptop

 

Your profile

You are looking for a hands-on professional experience in a stimulating environment, where you will learn a lot and get the opportunity to work on projects that have an impact. You want an internship at a social enterprise that works based on solid analysis, sustainable innovation and transparency. You are looking for an opportunity to learn about and contribute to a cutting-edge field that meets a fast-growing demand among private, public and non-governmental sector organizations worldwide.

  • Completed Bachelor’s degree and working towards a Master’s degree
  • Completed BSc degree and working towards a MSc degree.
  • Sustainability and/or quantitative background or proven interest (coursework in sustainability, econometrics, statistics, mathematics, physics, information sciences, life cycle assessment and/or industrial ecology).
  • Affinity with sustainable development, business consulting, economics, social or environmental sciences.
  • Ability to work hard in a professional setting.
  • Ambitious person with a drive to improve the world.
  • Independent, accurate, results-oriented and problem solver.
  • Ability to communicate about technical issues to people without a technical background.
  • Experience with programming and databases is a plus.
  • Ability to write in English at an academic level. Dutch fluency is a plus.

Are you ready?

If you recognize yourself in the above, we welcome you to apply for our Internship program by sending your resume, cover letter and list of grades to recruitment@impactinstitute.com.

We prefer to have direct contact with our applicants, therefore we do not work with intermediaries, such as recruitment agencies.

About True Price

True Price is a social enterprise. Our mission is to empower organisations and individuals to realise the impact economy. We are a movement of consumers, businesses, and institutions that take action in incorporating environmental and social costs in prices. We envision a world where all products are sold for a true price to enable a sustainable global economy. True Price is a sister organization of Impact Institute.