Internships
60% - 80%
Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
Start of employment: 01.09.2025 or earliest convenience
Time limitation: Six months as a minimum requirement, preferably 1 year
As the University's competence hub for sustainability transformations, the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) fosters interdisciplinary research, implementation and teaching concerned with transformation and sustainable development. We shape our research agenda in long-standing North-South partnerships, our emphasis being on transformative science and transdisciplinary approaches. Research is at the core of our activities. However, we also have a strong record of both, hands-on implementation, education for sustainable development as well as science-policy-society engagement.
The advertised positions will be working across a range of CDE projects, both in Switzerland and abroad.
- Desk research and information procurement
- Bibliography management
- Programming of surveys and preliminary data analysis
- Assistance in concept development
- Assistance in elaboration of funding proposals
- Assistance in developing tools and methodologies for our educational programmes
- Internal communication and collaboration with national and international project partners
- Translation of environmental policies into a gamified environment
Management support for the Directorate
- Coordination and documentation of various thematic and structural units or work in progress
- Administrative and management tasks (e.g. controlling, planning)
- Support of event planning (e.g. preparation and support of networking events, policy dialogue, etc.)
- Support with communication tasks, including with online communication and social media
- Organizing meetings and taking qualified minutes
- BSc or currently studying for a MSc in social sciences (economics, sociology, geography, political science, development studies, sustainable development); from the fields of humanities (educational science, psychology, linguistics, social anthropology) or in law;
- Knowledge and/or great interest in the fields of sustainability transformations (a.o. environmental policy, food systems, value chains, international agriculture, inequality, development economics, commons);
- Interest in developing pedagogical frameworks and didactic processing of sustainability problems;
- Affinity with data and graphics;
- Willingness to communicate and collaborate within an international and interdisciplinary team;
- Excellent communication skills in German and English, both in writing and direct communication; a second Swiss national language and/or Spanish are assets;
- Very good knowledge of the usual Office programs, online communication tools as well as basic statistics programmes. Experience with ArcGIS is an advantage.
- A learning space for competences in sustainability science and global development
- A well-networked, globally active, interdisciplinary team
- Insights into a broad range of research and implementation projects
- Perspectives to engage with partners from academia, civil society, the private sector and public administration
- Employment terms and salaries according to the guidelines of the Canton of Bern
- A flexible model of annual worktime
Start of employment: 1 September 2025 or earliest convenience
Time limitation: Six months as a minimum requirement, preferably 1 year
Application deadline: 9 May 2025
Interviews: The interviews will take place on 10 and 12 of June 2025
For more information: CDE Personaladministration personaladministration.cde(at)unibe.ch
CDE values diversity and is committed to equal opportunities; applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates who meet the stated criteria.
