Environmental Sustainability Intern

As part of our team, you’ll work in a dynamic, international environment where you learn at a fast pace and are hands-on from the start. Our ambition is to help build a healthy and sustainable society for the Netherlands. A central part of our mission is providing end-to-end sustainable operations services while reducing our own operational carbon footprint. You’ll be part of the team exploring, investigating, and implementing our reporting structure. It’s an opportunity to learn about sustainability and be part of a fresh team continuously learning.

An internship at ING is the ideal opportunity to meet a wide variety of people, start to build your own network, and learn about many different aspects of business – all of which adds up to a great start for the rest of your career!

The team

A newly established Sustainability team within the WB COO domain contributes to ING’s global sustainability strategy, which is at the core of what we do and how we do it. Our main purpose is to become net-zero well before 2050. We achieve this by implementing the most effective methodology to assess and improve our core banking operations processes through sustainability, as well as creating a knowledge-sharing platform across the world to ensure we share best practices and learn from each other to accelerate our contribution to planet Earth. Our interns are key players in designing and implementing our COO sustainability strategy both locally and globally.

Internship Opportunity: COO Sustainability

Currently, there is an opportunity for a six-month internship within our team, supporting the activities of Sustainability in operations. We focus on applying climate action to our banking operations processes. The team also contributes to ING’s own environmental footprint reduction programme by accelerating prioritization and actions in the countries.

The internship is on a full-time basis, with flexibility to ensure students are meeting ongoing study requirements.

Roles and responsibilities

• Support in the collection and analysis of environmental footprint data.
• Analyze data to identify trends and areas for improvement in our CO2 footprint.
• Engage colleagues to improve our environmental footprint, including through campaigns.
• Support the integration of climate action objectives into COO Banking operations.
• Manage and develop the internal COO Sustainability Intranet community and support other countries in developing their own communities. Work closely with communications to share news internally through the community.
• Provide administrative support to Green Guild meetings (functional domain which consists of country representatives across the globe), various events, meetings, calls, reporting, project coordination activities, and project reporting.

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

• Master or Bachelor (third-year bachelor) student with strong skills in Data Analysis, and a high interest in Sustainability / Sustainable Development, Communication.
• A genuine interest in environmental issues.
• Strong organizational/project management skills.
• Problem analysis and judgment.
• Attention to detail (accuracy).
• Ability to work in an international environment.
• High ambition/energy level.
• Teamwork.
• Perseverance (flexible hours).
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Fluency in business English is required
• Able to work in Amsterdam.
• Ability to work under pressure without losing your sense of humor

What can you expect?

You can expect a challenge, as we offer you the opportunity to immediately integrate into the Sustainability team. You will participate in research, organizing events, supporting stakeholder relations, communications, and project management. You will operate in a highly dynamic and international working environment. To support your work, you will have the opportunity to attend various internal events and learning opportunities. All these experiences will contribute to strong personal development and leadership.

Rewards and benefits

This is a great opportunity to train with highly skilled people who are experts in their field. You’ll do a lot and learn a lot – not only about your specialist area and the bank, but also about yourself and whether this type of environment is right for you.

You’ll also benefit from:

• Internship allowance of 700 EUR based on a 36 hours work week

• Your own work laptop

• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

During the duration of your internship at ING, it is mandatory to be enrolled at a Dutch university (or EU-university for EU passport holders).

Questions?

Contact the recruiter attached to the advertisement. Want to apply directly? Please upload your CV and motivation letter by clicking the ‘Apply’ button.

About our internships

Every year, more than 350 students join our internship program. While there are no guarantees about your future, many of our former interns move into a permanent role or onto our International Talent Programme (traineeship).

Whatever happens, an internship at ING is the ideal opportunity to meet a wide variety of people, to build up your own network, and to learn about many different aspects of banking – put simply, it’s a great start to your career.