Global Foundations Intern

Are you looking for an internship opportunity with one of the world’s largest international NGOs and are you passionate about building partnerships and supporting the displacement cause? If the answer is yes, you could be one of our new interns for the spring semester.

Who are we?

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) ranks as one of the best NGOs in the world, doing humanitarian work in 40 countries around the globe. DRC projects are often funded or co-funded through partnerships with private foundations. Our partnerships are growing in numbers and size, and we have ambitions to develop this further. The Global Foundations team is responsible for strengthening DRC’s capacity to establish, maintain and grow these partnerships and increase funding from these partners. We’re now looking for an intern interested in supporting us in the process.
 

About the Global Foundations internship

You will join a dynamic team located in Copenhagen, Brussels, and London, actively collaborating with units across the organization. In this role, you will take on your own set of responsibilities while also contributing to critical support functions. Your internship with the Global Foundations team will focus on the following main areas:

• Conduct research and analysis on trends in philanthropy
• Research and mapping of foundations engaged in DRC areas of work
• Support with conducting due diligence of potential donors
• Produce partnership materials, including development of slide decks
• Track engagement with foundations across DRC
• Coordinate input for internal quarterly foundations updates
• Support Global Foundations Partnership Advisors with partnership development and maintenance activities
• Provide administrative support
• Help maintain internal communication sites and develop structures on internal workspaces
• Organise meetings and produce and distribute meeting minutes
• Ad hoc support

Additionally, you’ll have the opportunity to delve into various learning opportunities. We offer flexibility in the type of tasks, so you also have the possibility to influence your internship, subject to what is relevant to your study program, experience, and interests.

About you

To be successful in these roles we expect you to be flexible, eager to learn, and proactive. All employees and interns at DRC should master DRC's core competencies: Communicating, Taking the lead, Collaborating, Striving for excellence and Demonstrating integrity.

Required

• Enrolled in a graduate level University degree in International Relations, Social Science, Political Science, International Development, Humanitarian Aid, or other relevant degree for the duration of the internship
• Fluency in written and spoken English is required since you will be working with both Danish and international foundations. Danish proficiency is highly advantageous.
• Interest in learning more about working in an international NGO
• Have an interest in partnerships, fundraising, donor engagement, donor compliance and/or how NGOs fund their operations
• Be able to work independent and systematically with a good structure and a focus on high quality, solving tasks in your area of responsibility
• Have good interpersonal and communication skills in a multicultural environment
• Proficient user of Microsoft Office 365, Canva and/or other software.

Desired

• Knowledge of international and humanitarian and development funding, and NGO fundraising/partnership engagement
• Working knowledge of written and spoken Danish, German or French.
• Layout/editing skills is an advantage

People with a migration or refugee background are highly encouraged to apply.

We offer

Contract length: six months subject to study requirements and further discussion.

Workplace: DRC Headquarters at Lyngbyvej 100, 2100 Copenhagen. Remote work is also an option upon agreement with supervisor.

Start date: Mid-January or start February 2026 (flexible)

Working hours: Approximately 30 hours per week, subject to study requirements and further dialogue. We offer flexibility when you have study obligations.

The internship is unpaid. We offer:

• Two unpaid - vacation days per month. The days can either be spent as you earn them or accumulated.
• Free lunch in our canteen (subject to our canteen being open)

Application process

All applicants must send a cover letter, an updated CV in English as well as documentation that you are enrolled in a university. If you are applying for more than one internship with DRC, please indicate so in your cover letter.  Apply online on our Current Vacancies page at drc.ngo.

Closing date for applications: November 10th  2025. We expect to conduct interviews mid-November via Teams.

We reserve the right to close for applications before the deadline and will review applications on a rolling basis.

Further information

For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website drc.ngo.