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Join SEI HQ’s Communications, Learning and Impact Division as an intern and contribute SEI’s strategic journey on results, learning and impact. You will support SEI’s global work in knowledge management, impact thinking, monitoring and evaluation, and organizational learning.
SEI has launched its 2025–29 Strategy, which combines continuity with renewal. It builds on SEI’s legacy, value and achievements while adapting our research agenda to a rapidly changing world.
To put this strategy into practice, SEI uses a dedicated results and learning framework (RALF). RALF helps prioritize work, guides organizational learning with staff and partners, and ensures accountability to donors and stakeholders. Central to this exciting journey is strengthening SEI’s organizational learning across global centers, integrating impact thinking into project design and management, and clearly assessing and demonstrating SEI’s impact.
As an intern, you will join SEI HQ’s Result and Learning team within the Communications, Learning and Impact Division and provide hands-on support by assisting with reviews, research, system management and workshop support.
Your main tasks will include:
We are looking for someone with a clear interest or experience in transformative learning, monitoring and evaluation, change management, and/or sustainable development.
You are motivated to find solutions to complex issues, driven by curiosity and a commitment to learning, and eager to make a positive impact. You thrive in a collaborative environment and can prioritize tasks and move them forward. Experience in transformative learning for sustainable development is a plus.
You may undertake this internship as part of a master’s thesis. If so, please state your study program and research topic in your cover letter.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, so please submit your application as soon as possible, and no later than 19 April 2026, 23:59 (Stockholm time).
Applications should be written in English and include a short CV and cover letter (maximum one page).
Please include in your cover letter:
Your CV should include one reference (name, affiliation and contact details).
Before applying, please review SEI HQ’s internship requirements. Our internships form part of students’ academic studies and require external funding and insurance. Full information at the page below:
Internship / Learn how internships at SEI HQ work, including eligibility, funding requirements and internship periods.
At SEI, we focus on delivering tangible results that drive environmental sustainability and social equity. Our research is designed to create lasting change.
Stockholm Environment Institute is an international non-profit research institute that tackles climate, environment and sustainable development challenges.
We empower partners to meet these challenges through cutting-edge research, knowledge, tools and capacity building. Scientific quality and integrity are foundations of our work. Partnership is at the heart of our approach, leading to change that lasts.
Our work connects science to policy and practice, aiming to drive tangible impacts. It spans climate change, natural resources, water, air, and health, and addresses questions of governance, innovation, finance, poverty, gender equality and social equity.
We are committed to transparency and full disclosure of our funding. The Government of Sweden is our largest funder, and we also receive funds from a range of public research funders, philanthropic foundations, bilateral and multilateral development agencies, governments, NGOs and other partners.
Through SEI’s HQ and seven centres around the world, we engage with policy, practice and development action for a sustainable, prosperous future for all.
At SEI, we focus on delivering tangible results that drive environmental sustainability and social equity. Our research is designed to create lasting change.
Internship / Learn how internships at SEI HQ work, including eligibility, funding requirements and internship periods.
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