Intern in the ESA Education Office - Inspiration and Education Outreach

Our team and mission

The intern position, Intern in the ESA Education Office - Inspiration and Education Outreach, concerns the ESA Education programme, in particular inspiration initiatives for 3- to 18-years-old children and school students, including: inspirational events, role modelling, career awareness initiatives, access to space experts for youth and their families to be attracted to space and STEM, and to understand their importance for society and economy. In doing so, address diversity and promote sustainability for a better future.

The intern position also involves communication and promotion activities of the ESA Education programme at large for all target groups (from early childhood to PhD levels) such as web and social media communication, video and goodie production, and event organisation.

• Location: ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
• Workplace: Noordwijk, NL
• Type of Appointment: Intern

Field(s) of activity for the internship

Within the Education Office, you will build experience in inspiration activities for school-level children and families, and in outreach activities for the education programme, such as:

• support the creation and organisation of inspirational events and informal education resources;
• User Experience/Interface (UX/UI) and Publications: web front-end towards user experience optimisation, writing and publishing of articles, social media posts, video scripts;
• other school level STEM education related tasks.

Learning areas: Web User experience (UX/UI), Informal STEM Education, Social media, Communication, event organisation.

Behavioural competencies

• Result Orientation
• Operational Efficiency
• Fostering Cooperation
• Relationship Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Forward Thinking

Education

You must be a university student, preferably in your final or second-to-last year of university course at Master's level. In addition, you must be able to prove that you will be enrolled at your university for the entire duration of the internship.

Additional requirements

The working languages of the Agency are English and French. A good knowledge of one of these is required. Knowledge of another ESA Member State language is an asset.

Knowledge of and/or experience in any of the following areas is a major asset:

• STEM subject knowledge;
• communication, science communication;
• content management systems and social media;
• basic video editing;
• event organisation;
• knowledge and background in both English and French is an asset.

During the recruitment process, the Agency may request applicants to undergo selection tests.

Nationality

Please note that applications are only considered from nationals of one of the following States: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Applicants from Canada as a Cooperating State can apply as well as those from Bulgaria, Croatia and Malta as European Cooperating States (ECS).