Partnership Programme Assistant and Support Internship at Greenpeace

The partnership assistant role will be to support the Strategic and Creative Partnerships team by undertaking certain tasks including and not limited to:

• Receiving all incoming partnership requests, update/capture these details into the requests database.
• Research organisations/grassroots/key influencers to gather all information and identify existing and past projects/events as well as potential risk.
• Support during event and activity planning such as the Climate Justice Movement launches in the various regions by actively assisting with the needs of the team such as various admin tasks; emailing, assisting with internal coordination of stakeholders, attending meetings, attending the events and information gathering.
• Capture all meeting notes and follow up on action points with guidance from team members. 
• Fluent in English and French (both written and spoken) – to assist with interpretations and translation of documents such as; MOUs, project TORs and other documentation when required. 
• Identifying opportunities for partner work on campaigns as well as independent projects.
• Compulsory attendance of all partnership meetings, including planning, strategic and feedback meetings as well as potential partner introductory meetings and Global online meetings if and when required.
• Must be based in one of the regions within the Greenpeace Africa network and where we currently have an office.

Job Description and principal accountabilities:

• General administration task to support the GPAF Partnerships team. The team focus is Strategic partners as well as Creative partners.
• Work closely with the team to provide timely data capture of incoming requests and data collection of information into all databases.
• Undertake to perform quick and important research and vetting of partners as requested by the partnerships team and be able to collect this data within existing workflows established.
• Support partnerships team in activity/event planning by setting up meetings with other stakeholders and to capture all meeting notes, action points and other business discussed.
• Send a weekly reminder of action points to the partnerships team for follow up and reminders to be actioned by the partnerships team.
• Assist with interpretations and translations of various agreement documentation such as MOU’s and TOR’s for all partnerships work