Eight new roles opened this week, one each in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, Laos, the United States, Luxembourg and Spain, and they reach unusually high. Two sit inside the UN itself: a communications internship with the UNDP programme clearing unexploded ordnance in Laos, the most heavily bombed country per capita on earth, and a civil society outreach internship at UN Global Communications in New York. Alongside them, a Programme Manager job leading the ILO's Vision Zero Fund in Geneva, an Associate Investment Officer job at the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg, a paid solar physics research placement in Germany, a paid NGO communications internship in Italy, an app developer internship in the Netherlands, and a volunteer coordinator role on Gran Canaria. Six internships and two senior jobs, from a photonics lab bench to a bomb clearance programme.
The funding varies and we list only what each states. The German research placement pays €992 a month, the Italian NGO internship €600, and the Dutch app developer role €100 a month as an Erasmus+ internship. The two jobs at the ILO and EIB are senior salaried positions, while the UN internships in Laos and New York offer experience at an organisation most CVs never reach rather than a stated wage. The deadlines run from now to 31 July 2026.
What's in this batch:
6 Internships · 2 Jobs · 8 Countries · Deadlines from Now to 31 July 2026
🟠 Internships & Jobs
🇩🇪 Germany: Photovoltaic Materials and Photonic Nanostructures Research ☀️
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible
Solar cells are not just chemistry, they are optics, and this lab is redesigning how light reaches the absorber. Fabricate chalcopyrite photovoltaic absorbers by vapor deposition or printing, optimise transparent conductive oxides, investigate photonic nanostructures and micro concentrators, and characterise optical, electrical and thermal properties. Paid at €992 a month. Redesign how sunlight becomes electricity.
🇨🇭 Switzerland: Programme Manager Leading the Vision Zero Fund at the ILO 🦺
📅 Deadline: 26 July 2026
A G7 launched, G20 endorsed fund exists to stop people dying at work in global supply chains, and this role leads it. Take on overall management of operations, budget, staff and country programmes, policy advice on occupational safety and health, secretarial support to the Steering and Advisory Committees, donor relations and resource mobilization, and representing the Fund with governments and social partners. Lead a fund whose whole purpose is keeping workers alive.
🇳🇱 Netherlands: App Developer for Online Marketplace Brands 💻
📅 Deadline: 27 July 2026
Build the storefronts, the automations and the chatbots behind a portfolio of brands selling on Amazon and beyond. Work with Python, WordPress and Shopify, React front ends, OpenAI API integrations, Google Apps Script automations and AI language models, plus unlimited online marketing courses and coaching from an experienced colleague. An Erasmus+ internship paying €100 a month. Ship real code behind real brands, with AI in the stack.
🇮🇹 Italy: Digital Content and Communication Campaigns at an International NGO 📱
📅 Deadline: 28 July 2026
An NGO running 166 projects across more than 20 countries needs its campaigns to land with the Italian public. Build campaign concepts in creative brainstorms, produce social posts, infographics and banners, manage editorial calendars across website, social and newsletters, write original copy, and cover report launches, press conferences and festivals live. Paid at €600 a month. Make a 20 country NGO's work land at home.
🇱🇦 Laos: Communication and Reporting for the UNDP Unexploded Ordnance Programme 💬
📅 Deadline: 28 July 2026
Laos is the most heavily bombed country per capita on earth, and this internship sits inside the UN programme working to clear it. Produce progress reports, briefing notes and policy notes for the UXO portfolio, support monitoring and evaluation, draft concept notes for funding, and create communication materials from data visualizations to case studies and press releases. Tell the story of a country clearing its own war.
🇺🇸 United States: Civil Society Outreach and Events at UN Global Communications, New York 🤝
📅 Deadline: 30 July 2026
Civil society organisations get into UN high level events through a process, and this internship runs the machinery behind it. Screen registration applications, analyse registration statistics into infographic reports, compile submissions for the Civil Society newsletter, design social cards, flyers and RSVP forms, and support the NGLS annual report and event logistics. Open the UN's doors to civil society, from the inside.
🇱🇺 Luxembourg: Associate Investment Officer at the European Investment Bank 📊
📅 Deadline: 30 July 2026
Private equity and infrastructure funds do not just end, they are wound down deliberately, and this role manages that phase. Own a portfolio through disinvestment and liquidation, represent the Bank on fund advisory committees, negotiate event resolutions and divestments, run secondary sales, and review valuations and scorings. The unglamorous, high stakes end of fund management.
🇪🇸 Spain: Volunteer Coordinator and Project Support at an Eco Resilience Programme 🌱
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
Organise international volunteering projects while living and working on Gran Canaria with the Route 66 Foundation. Coordinate volunteers, welcome new participants, run activities and community events, and support hands on eco projects for biodiversity and sustainability. Run the projects, on a Canary Island.
Eight roles, eight countries, and a ceiling set higher than usual. The UN thread is the standout, from a communications internship inside the UNDP programme clearing unexploded bombs in Laos to civil society outreach at UN Global Communications in New York, joined by two senior jobs at the ILO in Geneva and the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg. Around them sit the paid entry points: solar physics research in Germany at €992 a month, NGO communications in Italy at €600, and app development in the Netherlands as an Erasmus+ internship, plus a volunteer coordinator role on Gran Canaria. The German placement is open now on a rolling basis, and the rest close between 26 and 31 July 2026. Find the one that matches your field, and get your application in before the window shuts.
