🇫🇷 Learning Communities Animation Intern 🤝 AFD Group Campus Internship in Marseille, France 🎓

The Campus of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group is recruiting an intern to animate its learning communities in Marseille, France. This is a 6-month internship, with a desired start in early 2027, and applications must be sent before 10 November 2026. At Youth Works Hub, we reviewed the full offer and set out every mission, skill and condition below.

About the Campus Groupe AFD

The Campus Groupe AFD is a laboratory of innovative training for people committed to transitions towards more impact around the world. It is an original training centre that supports change-makers in their own countries, for a world that is more inclusive, fairer and more sustainable.

Through innovative approaches, and as an alternative to top-down teaching models, the Campus develops knowledge, know-how and interpersonal skills, and inspires people to take action. It is based in Marseille and Paris and works with colleagues and partners of the AFD Group around the world. The team puts its energy and technical expertise at the service of impact projects through transformational pedagogy, peer communities, collective intelligence and digital tools.

The Internship at a Glance

🏷️ Role: Learning Communities Animation Intern (Campus Groupe AFD)

🏢 Organisation: Agence Française de Développement (AFD Group)

📍 Location: Marseille, France

⏱️ Duration: 6 months, mandatory

🗓️ Desired start: Early 2027

🎓 Requirement: Enrolment in a higher-education institution that can sign an internship agreement

🗣️ Writing languages: French and English

🔖 Reference: req10750

What Your Role Is About

Within the Campus of the AFD Group, the intern designs, deploys and animates learning schemes that help to structure, animate and network internal and partner stakeholders, mainly alumni.

You actively contribute to developing learning communities aligned with the strategic priorities of the Group, you help strengthen the relational communication of the AFD, and you facilitate collaborative dynamics, cross-team dialogue and the circulation of knowledge.

Working on international cooperation, training and transitions, you help to bring to life several communities of learning and practice that bring together development professionals, experts, alumni and partners of the AFD Group.

You are fully integrated into the team and take part in varied missions that mix communication, network animation, event organisation and project management, with specific and recurring missions described below.

Mission 1: Animating the Network of Campus Referents

You help to keep alive an international community of training referents:

✉️ Writing the monthly newsletter

🐝 Animating La Ruche, the collaborative platform of the Campus, with one piece of content published per week

🌟 Producing inspiring portraits of community members

🔭 Monitoring and producing useful, shareable content every week

🗓️ Updating the training calendar

🧑‍🏫 Co-organising and co-animating the quarterly workshops of the Campus Referents, including writing and distributing the minutes

Mission 2: Developing the MODEV Alumni Community

You take part in animating a network of more than 650 alumni, present in many partner countries:

💼 Animating the LinkedIn community: monitoring, posts and alumni portraits

🎉 Contributing to the organisation of the 20th anniversary of MODEV in 2027, with events, workshops and a directory of graduates, in all territories including Marseille

💬 Animating the exchange spaces, such as WhatsApp and ambassador networks

🌱 Supporting events in the territories, such as Fresques du Climat (Climate Fresk workshops) and alumni meetings

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Mission 3: Keeping the Campus Meta-Community Alive

You help to unite the different communities of the Campus Groupe AFD:

🗂️ Supporting the management and updating of the community databases

📣 Organising events and webinars

📦 Preparing logistics: speakers, invitations, collaborative tools and more

🤲 Co-animating co-development sessions, including writing and distributing the minutes

🧭 Leading the consolidation of the Campus alumni database

Mission 4: Promoting the Training "Animer une communauté"

You take part in developing a training course dedicated to community animation professionals:

📬 Answering requests for information and promoting the training

🛠️ Supporting the organisation of the sessions before, during and after

📚 Updating the teaching materials, such as the booklet and Padlet

📈 Following up the evaluations and animating the network of former participants

What You Will Contribute To

Through these missions, you help to strengthen the communities of the Campus, to develop the relational communication of the AFD Group and to bring out new collaborations around the major challenges of sustainable development.

Where This Internship Puts You

The internship lets you work at the interface of several fields, in a stimulating environment:

📋 Project management

👥 Community animation

✍️ Communication

🎪 Events

💡 Collective intelligence

🎓 Pedagogical engineering

Skills Required

🧩 Multidisciplinary skills in project management and communication

💻 Command of IT tools, data management tools and social networks

📝 Excellent writing in French and in English

🖥️ Knowledge, or better mastery, of the digital tools used for community animation, such as Excel, Canva and Zoom

Qualities Required

🤗 Excellent interpersonal skills and well-developed emotional intelligence

🔄 Versatility, autonomy, strong adaptability, initiative, dynamism and a proactive attitude

🎤 Very good written and spoken expression, and ease with public speaking

🔍 Rigour in analysis and attention to detail

Experience That Is a Plus

Other appreciated skills are experience in knowledge management and pedagogical engineering, in animating working groups and capitalisation schemes, and in managing partner networks of experts.

Conditions of the Internship

⏳ Duration: 6 months, mandatory, in Marseille

📄 The internship agreement must be produced by an educational institution, such as a university or a grande école

🇪🇺 European universities are accepted

Visa and Enrolment Requirement

The intern must hold a French work visa and must be enrolled in a higher-education institution that allows an internship agreement to be established.

Inclusion at the AFD Group

The AFD Group is particularly attentive to inclusion in all its forms: gender, disability, geographical diversity and equal opportunities. It takes these into account at each stage of the selection.

How Candidates Are Selected

Interviews, in person or by video conference, are organised with a selection of candidates, for a desired start in early 2027.

Why Join the French Development Agency

Joining the AFD means contributing to the construction of a common world, which is the mission of the Group. A world in common is a world that preserves and defends five great common goods:

🪐 The planet

🤝 The social bond

🕊️ Peace

🔗 Partnerships

📊 Economic prosperity

More About the Campus

The offer points to three resources to learn more about the Campus: the training catalogue of the Campus Groupe AFD, the online platform Mooc-Campus, and the Campus LinkedIn page. Their addresses are listed in the Links section below. If you are looking for more placements like this one, browse the Youth Works Hub internship section.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is the AFD Campus internship based?

The internship takes place in Marseille, France. The Campus is based in Marseille and Paris and works with AFD Group colleagues and partners around the world.

How long does the internship last and when does it start?

The internship lasts a mandatory 6 months. The desired start is early 2027.

What will I do as a Learning Communities Animation Intern?

You will animate the network of Campus Referents, develop the MODEV alumni community of more than 650 members, keep the Campus meta-community alive and promote the training "Animer une communauté". Tasks include writing a monthly newsletter, animating the LinkedIn community, organising events and webinars, and updating databases and teaching materials.

Who can apply?

The intern must hold a French work visa and be enrolled in a higher-education institution that can establish an internship agreement. The agreement must be produced by an educational institution such as a university or a grande école, and European universities are accepted.

Which languages do I need?

The offer asks for excellent writing in French and in English, and very good written and spoken expression.

Which digital tools should I know?

The offer asks for knowledge, or better mastery, of the digital tools used for community animation, such as Excel, Canva and Zoom. It also asks for command of IT tools, data management tools and social networks.

How are candidates selected?