Internship - Community Engagement & Biodiversity

Job Description

WindEurope is the voice of the wind industry, actively promoting wind energy across Europe. We have over 600 members from across the whole value chain of wind energy.

We are looking for an Intern to strengthen our Advocacy & Messaging team made up of 5 people.

You will be responsible for helping WindEurope deepen its knowledge and build up data about community engagement, and how biodiversity and wind energy coexist. You will also help to organise the first ever Fast & Fair Renewables award which will be given to the best community engagement wind farm this year. You will report to the Senior Advisor - Environment & Community Engagement.

WindEurope is a team of passionate people from all over the globe coming together to make a meaningful impact in shaping the future of wind and renewable energy. We are all based at the heart of the European Union in Brussels, Belgium.

WindEurope's culture is built around transparency, wellbeing, and inclusion. These values are not just aspirational-they are actively embedded in our policies. We promote a proactive growth mindset, encouraging employees to take ownership of their career paths, embrace feedback, and view failure as a learning opportunity. Teamwork and continuous improvement/learning are key to us: an up and down feedback culture where everyone is encouraged to share ideas and grow in a climate of trust, weekly 1-1 between employees and managers, and internal and external training for which each employee has a yearly budget are part of our DNA.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Lead the development of a best-practice community engagement booklet and the communications around it for the Fast & Fair award
• Analyse legislative developments related to local taxation for wind farms and community engagement at European and national level.
• Develop a good-practice database on how onshore wind and biodiversity happily coexist.
• Compile European environmental legislation on nature and onshore wind energy.
• Populate WindEurope's existing tools on wind energy permitting.

Mindset and skills qualifications

• Creative, open-minded and innovative.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and when presenting.
• Good analytical skills.
• Hunger for learning new skills and knowledge.
• Positive mindset.

Experience

• Master's degree in the field of political sciences, energy or environment (or equivalent job experience).
• Previous professional experience is a plus.

Software

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word).

Languages

• Very good level of English (written and spoken)
• Any other EU language is a plus.

Offer

• Remunerated internship with meal vouchers & reimbursement of public transport.
• Multicultural/Open-minded and stimulating environment.
• Hybrid work arrangement (2 days per week from home).

WindEurope is an equal opportunity employer.

The recruitment process is made of a first exchange on the phone followed by two (in person or online) interviews with the manager, HR and a head of division.

Note: only short-listed candidates will be contacted 3 weeks post-deadline.