Urban Development, Housing and Solid Waste Management Intern

This unpaid full-time internship supports UN-Habitat’s emerging Angola programme from Luanda. The intern will assist urban-development, housing and solid-waste initiatives through project design, fieldwork, data analysis, stakeholder outreach and communications, helping develop sustainable, inclusive and resilient urban solutions with municipalities, communities and partner organisations.

• Identify community opportunities and translate problems into project concepts
• Support meetings with potential partners and donors
• Track indicators and monitor reports and partner feedback
• Assist with layouts, engineering calculations, drawings and site inspections
• Collect and analyse waste-stream, generation and disposal data
• Support recycling and circular-economy initiatives with municipalities and local stakeholders

• Be enrolled in a graduate programme, final year of a first university degree, or have completed a Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD programme
• Computer literacy in Microsoft Office Suite
• Fluent oral and written Portuguese

• Portuguese and French communication skills
• English communication skills
• Adobe Illustrator, photo-editing or video-editing software
• Familiarity with circular economy, recycling and sustainable waste disposal

• Urban Development
• Housing Policy
• Solid Waste Management
• Data Analysis
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Community Mobilisation
• Project Design
• Circular Economy

• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint

• In-person or hybrid internship in Luanda
• Interns are responsible for travel, visa, accommodation and living costs