COO Sustainability Intern

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As part of our team, you’ll work in a dynamic, international environment where you learn at a fast pace and be hands-on from the start. Our ambition is to help build a healthy and sustainable society for the Netherlands. A central part of our mission is providing an end to end sustainable operations services while reducing our own operations carbon footprint. You’ll be part of the team exploring, investigating and implementing our reporting structure. It’s an opportunity to learn about sustainability and be a part of a fresh team continuously learning.

An internship at ING is the ideal opportunity to meet a wide variety of people, start to build up your own network, and learn about many different aspects of business – which all adds up to a great start for the rest of your career!

Internships at the COO Retail Sustainability Department

A newly established, Sustainability team within COO Retail domain contributes to ING’s Global sustainability strategy which is at the core of what we do and how we do it. Our main purpose is to become net-zero well before 2050. We do this by implementing the most effective methodology to assess and improve our core banking operations processes through sustainability as well as creating a knowledge sharing platform across the world to ensure we share best practices and learn from each other to accelerate our contribution to planet Earth. Our interns are the key players in designing and implementing our COO sustainability strategy in the countries and globally.

Internship opportunity: COO Retail Sustainability

Currently there is an opportunity for a six month internship within our team, supporting the activities of the Sustainability in operations. We focus on applying climate action to our banking operations processes. The team also contributes INGs own environmental footprint reduction programme by accelerating prioritization and actions in the countries.

The internship is on a full-time basis, with flexibility to ensure students are meeting ongoing study requirements.

What will your main tasks be?

• Support in the collection and analysis of environmental footprint data. Support activities to engage colleagues to improve our environmental footprint, including through campaigns.
• Support in the integration of climate action objectives into COO Banking operations
• Manage and develop the internal COO Sustainability Intranet community and support other countries that are developing their own communities. Work closely with communications to share news internally through the community.
• Provide administrative support to COO Green Guild meetings, various events, meetings, calls, reporting, project coordination activities, and project reporting Provide administrative support to various events, meetings, calls, reporting, project coordination activities, and project reporting.