COO Sustainability Intern

ING is offering a six-month full-time internship for a COO Sustainability Intern in North Holland, Netherlands. The role involves supporting sustainability efforts in banking operations, analyzing environmental footprint data, and engaging colleagues in climate action initiatives. Interns will help implement sustainability strategies and contribute to reducing ING's carbon footprint while gaining valuable experience in a dynamic, international environment focused on building a sustainable society.
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.

Your profile
• Master or Bachelor (third year bachelor) student with high interest in Sustainability/ Sustainable Development, Banking Operations, Data Analysis, Communication and societal issues
• Strong organisational/project management skills
• Problem analysis and judgment
• Ability to work in an international environment
• High ambition/ energy level
• Teamwork
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Fluency in business English is required and oral proficiency in Dutch preferre
• Ability to work under pressure, without losing your sense of humour!

Rewards and benefits

This is a great opportunity to train with highly skilled people who are experts in their field. You’ll do a lot and learn a lot – not only about your specialist area and the bank, but also about yourself and whether this type of environment is right for you.

You’ll also benefit from:

• Internship allowance

• Your own work laptop • Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

What can you expect?

You can expect a challenge, as we offer you the opportunity to immediately integrate in the Sustainability team. You will participate in research, organising events, supporting stakeholder relations, communications, and project management. You will operate in a highly dynamic and international working environment. To support your work you will get the opportunity to attend various internal events and learning opportunities. All these items will contribute to a strong personal development and leadership.

Ready to apply?

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At ING we value and support our employees before recruiting external talent. If you think this vacancy is the right next step in your ING career, we’d encourage you to apply. Should you have questions about the vacancy or need to hear more before you feel you can apply. Please do not hesitate to reach out to the responsible recruiter.