Intern, Evaluations and Knowledge Management

Job Description

Educational level: Master degree (WO)

Deadline: February 16, 2026

Your role

As part of your internship, you will be involved in a variety of Knowledge Management related activities, including but not limited to the following:

• Assist the KM team in embedding new and existing knowledge management tools into organizational workflows and processes
• Help design and develop training materials, tutorial videos, guidance documents, newsletters, presentations, blogs, and learning modules to support tool adoption across the organization
• Contribute to the creation of best practice guides and communication materials to effectively onboard and support teams using new KM tools
• Develop and update SharePoint sites, knowledge hubs, pages, lists, news, and blogs
• Help to analyse and collate SharePoint usage metrics reports
• Review, test, and help improve KM products, quick wins, and solutions

A key focus of this internship will be supporting the rollout of FMO’s new lessons learned database. By the end of the internship, you will have developed practical skills in knowledge management, digital collaboration, and organizational learning, and contributed to a high-impact KM initiative. You will work closely with the KM team and receive regular coaching and feedback.

You will also have the opportunity to learn from regular activities related to Evaluations, including:

• Support the development of the scope and objectives of new evaluations, create communication products that fit the needs of different audiences, and plan follow-up activities together with the evaluation officers
• Source internal data and documentation
• Conduct analyses, interviews, and write up key findings
• Create presentations to share knowledge within the organization

In short, you will get a unique opportunity to critically investigate what FMO does, get in touch with a large part of the organization to obtain input and learn all about the intricacies of sustainable impact investing.

About our organization within the international scope

These are exciting times in the world of development finance. The world population is growing and so are many economies in the world, but many socio-economic and environmental realities do not make global economic development easy. At FMO, we believe in a world where, in 2050, more than nine billion people live well and within the means of the planet’s resources. The enduring effects of the COVID pandemic create an enormous additional challenge to our and the global development ambitions.

FMO’s strategy is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which help us focus on creating development impact with our activities. We particularly focus on SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), 10 (Reducing Inequalities) and 13 (Climate Action). At the Strategy Department we are looking for an intern to help us with our on-going projects, most of which focus on understanding and improving FMO’s business activities.

The team

This internship role will be within Strategy’s Evaluations and Knowledge Management team (EKM), supporting both sub-teams with their day-to-day work. We are eight members in the team, including our manager.

Within Knowledge Management (KM) at FMO, we work to:

• Support FMO’s transformation into a learning organization
• Promote effective knowledge sharing across teams and departments
• Facilitate collaboration through accessible and well-structured knowledge
• Contribute to the implementation of FMO’s strategic goals through knowledge-driven practices

Within Evaluations at FMO, we work to:

• Contribute to FMO’s knowledge on development impact by conducting and commissioning evaluations
• Be accountable to our stakeholders
• Share lessons learned internally and externally

The Department

The Strategy Department has strategy at its core, supporting the Managing Board and FMO leadership on key topics throughout the “strategy cycle”. The main activities of the department consist of:

• Strategic context and trend analysis
• Responsibility for and facilitation of strategy setting, thought leadership and policy advice on FMO’s SDG / development impact agenda, annual business planning and change project selection and monitoring
• Key support for making FMO a “learning organization” via performance monitoring and follow-up by way of evaluations and knowledge management

The Strategy department plays a crucial role in supporting and facilitating the rest of the organization with achieving FMO’s ambitious goals. The department consists of 4 teams being: Strategic Planning; Sustainability Strategy & Policy; Portfolio Management Office; and Evaluations & Knowledge Management, with in total nearly 30 colleagues.

Your background

To apply for this internship, you must be:

• A third- or fourth-year HBO or MSc student, currently enrolled in a program in The Netherlands
• Eligible to receive credits (ECTs) for this internship, either for your thesis or as part of your curriculum
• Available for a period of 6 months, 4 days per week preferably starting around March 2025.
• Living currently in The Netherlands

This opportunity will be a great combination to your studies if you:

• Are studying or have studied in a field related to Knowledge Management, Change Management, Business Process Innovation, Communications, Marketing, Information Management, Library Studies, Learning and Development, Development Studies, (Development) Economics, Finance
• Are proficient with Office 365 tools, particularly Microsoft SharePoint, Power BI, and Microsoft Teams, or you are open and able to learn (new) technologies
• Have writing, editing, video-making/editing, and visualization skills
• Are experienced in qualitative research skills (synthesizing literature, conducting interviews, analyzing results)

And particularly if you:

• can self-manage your time, take ownership of tasks, and deliver good quality results in agreed timelines
• have good intercultural communication skills
• are able and willing to bring new insights from your perspective and studies
• are not afraid to suggest improvements, ask questions and learn from mistakes

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Aakanksha Sharma at a.sharma@fmo.nl.

Are you enthusiastic about FMO’s mission and do you meet the criteria? We would love to hear from you and learn more about you and about how can we contribute to your career! So please, apply today! #PioneerDevelopScale.

FMO offers an internship compensation of Euro 750 net based on a 5-day work week.

Deadline: February 16, 2026