Internship – ESG & Impact Analysis
We are hiring:
🌍 Internship – ESG & Impact Analysis
EDFI Management Company – Brussels (Hybrid)
Start: January | Duration: at least 3 months, up to 6 months | Student status required
⭐ About EDFI Management Company (EDFI MC)
We empower entrepreneurship in frontier and emerging markets.
EDFI Management Company is an impact-driven investment manager created to tackle today’s sustainable development challenges.
We support entrepreneurs and companies driving positive change in sectors such as agriculture and renewable energy, through:
- direct investments in private companies,
- guarantees and partnerships with European Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) to mobilise additional private capital.
We manage two Market Development Facilities:
- AgriFI – Agricultural Financing Initiative
- ElectriFI – Electrification Financing Initiative
These EU-funded initiatives close long-term financing gaps and stimulate private-sector growth—while ensuring high leverage, strong additionality, and measurable impact.
🎯 Your Role – ESG & Impact Intern
Join the ESG & Impact team and contribute to strengthening EDFI MC’s impact systems and analyses. Your work will directly support reporting to DFIs, the European Commission, and internal decision-making.
🔎 Your Key Responsibilities
- Support the documentation, reporting and monitoring of environmental, social and development indicators.
- Collect, clean and verify impact datasets for ongoing and completed investments.
- Analyse impact data and prepare visualisations using Excel and other tools.
- Contribute to development-effect analyses, dashboards and internal/external presentations.
- Assist in modelling indirect impacts using the Joint Impact Model (JIM).
- Help update monitoring tools, databases and methodological documents.
- Contribute to communication and reporting deliverables, including the 2025 Impact Report, quarterly updates for the European Commission, and impact stories.
🧑💻 Your Profile
We welcome Master’s students from diverse fields:
Engineering – Finance – Economics – Data Science – Sustainability – Political Science – International Development.
✔️ You bring
- Strong interest in sustainability, development, impact, or private-sector solutions.
- Good command of Excel; Power BI is an advantage.
- Analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent command of English (French, Spanish or Dutch are a plus).
- Good communication skills, team spirit, curiosity and autonomy.
➕ Additional Assets
- Familiarity with the SDGs or Development Finance Institutions.
- Experience in ESG, impact investing, development cooperation or data analysis.
- Knowledge of monitoring & evaluation (M&E) tools or methodologies.
- Experience developing datasets or dashboards.
🚀 What We Offer
- A meaningful internship where your work contributes to real and measurable development impact.
- The opportunity to develop concrete, market-relevant skills, including:
- ESG analysis (E&S risk assessment, IFC Performance Standards),
- Impact measurement (development indicators, SDGs, theory of change),
- Data analysis & visualisation (Excel, Power BI, impact datasets),
- Monitoring & Evaluation methodologies,
- Development finance exposure (how DFIs structure and finance impact projects).
- An international, mission-driven environment working with European DFIs and the European Commission.
- A collaborative, supportive team with a strong learning culture.
- A healthy work-life balance and flexible working arrangements.
The internship starts in January, and lasts up to 6 months (student status required).
👉 This role gives you concrete exposure to how a Development Finance Institution (DFI) operates and how impact-driven investment decisions are structured.
How to apply
Send your CV and cover letter in English to Olivier Moyens through hr@edfimc.eu.
The cover letter shall clearly outline your motivation and availability.
We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.
