Application for ‘Future Leader Internship’ with Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN)

Deadline to apply

21 September 2025. Email: [email protected] (subject: 'Future Leader Intern - AW25')

Interview

26 September 2025. The time for the interview will be informed to the shortlisted candidates.

About ADN

The Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN) is a diverse, dynamic, inclusive and innovative global membership network dedicated to avoiding human deaths from natural hazards, naturally triggered technological hazards and human-made disasters in low- and middle-income countries.

The Role

Reference: AW25

ADN is seeking two Future Leader Interns to support administration and marketing activities for this academic term (1 October 2025 - 31 July 2026). The Future Leader Intern is expected to work four to seven hours each week. They can work one specific day each week or spread the hours over two specific days each week. The Future Leader Intern will be mentored by the Project Coordinator in the Operations Team and will be expected to assist with:

1. Developing promotional materials through Canva/ Microsoft Word.
2. Disseminating the promotional materials through social media platforms. They will update the venture's social media platform on a weekly basis.
3. Assisting with the logistics of ADN's stakeholders' engagement events and the global campaign: International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths 2026. This may include preparation of timetables, sending out invitations to potential participants of the workshops, securing their attendance, supporting and featuring the global campaigners' stories (among other things).
4. Conducting administrative tasks, including minute-taking of project meetings.

Applicant Profile

The Future Leader Intern should have:

Essential

• Ability to work remotely and deliver tasks on time.
• Access to internet, personal laptop and a safe and secure space to work from home.
• Experienced in disseminating materials through LinkedIn.
• Experience in creating visual promotional content through Canva.
• Undergraduate degree in risk, crisis, disaster management or public health or a related subject.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken).
• Ability to work independently and unsupervised.
• Ability to work in a team.

Desirable

• Interest in continuing professional development (CPD).
• Interest in disaster education, and preventing maternal deaths, direct and indirect disaster deaths, snakebites deaths and/or drowning deaths.

How To Apply

To apply for a Future Leader Internship, please send the following to [email protected] with the subject 'Future Leader Intern - AW25':

1. CV (max. 2 pages)

Ensure that it includes:

• Name
• Country of residence
• Current status (i.e. student/ researcher/ volunteer)
• Highest qualification achieved so far (BA/ BSc; MA/ MSc; MPhil/ PhD)
• Current employer (if relevant).
• Outline relevant job experience

2. Cover Letter (max. 1 page)

Ensure that it answers the following questions:

• Why do you want to join ADN as a Future Leader Intern?
• Which topic(s) are you most interested in? i. Disaster education, ii. Maternal deaths, iii. Direct and indirect disaster deaths, iv. Snakebites deaths, and/ or v. Drowning deaths.
• Do you perceive yourself as a 'Future Leader'? i. If yes, why and how can ADN help you to develop your Future Leader skillsets? If no, why? If unsure, why?

Additional Information

The Future Leader Intern is a voluntary position with the ADN. Access to the internet and a laptop/ personal computer is essential for this Internship. The Future Leader Intern should attend the ADN's monthly meetings and fortnightly project meetings and deliver their assigned tasks on time.

After completing the Internship period, the Future Leader:

• Must complete a feedback form and attend an exit interview The ADN team will utilise this feedback to help improve the Internship programme.
• Will receive a Participation Certificate. Also, upon request by the intern; a reference letter may be provided by one of the ADN Presidents (Professor Nibedita Ray-Bennett/ Dr. Hideyuki Shiroshita) that will furnish the interns participation and achievements during their internship at the ADN.

ADN promotes flexible working hours to meet an individual's needs. The working environment of ADN is friendly, warm, constructive, guided by systems-thinking, and assists ADN members to achieve set objectives and individual growth. The ADN working platform is flat and does not promote a hierarchical structure. Most of the core members of ADN work voluntarily, with everyone working remotely from different time zones and global locations.

The learning opportunities for the 'Future Leader Internship' with ADN are as follows:

• The opportunity to learn by working with multi-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary experts and practitioners;
• The opportunity to develop networking skills with a wide range of actors across many networks;
• The opportunity to gain new knowledge by attending ADN's Operations (monthly) and fortnightly project meetings;
• The opportunity to gain new knowledge by attending the ADNs and Leicester's Institute for Environmental Futures' Knowledge Exchange Webinars.
• The opportunity to stay up to date with information related to PhD Scholarships and skill and knowledge development courses or workshops delivered at Leicester's Institute for Environmental Futures.
• The opportunity to develop writing, communication and administrative skills for social media, peer-reviewed platforms and projects.
• The opportunity to make lifelong friendships with the ADN global team members.

An underperforming Intern will be asked to terminate their internship as soon as possible so that the opportunity can be provided to others on the waiting list. Underperformance is determined based on an individual's circumstances, such as, not delivering tasks on time, offering unfounded excuses for not being able to commit time, not attending meetings repeatedly, not having access to the internet to stay in touch with the ADN Team or their assigned mentor.