InTent Internship Programme (#IIP) 2026: Paid Summer Internship for Bachelor’s, Master’s, or MBA Students in Marketing, Communications, Branding, or Digital Media (3 months)
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The Role
Paid three-month marketing and communications internship supporting a circular hospitality start-up. Responsibilities include improving website messaging, managing social media, creating campaign assets, producing sustainability-focused content, analyzing customer behavior, and contributing to digital marketing campaigns. The role suits proactive students interested in sustainability, branding, communications, and early-stage businesses. Applicants must have legal authorization to complete the internship in the Netherlands; visa sponsorship is unavailable.
Summary Generated by Built In
Join a paid summer internship where you will help a circular consumer brand strengthen its market presence and sustainability story. Through the InTent Internship Programme (#IIP), you will support digital communications, brand messaging, and campaign development for a start-up working to reduce single-use plastic waste in hospitality.
Primal Soles is a Netherlands-based start-up developing a circular alternative to disposable hotel slippers. Its work focuses on replacing single-use plastic products in hospitality with recyclable materials and a recovery model designed to support circular procurement practices.
The PositionYou will support the Marketing & Communications Intern project. The role focuses on improving website messaging, growing social media presence, creating campaign assets, and helping communicate the environmental value of circular hospitality
products. This is a strong opportunity for a student interested in sustainability communications and early-stage brand building.
What You Will Work Onproducts. This is a strong opportunity for a student interested in sustainability communications and early-stage brand building.
- Support improvements to the company website, including messaging and structure
- Manage and grow social media presence through content planning, posting, and engagement
- Create marketing assets for campaigns and advertisements, including visuals, presentations, and one-pagers
- Produce content that communicates the environmental impact and story behind the company’s circular products
- Analyse customer and consumer behaviour to support branding and messaging improvements
- Contribute to a small digital marketing campaign highlighting the impact of circular slippers
Requirements
What You Bring
You are interested in sustainability and impact-driven business, and you want to apply your marketing or communications skills in a start-up environment. You are comfortable creating content, thinking about brand positioning, and helping communicate a clear value proposition.
Who You Are- Strong interest in sustainability and impact-driven businesses
- Marketing or communications skills across content, branding, or digital channels
- Able to create clear and engaging marketing materials
- Proactive and entrepreneurial in how you work
- Strong written and spoken English
- You are
Benefits
What You Will Gain
- Hands-on experience in sustainability marketing and brand development
- Exposure to how a circular product is positioned in the hospitality market
- Stronger skills in digital communications, content creation, and messaging
- Insight into start-up operations and founder-led decision-making
- Experience contributing to a mission-driven company during a growth phase
- This is a paid internship offered through the InTent Internship Programme (#IIP).
- The internship should start as soon as possible and no later than 15 August 2026.
- The internship will run for three months.
- The internship may be undertaken on either a full-time or part-time basis.
- Applicants must already have the valid legal right to undertake this internship in the Netherlands for its full duration.
- Visa sponsorship and support with obtaining a residence or work permit are not available for this position.
- The selected intern may also take part in the wider Programme journey, including the SEED Impact Summit on 24 September 2026.
InTent is a Geneva-based non-profit accelerating sustainable solutions by building bridges between business, education, and environmental stewardship.
The InTent Internship Programme (#IIP) is a fully funded summer initiative connecting students with purpose-driven start-ups and NGOs in sustainability-related fields. More information about the Programme can be found at https://www.intent-for-change.org/iip/.
About InTent
InTent is a Geneva-based non-profit accelerating sustainable solutions by building bridges between business, education, and environmental stewardship.
About the InTent Internship Programme
The InTent Internship Programme (#IIP) is a fully funded summer initiative connecting students with purpose-driven start-ups and NGOs in sustainability-related fields.
InTent is a Geneva-based non-profit accelerating sustainable solutions by building bridges between business, education, and environmental stewardship.
About the InTent Internship Programme
The InTent Internship Programme (#IIP) is a fully funded summer initiative connecting students with purpose-driven start-ups and NGOs in sustainability-related fields.
More information about the programme you can find on https://www.intent-for-change.org/iip/
Skills Required
- Current Bachelor's, Master's, or MBA student
- Strong interest in sustainability and impact-driven businesses
- Marketing or communications skills across content, branding, or digital channels
- Ability to create clear and engaging marketing materials
- Proactive and entrepreneurial approach to work
- Strong written and spoken English
- Valid legal right to undertake the internship in the Netherlands for its full duration
- Availability for a three-month internship beginning as soon as possible and no later than August 15, 2026
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The Company
What We Do
InTent is a Swiss nonprofit platform that mobilizes influential and diverse decision-makers for sustainable change. It educates, connects, and accompanies businesses, civil society, academia, and policymakers as they adopt and scale sustainable practices. Through discussions and agenda-setting debates, InTent creates conditions for new ideas and practical solutions, while its internship programme connects students with purpose-driven startups and NGOs advancing a fairer, nature-positive, and resilient world.
