Your mission

Humanitarian organisations offer bountiful opportunities for students to gain experience in a dynamic environment whilst developing personal and professional competencies and contributing to humanity.

HELP Logistics and the Kühne Logistics University (KLU), through its joint Center for Humanitarian Logistics and Regional Development (CHORD), aim to shape the next generation of humanitarian logisticians by providing students with opportunities to work with international humanitarian organisations.

The selected student interns will be matched with a humanitarian organisation (UN, Red Cross/Crescent, INGO, etc.), based on their studies and the humanitarian organisations’ mandate and technical project needs.

HELP offers students a full sponsorship package and provides mentorship and professional guidance
through its experienced supply chain consultants.

Why apply:
• Gain first-hand working experience in the humanitarian sector.
• Contribute to a humanitarian organisation’s goals and mandate.
• Learn about the humanitarian supply chain ecosystem.
• Test your resilience, communication, flexibility, critical thinking, and empathy skills.
• Set your CV apart from others with experience that demonstrates the qualities that companies require.
• Qualify for the brand new Young Professional Programme, an 18-month post-graduate traineeship with a humanitarian organisation and a commercial logistics provider.

Your profile

• Enrolled in an MSc programme with a focus on logistics and
supply chain management.
• Have strong motivation to work on humanitarian logistics projects.

To Apply:
Fill the application form and upload your CV

About us

About HELP Logistics

Our purpose is to shape supply chains to benefit humanity.

HELP Logistics is a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Kühne Foundation, dedicated to supply chain and logistics. We sit at the intersection of commercial practice, academic research, and humanitarian operations, applying what works in one sector to solve problems in another.

We partner with donors, UN agencies, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, local organizations, and universities to strengthen supply chain performance in some of the most demanding contexts in the world. We transfer knowledge and build capabilities so that the organizations, systems, and networks we support can sustain improvements long after our engagement ends.

We operate from six offices across Switzerland, Singapore, Jordan, Kenya, Senegal, and Germany.

Our Values

Collaboration. The challenges we face are interconnected. So are the solutions. We work across boundaries because no single perspective holds the whole answer.

Curiosity. In a world of ambiguity, certainty is a liability. We stay open, ask better questions, and remain willing to unlearn.

Integrity. Independence means nothing without honesty. We speak truth to complexity, even when it is uncomfortable.

Resilience. Systems are fragile. People need not be. We adapt, support each other, and stay grounded when circumstances shift.