Internship, Environment &  Forest Conservation, Tony's Open Chain team

Why we are here  
Tony’s Chocolonely is committed to ending exploitation in cocoa. We are an impact company that makes chocolate, not a chocolate company that makes an impact. With incredibly tasty chocolate, we lead by example, demonstrating that ethical practices and success can go hand in hand. Through Tony's Open Chain (TOC), mission allies like Albert Heijn, Ben & Jerry's, Jokolade, and Aldi have embraced a fairer, more transparent supply chain for their chocolate.   

Now we are on the hunt for our new Environment & Forest Conservation Intern to join our team in Amsterdam!    

Here’s what you’ll learn:  

• Forestry conservation & restoration: Get hands-on experience in conservation, restoration, and landscape-level thinking, and see how forests and agriculture interact in real supply chains. 

• Deforestation & remediation: Learn about deforestation risk assessments and help roll out remediation plans that align with emerging industry and regulatory standards. 

• Environmental science in action: Apply what you studied, from forestry ecology to sustainability, directly to challenges in cocoa growing regions, tackling reduction of chemical use, and promotion of plant and animal biodiversity. 

• Sustainability reporting, impact, data & audit readiness: Develop skills in sustainability reporting, data validation, impact communication and audit preparation. You’ll help shape Tony’s Open Chain’s annual impact reporting. 

Here’s what you’ll do:  

In the Climate & Environment team (5SP) 

• Support deforestation remediation roll out, help research, develop and test approaches for remediation, using best practices and benchmarks from the sector. 

• Contribute to forest conservation initiatives, work on restoration and conservation actions, mapping potential partners or service providers and support the design of projects. 

• Integrate environmental preservation into cocoa farming: support execution and monitoring of sustainable cocoa farming practices through our cooperative-centric model via: research, data analysis, & project management. 

• Support internal & external communications — help build presentations, policies, publications and materials on forestry, deforestation and sustainable cocoa production. 

In the External Affairs & Reporting team 

Support the full process of developing the 2025/26 Tony’s Open Chain Impact Report: gather inputs, draft and edit content, coordinate stakeholder reviews, collaborate on visuals, support KPI data collection and validation, update audit documentation and contribute to analytical publications such as:  

• the Living Income Analysis 

• the Productivity Programme Year 1 Reflection Paper 

• Integrated & Profit & Loss Analysis (format TBD)