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Title: Tourism Business Enabling Environment Intern 

Length of Assignment: Short-Term 

Reports to: Business Enabling Environment Team Leader 

1. BACKGROUND 

The USAID-funded Visit Tunisia Activity is a 5-year project designed to enhance Tunisia’s tourism  potential, with the goal of generating revenue and jobs, particularly for women and youth, and for  populations in underserved regions of the country. The overall vision behind USAID’s investment in  Tunisia’s tourism sector is to capitalize on Tunisia’s natural, cultural, heritage and historical sites to  develop a more diversified and high-quality tourism sector that contributes to broad-based economic  growth. Through this activity, USAID seeks to contribute to Tunisia’s growth and development to  offset the negative economic impact of the coronavirus crisis. The project will seek to achieve the  following four objectives: 

• Objective 1: Enhance Tunisia’s competitiveness as a tourism destination; 
• Objective 2: Increase tourism-related investments and revenue; 
• Objective 3: Improve the enabling environment for sustained growth in the tourism sector;  • Objective 4: Private sector engagement to expand the offer and quality of alternative tourism. 

This project will collaborate with the relevant ministries, private sector, and donors to advance the  objectives while contributing to the following high-level results:  

1. Increase in the number of tourists.  
2. Increase in the number of jobs in the tourism sector.  
3. Increase in tourism revenue.  
4. Increase in private sector-led investment and innovation in the tourism sector. 

2. POSITION DESCRIPTION 

The Tourism Business Enabling Environment Intern will support the Tourism Business Enabling  Environment Component in conducting research, collecting data, performing data analysis and  reporting.  

The Intern’s duties will include project activity implementation, research, data collection, data  analysis, communications, and report preparation. The Intern will provide support to the Tourism  Business Enabling Environment team in the implementation of activities that will be agreed on a  weekly basis and prioritized together with the intern’s supervisor. 

Internship at the VISIT TUNISIA Project will provide the Intern with valuable exposure to a range of  tourism development aspects while working with an experienced team of tourism international  development professionals. 

3. DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES 

The Internship position requires strong inter-personal, communication and business skills to  complete the tasks associated with its broad responsibilities, including those listed below. 

• Provide support in development of database of project relevant private sector and public sector  organizations, relevant for research purposes and other communication needs. • Provide support with desk research for various needs related to tourism product development,  human capital development and tourism quality assurance. 
• Provide support in translation and review of various project related documents, including but not  limited to surveys for planned research activities. 
• Provide support in preparation of technical report, power point presentations, and meeting aide  memoires.  
• Provide support to monitor closely tourism related press and keep a track of market trends and  opportunities. 
• Other duties and activities as requested by the Team and agreed with the Team Leader.

4. PERIOD OF INTERNSHIP  

This is a short-term internship position for (6)Six months. 

5. LOCATION OF THE ASSIGNMENT 

This assignment will be in based in Tunis, intern will be required to attend the VISIT TUNISIA office  on a daily basis, except when work place protocols direct otherwise.  

6. SUPERVISION AND REPORTING 

The Intern will report to the Business Enabling Environment Team Leader. 

7. QUALIFICATIONS 

The Intern should possess the following range of qualifications and experiences:

•  Bachelor’s degree in tourism management, hospitality management, business administration, or a  related field is required. 
• Master’s degree in tourism management or related field is desirable. 
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills is required. 
• Fluent English required. 
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills is desired. 
• Strong research and analytical skills is desired.  
• A passion for tourism development and sustainable tourism development is desired.
•  Experience working or interning with USAID projects or other donor entities is desired.