Priority roles
If you already know where you can help most, start here. We are actively recruiting for these roles and need your support in these areas specifically.
Who can join
We are looking for committed, thoughtful people from a wide range of backgrounds. You do not need previous humanitarian experience. We provide rigorous on-boardings, multiple briefings and offer a range of trainings to ensure volunteers understand the work, the context, and the responsibilities involved.
We particularly encourage applications from people who speak: Bosnian-Croatian-Serbia, Greek, Arabic, Farsi, French, Pashto, Kurdish, Turkish, Urdu, Hindi, Tigrinya, Amharic, Oromo, Thai, Vietnamese, and Punjabi. If you bring relevant language skills, please highlight them in your application, alongside any and all other skills your believe are relevant to our work.
Commitment
We ask for a minimum commitment of four weeks to allow us to train you properly, integrate you into your team, and ensure continuity for the people we support.
As we take this work seriously, we expect our volunteers to do the same. We operate in sensitive environments and make every effort to ensure that our work does not cause harm to the people we support, local communities, or our team.
All volunteers are therefore required to follow best practice at all times, agree to our Volunteer Agreement and comply fully with our Code of Conduct and Safeguarding Policy.
Our work is difficult but if you are looking for meaningful, grounded work that prioritises impact, accountability, and collective effort, you are in the right place.
Field programmes
Still not sure? We organise volunteering by programme, not just by role, so you can focus on choosing the context of work that best suits your expectations before committing. Below are our field programme opportunities.
Based in Belgrade, the Serbia programme focuses on mobile assistance and investigative advocacy.
Based in Sarajevo, the Bosnia programme focuses on mobile assistance and long term research and advocacy.
Based on Lesvos, the Greece programme focuses on freeshop provision of clothing and investigative advocacy.
International programme
If you are looking for something remote, we offer a handful of online volunteering opportunities in the international programme for competitive applications. These are roles designed for driven candidates looking for experience in more specialist department roles. We are more selective for these roles.
Focussed on resourcing all the work we and our partners do, carrying out creative problem solving to bring funding in consistently.
Focussed on investigations and research into the concerns identified by our teams, developing evidence-based reports of key findings.
Focussed on telling the story of the work we do and the people we meet, developing ethical visual and written content to portray our work ethically and correctly.