See below for the summer 2010 placements.
Applications for summer 2010 placements are now open; the deadline has now been extended to Wednesday 9th June 2010.
ONE NEW ORGANISATION ADDED 04.06.10 - REACHABILITY!
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To see Easter 2010 placements, click here.
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Name of Organisation:ReachAbility
Website: www.reachability.co.uk
Description of organisation:We are an ethical business specialising in learning and development. We champion creative, inclusive ways for engaging and involving all sorts of people in plans, decisions and changes from low-income groups and campaigning charities to large local authorities and private companies. We practice and promote creative approaches to participation in many different shapes and forms from running specialised training courses for professionals to facilitating change in organisations, sectors and wider society. We work locally in Oxford/shire, across the UK, in Europe and occasionally beyond.
Location of placements: Oxford
Start date/s:As soon as possible from late June/early July onwards though into September. We are ready to consider part –time as well as full time interns and try to be flexible depending on candidates needs. Hours are usually 9.30 – 5.30 with some flexibility.
Details: We are looking for one or two people who according to their skills and own priorities would like to take on marketing, communications and administrative roles as follows:
- keep our website up to date and if possible, develop some of the content further (we have a simple user friendly system for maintaining the pages etc)
- input information into our database and undertake marketing and other communication activities e.g. assist in developing publicity, managing our photo stock etc.
- client, venue, event and course liaison
- administer and manage course bookings and payments
- assist in running courses, workshops and events on the day (exact roles and responsibilities to be negotiated depending on skills and preferences)
- financial book keeping.
Other tasks and roles as needed and agreed in order to build experience and develop CV for the intern.
No of internships: 2 (at least one part-time, if not both – could be treated as job share for mutual additional support, learning and enjoyment)
Additional info:We provide a monthly allowance of £ 50.00 – more than the price of the monthly bus pass in Oxford. This can be used for any purposes. We can consider increasing this allowance if both parties wish to extend the internship beyond the end of September.
We are committed to supporting interns to get the most out of the internship for their own development (we are a learning and development organisation after all!) including through:
Name of organisation: AfrOx (Africa Oxford Cancer Foundation)
Website:www.afrox.org
Description of organisation: AfrOx's mission is to partner with African countries and assist them with implementing comprehensive cancer prevention and control programmes. We help train healthcare staff; improve palliative care; support programmes to improve the treatment of cancer and to raise awareness of early signs of cancer and methods of cancer prevention.
Location of placement:Headington, Oxford (We are based at the Old Road
Campus Research Building)
Start and end date: Start date is flexible, duration mid-July to end of September, hours are flexible but ideally 10am - 4pm
Duration of placement: preferred 2 or 3 days a week, between 6 - 10 weeks.
Number of placements available: 1
Details of internship(s): We are looking for a creative and motivated intern
to assist with our fundraising and marketing. The role will involve working with various team members and will include making applications to trusts and foundations, helping with our events fundraising and improving our social
media profile. The intern will also have their own specific project, which we will discuss and design together. We are a new charity and a small team so this internship will offer the chance to learn about all aspects of the charity.
Additional information:We will pay reasonable travel and lunch expenses.
This placement is only open to students at the University of Oxford.
Name of organisation:Age UK Oxfordshire (the merged Age Concern and Help the Aged)
Website: www.ageuk.org.uk and ageconcernoxon.org.uk
Description of organisation: An agency passionately committed to the rights and interestsof people as they grow older, offering them information, advice and confidence, delivering services from friendship to footcare, and campaigning for a better life in later life.
Location of placement:Oxford but getting around the county a bit
Start and end date: mid-June to mid-September preferred
Duration of placement: 3 days a week preferred
Number of placements available: 1
Details of internship(s): As the Chief Executive of a charity about to relaunch and seeking to make a big impact, I need a dynamic, bright, committed Marketing and Media Assistant to work closely with me and a couple of other key people in the charity to make our launch a roaring success and to lay foundations for the future.
Work will include following up the launch event on June 18, getting marketing materials produced and out there, exploring media opportunities, putting in place a marketing programme and other necessary activities.
Additional information: Expenses paid, clear discussion at the outset to agree expectations and our mutual commitment, and we are a lovely team!
Name of organisation:Cambridge Cyrenians
Website: www.cambridgecyrenians.org.uk
Description of organisation: Cambridge Cyrenians provides accommodation and support to single, homeless, men and women in Cambridge. We provide 68 bedspaces on 10 sites. We also provide a specialist Mental Health Team, Older Homeless Project and various meaningful activities, including a tree nursery and pottery workshop.
Location of placement: Cambridge. All sites of visits will be within central Cambridge.
Start and end date:June to August
Duration of placement: 2+ weeks. Five days a week.
Number of placements available: 2
Details of internship(s):To help promote our tree nursery/pottery to potential customers and users. To assist with the printing of a book about Cyrenians and the assembly of a related exhibition. To assist with updating our website. To drive our Land Rover Station Wagon to transport people and goods around the city.
Additional information:We may be able to provide accommodation for free. We can contribute to travel costs and can pay for expenses, such as food. Exact details will be dependent on individual circumstances.
Name of organisation: Siren Conservation Education
Website: www.siren.org.uk
Description of organisation:We aim to help people all over the world realize the benefits of biodiversity for physical and mental health.
Location of placement:Oxford
Start and end date: mid-June/July to end August or mid-September
Duration of placement: 6-7 weeks. Flexible hours and working arrangements, ideally available to work in the office on weekday afternoons with a possible full day on Friday.
Number of placements available:1
Details of internship(s):
- Developing the PACE project in West Africa through researching and contacting organisations doing environmental education (www.paceproject.net)
- Proof-reading environmental education materials in French
- Researching forest conservation and the bushmeat crisis in the Congo Basin as a case study for A-Level students on the links between conservation and development.
There may be opportunities to get involved with other UK projects if time permits.
Additional information: Skills and interests that would be relevant: written/spoken French, knowledge or interest in West Africa and/or forest conservation, Photoshop graphic design, writing clear and appealing text, educational events/advocacy/schools campaigning. You will need to be self-motivated, able to work independently and be ready to make telephone calls for research and project development. We offer expenses for travel.
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Name of organisation: GapAid
Website:www.gapaid.org
Description of organisation:GapAid is a newly formed charity addressing some of the issues related to the fast-growing gap year experience that is becoming a rite of passage for so many young people. Our aim is to ensure the safety of travelers whilst on their travels by empowering them with relevant and detailed information and teaching them to be more aware of the cultural, educational and environmental issues associated with the country they have chosen to travel in. Our aim is to cultivate a generation of responsible travelers.
Location of placement: from home with meetings, events, and catch-ups in varying locations (mainly Dorset and Oxfordshire)
Start and end date/Duration: Flexible but for as long as the interns are available
Number of placements available:Unlimited
Details of internship(s): We have several different projects that Interns could work on depending on their area of interest:
1. We are running our first Gap Year Fair on the 12th July and are looking for an Intern who has strong organizational skills, is a good communicator and is passionate about travel. The intern we are looking for will be marketing the event to schools, co-coordinating with the 30-40 Gap Year organizations attending the fair and working with the venue (Cherwell School in Oxford) to make sure the set up and running of the event goes smoothly. After the fair they will need to gather feedback and right a short report on how the fair went and how we can make it even better the following year!
2. We are in the process of finalizing plans for our Education Programme where student ambassadors (school leavers and University students) will go into local schools to do talks about their own travel experiences and how to plan and prepare for a safe Gap Year- we are looking for an Intern with an interest in education and who is passionate about travel. They will be helping to shape and develop how this programme is delivered as well as marketing the programme to schools. There may also be the potential to deliver talks and to recruit for Ambassadors for the start of the academic year.
3. Our website has just been updated but there is always scope to continue to add to it, increase the amount of information and create new relationships with other organizations who share our aims and objectives. We are looking for an Intern who has an interest in websites, marketing and design, an understanding of the use of social networking to get messages out there would also be useful along with a passion for travel and communicating. Our website is our number one tool, so working on this project will allow you to see the impact of your work first hand.
Additional information: We currently don’t have an office so Interns will be working from home with regular meetings either in Oxford or down in Dorset (Salisbury). The amount of time you spend can be flexible as long as you are honest about how much time you can commit and try to stick to it!
Name of organisation:Ethical Property Company Limited
Website:www.ethicalproperty.co.uk
Description of organisation:The Ethical Property Company supports innovative and progressive organisations working for social change by taking care of their property needs. We offer ethical investors the chance to buy shares in the company and invest that money in setting up centres that provide affordable, well-managed and environmentally-friendly office space that brings organisations together under one roof. We work together with JADe, an IT consultancy, to deliver Ethical IT, which provides smart, carbon-conscious IT services to the social change sector (www.ethicalit.net).
Location: Oxford and London
Start and end date:Flexible, but from mid June - Mid August
Duration of placement: Flexible, but 4 – 5 days a week for 4 – 6 weeks.
Number of placements available: 2
Details of internship(s):
1. Marketing Assistant
Assisting the Marketing Manager and our IT team in researching and developing our new services around GreenIT. Green IT is about delivering smart and environmentally sustainable IT solutions to our clients. We need someone with an interest in marketing and communications to help develop our Green IT Charter in to a set of materials we can use to communicate our services. To do this you’ll research the field of Green IT, including meeting with other IT providers in the sector, working with our IT team to understand the products, speaking with our clients about the new services, and desk-based research.
There is no need for an IT background or a high level of IT knowledge.
This post would be located in Oxford, with some travel to Ethical IT’s office in London.
2. Asset Management Researcher
Assisting Our Chief Technology Officer in researching and developing asset management as a service to our clients, as part of our Green IT initiative. The research involves working closely with our IT team to investigate products available to audit IT hardware, software, and other peripherals, reporting and recommending your findings, and testing products in a series of pilot schemes.
An intermediate technical knowledge of IT would be beneficial to this role.
This post would be located in London, which some travel to Ethical Property’s office in Oxford.
Name of organisation: Student Hubs
Website: www.studenthubs.org
Description of organisation: Student Hubs works in UK universities to transform student involvement in charitable activities. We act as a catalyst, empowering students to become active changemakers in their local and global communities. We currently work in Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford and Southampton and are a young organisation (only 3 years old!) with a small team of staff and many student volunteers.
Location of placement:Oxford, with some travel to Bristol, Cambridge and Southampton
Start and end date: Flexible - anytime from late June to late September
Duration of placement: Flexible - 4-6 weeks, 2-4 days a week
Number of placements available: 2
Details of internship(s):We are looking for motivated, innovative interns to help us roll out our plans to become more financially sustainable as an organisation. We're looking for interns interested in developing a social entrepreneurial stream of funding and implementing income generating systems. This will involve working with different members of the team on various tasks. There is also scope to work on the Careers section of our website and to liaise with external groups on issues concerning student volunteers.
Additional information: We can offer expenses for lunch and travel. Additional payment subject to funding - to be confirmed.
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Name of organisation: Big Wide Talk
Website: www.bigwidetalk.org
Description of organisation: Big Wide Talk is a non-government organisation committed to improving children's lives by making their natural skills and strengths more obvious to parents and professionals. Big Wide talk operates on a national basis from offices in Cambridge. Big Wide Talk uses multi-media technology and direct work with children and families in all of its projects.
Location of placement: Cambridge
Start and end date:w/c 7th or 14th June (start date flexible) to 30th July
Number of placements available:4 places
Details of internship(s):
Interns will be directly involved in all aspects of a Big Wide Talk Theatre of Learning event, 'The Cloth Place'. This will run in an empty shop unit at the Grafton Centre, Cambridge. Under direction from a Big Wide Talk co-ordinator, they will be involved in:
Recruitment, promotion and networking
- Using the Contacts database to recruit participants.
- Event promotion and publicity.
- Disseminating information about the event in appropriate local networks.
- Conference organisation, delivery and follow up.
Fundraising
- Identifying possible sources of funding and assisting in securing
same.
Theatre of Learning event
- Set up and take down: this will involve transforming the shop unit into a cloth kitchen, cafe and shops, launderette, faith place and farmyard, using Big Wide Talk's collection of real and cloth objects. Takedown will be required at the end of the event to return the shop unit to its original state.
- Operation of the event: The Cloth Place will run for four weeks, including some weekends (this would be managed on a rota system). There will be three sessions a day with up to 40 children taking part in each session, along with parents and teachers. Interns will act as a resource for the children in the Cloth Place, work closely with the Big Wide Talk co-ordinator to ensure children's safety, and reset the space ready for the next group. Interns may also be asked to help film the action.
- It is essential that interns take part in a daily debriefing session with the rest of the Big Wide Talk team.
Documenting
- Filming;
- interviews with participants;
- co-authoring research stories with children, parents and practitioners;
- film-making.
(see www.bigwidetalk.org for examples of mini-documentaries and research stories)
Analysis and Evaluation, using both qualitative and quantitative information
- Area profiling research and analysis;
- report preparation.
Working with children, their families and their schools
Additional information:This opportunity will provide valuable experience to students from all disciplines. There will be a compulsory one-day induction to familiarise interns with Big Wide Talk's methods and tools.
Organisation:OxFizz
Website: www.oxfizz.org
Number of placements available: 1
Location of placement: London (with possible trips to Oxford and/or Cambridge)
Details of organisation:OxFizz is a pioneering organisation. Established in 2007 by three Oxford graduates, OxFizz is a unique social enterprise that offers innovative methods of fundraising, volunteering and philanthropy. OxFizz provides professional educational services delivered by highly-trained graduate volunteers. The services are charged for and profits are divided between a charity of the volunteer’s choice and a bursary programme to help disadvantaged students. In 2009, OxFizz raised £27,500 for charity and disadvantaged students.
Details of internship(s):We can offer you the chance to make a significant impact to an innovative organisation. As a young, dynamic social enterprise, OxFizz is open to change and new ideas. We're looking for an enthusiastic, motivated person to become a research intern in a key area of product development for our interviewing branch. Using investigative and analytical skills we would like you to produce a comprehensive report into university admissions tests. The project will include online research, talking to our volunteers and sourcing expert advice. The report will be used to make a strategic decision and your work will be of lasting benefit to OxFizz.
You will become part of a close-knit, value-led team that shares and collaborates ideas. We would expect you to contribute at meetings, take on considerable responsibility for an essential part of our business and work in partnership with senior management.
Additional information: 2-4 weeks from Wednesday 23rd June- Friday 23rd July. Start date and working hours are flexible. Travel expenses within London and expenses for any work trips (e.g. to Oxford and/or Cambridge). Lunch expenses (negotiable). Opportunity to attend OxFizz socials and seminars.
Organisation:YWCA England and Wales
Website: www.ywca.org.uk
Number of placements available: 2
Location of placement: Oxford (head office is based on Cornmarket Street)
Details of organisation:YWCA is the leading charity working with the most disadvantaged young women in England and Wales. Our work focuses on girls and young women from poor communities who are the hardest to reach. As well as poverty, they may face other problems such as addiction, violence or racism, and they may be without any say in running their lives.
Details of internship(s): One intern will help our newly formed Major Donors fundraising team to identify and research prospective donors, using a variety of research tools, and contribute to the development of funding proposals and promotional materials for major donors. We also hope to organize a cultivation / networking event in the autumn, so the intern would help plan/organize such event. Part of the role would also include entering information on our fundraising database, Raisers’ Edge.
The second intern will help our corporate fundraising activities, especially sourcing data lists of companies based around our 14 centres across England & Wales and developing a fundraising mailing to secure donations. This would involve liaising with our centres to develop the proposal and develop the necessary promotional materials. Finally, this role will also following-up with companies any leads, thanking for donations, and record relevant information on our fundraising database, Raisers’ Edge.
Additional information:In line with our volunteering policies, we will be very happy to refund reasonable travel expenses. Length of time is flexible, but I would say a minimum of 6 weeks up to 12 weeks. Start and finish days are flexible between June and September 2010.
