Volunteers are an important and valued part of People & Planet. Voluntary positions are available based both where you live and in our Oxford office. Please remember that you can also get involved in the People & Planet group in your university or sixth form.
All positions include support and training plus your expenses covered (please check each role description to confirm details).
To apply for a voluntary position, please read the role description and fill out the relevant application form and send it to the address given by the stated deadline. Please don’t hesitate to contact us to find out more about volunteering with People & Planet and the opportunities available.
Current voluntary positions
How to apply
To apply for any of the positions on this page, fill out an application form and return it by the deadline to volunteer@peopleandplanet.org.
- Regional Representative
- Campaign Advocate
- Media and Communications volunteer
- Group Support Volunteer
- People & Planet: The Movie
- Campaigns Research Volunteers
- Independent Network Volunteering Opportunity: Webforums Administrator
- Other positions
Regional Representative
Regional Reps are crucial to supported and growing the P&P network of university and college groups. The role includes:
- Helping to support People & Planet university groups in your region through advice and training;
- Facilitating the formation of new People & Planet groups.
- Organising a regional training day for the university groups in your region. You could also help groups to communicate with each other, coordinate campaign actions and transport to national events such as Shared Planet;
- Communicating the views and needs of university groups in your region to the staff in the support office;
- Helping to promote People & Planet’s campaigns and events to university groups in your region.
There will be a training weekend for new Regional Reps on 27 - 28 September 2008.
If you’d like to be a Regional Rep, download the full role description and return a completed application form to us by 12 September.
Campaign Advocate
Campaign Advocates play an integral role in the development, promotion and delivery of People & Planet’s award winning campaigns. Focussing on a particular issue, Campaign Advocates will:
- Deliver campaign training, workshops and issue specific talks.
- Work with the support office as a reference group for the development and delivery of campaigns.
- Be well briefed on P&P campaign policy and in turn act as a peer communicator and media spokesperson.
- Take part in lobbying meetings on behalf of People & Planet.
There will be a training weekend for Campaign Advocates on 27 - 28 September 2008.
If you’re interested in this role, download the role description and return a completed application form to us by Friday 12 September.
Media and Communications volunteer
Media and Comms volunteers work to communicate their group’s campaigning activities to a wide range of audiences. They will also be regular contributors to P&P’s termly newsletter.
There will be an Induction and Training session at the Summer Gathering. If you’re interested in this role, download the role description and return a completed application form to us by 12 September.
“The war we’re fighting is an information war, and we have to use all the weapons at our disposal” (George Monbiot).
Group Support Volunteer
Over half of all of People & Planet’s campaign groups are based in schools and colleges. Now is your chance to use the skills you have learnt to help make their campaigning even better! Help set up and support a new Sixth Form People & Planet group in your area or support a struggling one. This is a great opportunity to bring P&P groups together and get experiance working with young people.
We are currently looking for interested potential Group Support Volunteers in London, Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford and Reading to be availabe for academic year 2008-2009. Please download the role description for more details.
If you’re interested in being a Group Support Volunteer please email Jamie
Campaigns Research Volunteers
People & Planet is looking for a number of volunteers to put their research skills into use to help develop our Go Green and Redress Fashion campaigns. Are you a dab hand at internet research, interested in environmental management or in finding out which universities are purchasing goods made with sweatshop labour?
If you’re interested in being a research volunteer please email Emily.
Independent Network Volunteering Opportunity: Webforums Administrator
Are you a bit of a technical wizard and at a loss for things to do with all that spare time you have on your hands? Do the words ‘network democracy’ resonate in your ears with the beauty and temptation of a Siren’s song? If so, the webforums, the independent internet based space for discussion of everything People & Planet related, need you.
The webforums were set up independently of the People & Planet office by students in the network, and have always been administered by people who are keen to provide a space for discourse on important decisions facing the network. They will be a key place for people to discuss the decisions that need to be made at The Forum 08, as well as all the other proposals that have been submitted for the event. As well as this, the webforums allow planning of joint events and sharing of experience and ideas, which contributes to a more vibrant and effective campaigning network. In short, they are a crucial part of what distinguishes People & Planet as a student led organisation.
Running on phpbb software, the webforums need two administrators to check for spam postings, set up and close down discussions where necessary, and be competent to address technical problems as and when they arise. These tasks will take roughly two hours per week of basic maintenance time as well as a few hours a month of more technical development and troubleshooting. Volunteers will receive initial training but will ideally possess good level of technical confidence and competence. If you are interested in maintaining these important resources then please get in touch.
Other positions
Past voluntary positions include Regional Representatives, Go Green research volunteer and Data entry volunteer. These positions may be re-advertised and new positions will arise so please keep checking back!