Overseas Placements with EWB
Applications for Intake 10 are now Closed
For questions on volunteering with EWB please refer to the The next Intake will be advertised in August 2012 for January 2013 departure.
EWB Overseas Placements - Background
Are you looking for something meaningful? Do you want to be the change you wish to see in the world? We provide mechanisms to volunteer in communities overseas, locally, remote Australia, even from home! We accommodate a range of professionals from all stages of their career and experiences.
If you are considering volunteering with EWB, please refer to the
Remote Assistance for Overseas Projects
Are you from India, Sri Lanka or Nepal or do you have a great grasp of the language? Do you want to support developing communities back in your native country, from Australia? EWB are looking at supporting our community partners and volunteers by providing reports and resources in local languages. This is an Australian based position.
Field Volunteer Buddy initiative
This is your chance to put your passion to use - and if you have experience that to! For those that are not quite ready to go overseas as a Field placement yet, or if you want to make a difference from Australia this is your chance. We are looking for the next round of field placement Buddies, that is someone who can provide remote assistance to a field volutneer from Australia. Click here to check out the Position Description or here to down load the Positions Description.
This is the big one! The buddy initiative Coordiantor role. For those of you that have a lot to learn, this is the ideal role for someone looking to understand, through implimenting, the Australian based project support for field volunteering. Your chance to make a real difference. Test and develop skills in managing the delivery of the buddy program: developing guidelines for (mentoring, professional development) to Monitoring and Improving, there is so much to gain. click here to check out the Position description or here to down load it.
Exciting Overseas Program Internship and Volunteer Opportuntiies
Learn about Community Development in Practice, by doing it! this is your chance to find out how EWB's overseas South Asia program is run. To get involved inside the program, assisting in setting strategy, delivering the projects, managing the partnerships and training the field volunteers. Click here to check out the Positions description that could change your life. Or here to download it
Other Opportunities
EWB occasionally advertises positions on behalf of other NGO's and partner organisations. These are NOT supported by EWB technically or financially and are independent of EWB Australia.There are currently no other opportunities listed.
“After a few days I discovered the life of an EWB volunteer is extremely varied; not only did I come to learn so much about water quality and factory processes, I was also able to lecture Cambodian science graduates, perform a carbon credit feasibility study, serve as a dental nurse, assist a New York film crew, become an expert frog catcher, attend a wedding, assist with an orphanage art exhibition, live with a Cambodian family for a week and even be visited by a cloudy leopard while camping in the middle of the Cardamom Mountains jungle!
Now back home, I am looking forward to following the progress of the many groups who came through for training and watching the simple but effective ceramic filter technology grow. I am also looking forward to following the lives of the students I taught as they face many challenges and opportunities ahead in a rapidly changing country.
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Kathryn Smith, Technical Support, RDIC Cambodia 2009