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Volunteer Internships
What you will need
Where our offfices are located
Obtaining a visa for Australia (if needed)
Enquiring about an internship
More information about Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Internships in other Greenpeace offices
Would a friend be interested?
Contact information
What you will need
Although we welcome applications from within Australia, Fiji, PNG and overseas, you will need to:- Speak, read and write English very well - perfectly for communications roles. If your written and spoken English is not perfect the roles we can give you are much more limited.
- Work the equivalent of one month full time, but perhaps spread over a few months (for example, 20 days over 20 weeks). Longer and/or full time internships are welcome.
- Be entitled to work in the country where you want to do your internship. To intern in Sydney office, if you are not a citizen or permanent resident, you will need an appropriate visa that allows you to work in Australia: see obtaining a visa. The limitations on work visas for Fiji make it impractical for people who are not residents of Fiji to do internships with Greenpeace in Fiji at present. Similarly, we are only able to offer internships in our Port Moresby office to people already in, and entitled to work in, PNG.
- Arrange all travel, visas (if any), accommodation and living costs with no contribution from Greenpeace. Unfortunately, Greenpeace cannot provide accommodation or sponsorship for visas, nor can we nominate people for Occupational Training visas.
- Be suitable for a role that is both available from us and acceptable to you (and, if relevant, your supporting organisation such as a college, university or sponsor).
- Make a good faith commitment to the time, terms and conditions of the internship, which will be tailored to your specific situation.
Our offices
Sydney: Level 4, 39 Liverpool Street, Sydney, NSW.Use WhereIs or Google Maps to see a map.
For Google Earth enter: 33°52'34.54"S 151°12'14.89"E
Suva: Level 1, Old Town Hall, Victoria Parade, Suva, Fiji.
For Google Earth enter: 18° 8'31.00"S 178°25'23.00"E
We are not able to offer internships in our offices in Canberra or Port Moresby at present.
Canberra: Near Civic Square and City Hill.
For Google Earth enter: 35°16'52.96"S 149° 7'53.77"E
Port Moresby
Obtaining a visa for Australia
A volunteer intern must be entitled to work in the relevant country. Volunteers who are not permanent residents will require an appropriate visa that allows them to work/volunteer in Australia. Unpaid work and volunteering is treated as work in Australia. For more information, visit the Australian Department of Immigration. People on tourist visas may do voluntary work provided it is merely incidental to their tourist experience.It is relatively easy for all people aged 18-30 years, who are interested in a working holiday of up to 12 months in Australia from Belgium, Canada, Republic of Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Taiwan and United Kingdom to obtain Subclass 417 working holiday visas for Australia. (Information as at 11 March 2009)
It is relatively easy for tertiary educated people from Chile, Iran and Thailand who are interested in a working holiday of up to 12 months in Australia to obtain subclass 462 working holiday visas for Australia
It is much more difficult for people from other countries to obtain an appropriate visa for Australia and you would need to make enquiries of the Australian consulate nearest you.
We regret we are unable to sponsor volunteers for visa purposes in any of the countries in which we operate. We are not able to nominate people for Ocupational Training visas for Australia.
Enquiring about an internship
To enquire about an internship please email us your CV/resume and state in the email your approximate dates of availability and areas of interest (both for work and regarding the environment). Please keep your CV under four pages (but preferably shorter).Email: our volunteer coordination team.
volunteer@au.greenpeace.org
Ph: + 61 2 9263 0303
More information about Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Visit our website to find out more about what Greenpeace Australia Pacific does.Keep up-to-date with what is happening at Greenpeace Australia Pacific by subscribing to our monthly email newsletter.
Internships in other Greenpeace offices
Many Greenpeace offices around the world accept volunteers and offer internships.
We can help you make contact with other offices but it would be faster if you contact these offices directly yourself. Find out where our other offices are located.
Once you have found the office you are interested in, visit their website and look for links that relate to About us, Getting Active, Volunteering and Jobs.
Internships and volunteer jobs also occasionally pop up on the jobs around the world page.
Would a friend be interested?
If you have a friend that you think might be interested, please email them the link to this page.Contact information
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To obtain more information about internships email:
volunteer@au.greenpeace.org
and our volunteer coordinators will get back to you.Maybe you know someone else who would be interested in an internship with Greenpeace. If so, please send them this page using the "Send" link.
