Volunteer Roles

When you have selected the role you are most interested in, please fill in our online volunteer and local groups application form and mention the role in the second from bottom text box about other activities in which you are interested.

Mid Year and Financially supported Second Semester internships will be advertised shortly on our internships page.

Sydney Whales  Festival
This FREE Festival will be held from Friday 16 May to Sunday 18 May 2008 at the Harbourside Amphitheater in Darling Harbour. It will be open from 10am to 6pm each day and have events, displays and information on whales and whale watching in the Sydney region, so come along and get involved.

We have an opportunity for 18 people to be on our stall for minimum 2 hour, but preferable 4 hour shifts for the festival. It can be any one of the 3 days, between 10am and 5pm. Sessions would run from 9:30am to 1:30pm and 1:30 to 5:30pm.

This is a very simple stall with little training or specific knowledge required. Just friendly smiling faces required. Three people at the stall at a time would be great so people can take frequent breaks and have a cruisy, fun day.

To be involved, just email Micky at Greenpeace and tell her which days and times suit you best.

Intranet Updating
If you are into web administration and content we have a great opportunity to get real experience on our intranet. The intranet uses Drupal as the Content Management System so familiarity with Drupal or other popular Open Source CMS and basic HTML would be useful. Applicants should have basic HTML, writing skills ideally editing skills, experience of using CMS and image editing skills, but some training will be given. This would suit a final year student looking for hands on experience. It could be a great mid year break project.

Assistant GE Campaigner
Help organise a major GE campaign. Organising letter writing materials, promotions, bus shelter ads, web work. Good for someone who wants experience in campaigning and project management.
* min 20 days, actual days to be mutually agreed: eg block(s) of days or say 1 x 5-7 hour day per week.

Online Whales Campaign Moderator
We are looking for someone to work with us to monitor and approve comments added to the origami whales petition. They will be trained in what to look for in regards to offensive/inappropriate content and will be required to check for new comments each day. This role could be combined with other web related work such as maintenance. You would need to work in our Sydney office.

Data Entry and General Office Assistance
There are regularly opportunities for general office assistance and data entry. This role suits someone with English to native speaker standard with a good knowledge of names commonly used in Australia for people, streets, suburbs.
* hours by agreement - most volunteers do one 5 hour day a week, but some do more.

True food company lobbyist
Assist the GE Campaigner with lobbying of food companies. This involves telephone work including cold calling on food companies.
* ongoing, say 1 day of 5-7 hours a week.

Occasional Bulk Mail Assistance
Greenpeace does mailouts to our supporters including campaign updates and our supporter magazine, Making Waves. The mailouts involve putting printed materials into envelopes. Often these mailouts result in large volumes of incoming mail for a week or so after the mail out. We appreciate the assistance of our volunteers in this work and if you think you could help out for a few days occasionally or a day a week, just email us
* hours by arrangement - on an "as needed and agreed when convenient" basis or one morning a week.

True Food Communications Assistant
Research and write articles for the True Food website and news updates.Write profiles on True Food Network members from interviews. Good for someone who wants writing experience. Suit final year communications, PR, marketing or journalism student or recent graduate.
* min 20 days, actual days to be mutually agreed: eg block(s) of days or say 1 x 5-7 hour day per week.