• Act for Peace is a dynamic humanitarian aid and development agency
• Workplace benefits;
  • Flexible working hours
  • Access to Employee Assistance Program
• Be part of an experienced and friendly team of professionals
• Fixed-term, Part-time (approximately 3 days per week for 19 weeks)
• Unpaid (meals and travel costs covered)
• Location: Flexible, ideally Sydney CBD

We believe all people are created equal, and we should love our neighbour’s as ourselves. Yet, right now, we’re living in a world of ‘us’ and ‘them’. Divisions are deepening, conflicts are escalating, and climate inaction is placing lives in peril.

It means every day, more of us around the world are forced from our homes by violent conflict and disaster.

For more than 70 years, Act for Peace has brought people together to respond to this injustice. Meeting urgent needs, advocating for change and backing displaced people to reclaim control of their lives.

Founded by the Australian churches, we are a diverse collection of people united by a powerful conviction: to create a just and peaceful society, we must work together. It’s both the right thing to do, and the only thing that will work.

That’s why we work in solidarity with long-term local partners; and collaborate with local, regional and global networks, academics, governments and the UN; to ensure people uprooted by conflict and disaster have a safe place to belong.

Our Vision

A world where everyone belongs.

Our Purpose

To create, together, a world where people uprooted by conflict and disaster have a safe place to belong.

For more information about Act for Peace, including our strategic framework, principles and policies, please visit our website actforpeace.org.au.

Role Description

Act for Peace is seeking an intern to be a passionate and organised project assistant to support the Australian branch of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI). This global initiative, led by the World Council of Churches, provides protective accompaniment for communities in East Jerusalem and the West Bank affected by the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

The role involves support during the process of recruiting and training Australian Ecumenical Accompaniers (EAs) and is unpaid. The role will suit somebody who would like to gain experience in the humanitarian sector and/or with experience in and understanding of the context in Israel and Palestine.

Key Responsibilities:

• Recruitment: Support the advertisement, communications, selection and interview process for EAs selected for training.
• Training: undertake logistics and organisation for a 5-day training of Australian EAs in preparation for deployment.
• Program Assistance: Ensure high-quality data management, social media content production, communication with stakeholders, update advocacy materials and other duties in line with Act for Peace and donor requirements.

Please download the Candidate Information Pack for further details on the role, including the key responsibilities and selection criteria.

To apply:

Please follow the link below to our website and application portal, where you will be able to upload your resume and a cover letter with response to the selection criteria via the Apply Now link.

Applications will be considered on an as received basis.

For further information, please contact [email protected], using the subject line: EAPPI Project Assistant - Intern (Voluntary) enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.

Act for Peace prioritises the safeguarding of all people, including the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment, and the protection of children. Employment and engagement is conditional upon the outcome of an Australian Federal Police Background check, as well as an equivalent police background check for any country in which the applicant has lived for more than 12 months during the last five years and each country of citizenship and Working With Children Checks where possible.

Our policies, including our Child Safeguarding Policy, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment Policy and Code of Conduct can be found at: actforpeace.org.au/our-policies.

Act for Peace is an equal opportunities employer. Individuals with lived experience of displacement are encouraged to apply.