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Clinical placements, remote roles you can fit around a job, and community work close to home. Every role below is open right now.

What to expect as a volunteer

  • You will work under local leadership

    Volunteers support resident teams. We do not place people in charge of clinicians who live and work there year-round.

  • You will be trained before you start

    Safeguarding, cultural orientation and role-specific onboarding, all completed before a placement begins.

  • You will get a straight answer

    If a role is not a fit, we will say so quickly rather than leave an application open for months.

Open roles

5 roles currently open

Select a role to see what it involves and what we ask for. Requirements are the real ones — if something is listed, it is genuinely needed.

Work alongside locally employed midwives in district facilities, focusing on skills exchange rather than service substitution.

What you would do

  • Support antenatal clinics and deliveries alongside the resident midwifery team
  • Co-deliver skills sessions on obstetric emergencies with local trainers
  • Contribute to case review and clinical audit during the placement
  • Hand over written notes to the incoming volunteer and the resident team

What we ask for

  • Current midwifery registration in your home jurisdiction
  • Minimum three years post-qualification experience
  • Willingness to work under local clinical leadership at all times
  • Completion of our safeguarding and cultural orientation module
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Translate health library articles and fact sheets into one of fourteen target languages, working with a clinical reviewer.

What you would do

  • Translate plain-language health content while preserving reading level
  • Flag terms with no direct equivalent for the clinical reviewer
  • Review community feedback on published translations

What we ask for

  • Native or near-native fluency in the target language
  • Comfortable with medical terminology, formal qualification not required
  • Able to commit to a consistent weekly slot for at least six months
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Support the evaluation unit with cleaning, analysis and visualisation of de-identified programme data.

What you would do

  • Clean and validate incoming programme datasets
  • Produce reproducible analysis scripts in R or Python
  • Build the charts that go into public evaluation reports

What we ask for

  • Working proficiency in R or Python for statistical analysis
  • Experience with messy, real-world data collection
  • Comfortable publishing analysis code alongside results
Apply for this role

Support cold chain, stock control and last-mile distribution planning from one of our two regional logistics hubs.

What you would do

  • Maintain stock records and flag expiry risk across the hub
  • Support cold chain monitoring and incident reporting
  • Assist with route planning for last-mile distribution

What we ask for

  • Prior logistics, warehousing or supply chain experience
  • Comfortable with spreadsheets and inventory systems
  • Right to work in Kenya or Jordan, or eligibility for a volunteer visa
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Run events, workplace campaigns or challenge fundraising in your own community, with materials and support from our team.

What you would do

  • Plan and run local fundraising activity
  • Represent us accurately, using approved materials and figures
  • Report funds raised through the supporter portal

What we ask for

  • Enthusiasm, and a willingness to use our published figures rather than improvised ones
  • Completion of the short community fundraising briefing
Apply for this role

Nothing here fits? We keep an open register for skills we need irregularly — tell us what you do and we will get in touch when something matches. Paid roles are listed on our careers page.

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Tell us about yourself

One form for every role. If nothing above is a fit, leave the role blank and we will add you to the open register instead.

Selecting a role from the list above fills this in for you.

Include registration details and their jurisdiction if you are applying for a clinical role.

A couple of sentences is plenty. We are not looking for a cover letter.

We read every application and come back within ten working days, either way.