People & Planet is the biggest student organisation in the UK campaigning on poverty, human rights and the environment. We have a campaign record of changing the behaviour of governments, corporations and billion-pound investment funds. We have 19 staff, the largest student network in Europe and tens of thousands of supporters. We recently won the British Environment and Media Award’s Best Campaign award for our Green League.
“People & Planet is a wonderful organisation - full of passion, commitment and enthusiasm - qualities that have come through in the work that we have done with People & Planet both as a funder and a collaborator on policy work. You often meet people and find that their first connection with campaigning work was as a member of a People & Planet or formerly a Third World First group. That is the organisation’s ultimate legacy; generations of people who are shamed by the problems that diminish our society and who say to themselves ‘this is unacceptable and I can do something about it.”
Matthew Smerdon, Baring Foundation
Current Vacancies
- Paid Internships (8 posts)
- Regional Representative (Voluntary)
- Media and Communications volunteer (Voluntary)
- Sixth Form Group Mentor (Voluntary)
- Campaign Advocate (Voluntary)
- People & Planet: The Movie (Voluntary)
- Campaigns Research Volunteers (Voluntary)
- Independent Network Volunteering Opportunity: Webforums Administrator (Voluntary)
- Other voluntary positions (Voluntary)
Internships (8 roles £11,471.46pa)
How to apply
To apply for an Internship, fill out an application form and return it (along with a completed equal opportunities form) by 10am Monday 18 May to internships@peopleandplanet.org.
“My year as an intern at P&P was a hugely important part of my development as a campaigner. I arrived with passion and commitment, but with campaigning experience largely limited to small, and often non-strategic student campaigning groups. I left with a whole range of skills in the areas of project management, training and facilitation, campaign planning.”
David Babbs, ex-intern, formerly Head of Capacity Building, Friends of the Earth, now Director of 38 degrees
Our Internships are respected throughout the NGO and charity sectors as a great way to gain the skills and experience you need for a career in charity work or campaigning.
During the eleven-month Internship you will learn what makes campaigning and youth organisations work. Through experience, intensive training and ongoing support you will develop your skills, including time and project management, public speaking, facilitation, training, writing, campaign group support, events and campaign action organisation, IT and skills specific to the role you take on.
You will be working for one of the leading grassroots campaign organisations in the UK, supporting a truly amazing network of students. In recent years P&P Interns have gone on to work for: Action Aid, Christian Aid, CAFOD, Comic Relief, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Rising Tide, the Samaritans, VSO, YWCA, and for People & Planet itself among many others.
- Get inspired! Read more testimonies from previous Interns
Please download the full job description and person specification for more details
You can contact us with any questions or to arrange to chat to someone informally about the roles.
Please note that due to the inflexible timing of the contract, unfortunately we can only accept applications from candidates with permission to work in the UK.
- Deadline for applications is 10am Monday 18 May
- Interviews are planned for 8 - 12 June
- The successful candidates will be based in our national office in Oxford