RASD regularly offers volunteer opportunities across its thematic areas and ongoing projects. These opportunities are well-suited to recent graduates and established career professionals seeking to make a meaningful impact.
We welcome unsolicited applications. Interested individuals are encouraged to write a brief note outlining their academic and professional background, what inspires them to join RASD, and their preferred thematic focus or project. Applicants should submit this note along with their CV to [email protected], copying [email protected]. Women, persons with disabilities, and those from marginalised groups or communities are particularly encouraged to apply.
Volunteering activities span a wide range of meaningful tasks, including supporting field data collection, data entry and analysis, conducting literature reviews, contributing to advocacy campaigns, preparing policy briefs, reports, and scientific papers, carrying out risk assessments and mapping, facilitating online workshops and meetings, and managing social media communications. Engagements will be part-time or as agreed by RASD and the candidate.
As a globally connected organisation, volunteers will have the opportunity to develop in-demand skills in research, policy, and advocacy; expand their professional network; acquire hands-on field experience; enhance their career visibility with credible, practical NGO experience; contribute to publications that influence global discourse; be prioritised for paid roles; and receive reference letters for scholarships and other opportunities.