You may be on a career break, changing jobs or wanting to gain experience in international development and working overseas. Alternatively your employer may be supporting you to take a secondment and you are seeking a challenging learning and development opportunity.

You will be using your professional skills overseas, often in challenging environments without the resources you are used to. Our volunteers succeed when they demonstrate their adaptability, determination, cultural sensitivity, professionalism and positive attitude.

To meet the needs of our overseas partners we primarily need volunteers with experience in:
- Accountancy
- Administration
- Business Development
- Management (General, Project, Strategic)
- Finance
- HR/Training
- Law
- Marketing/PR/Communications

We have a variety of work and can use your transferable skills so please contact us… to explore how your skills can be contribute to our partners work overseas.

You will be involved in organisational strengthening and capacity building projects – working at the core of your host organisation. You will act as a consultant sharing technical expertise that is either not available or not affordable locally.

We avoid service delivery work, as we think this is best done by local people. As a CWW volunteer you will undertake an essential assignment designed to help host partners develop their organisation. You will also share skills to enable the organisation to sustain your work once you have left.

Examples of the type or work you could do include:
- Researching and planning income generation strategies
- Setting up financial recording and reporting systems
- Researching, writing and training staff on marketing strategies
- Undertaking evaluation of particular projects
- Reviewing and improving HR policy
- Assisting in project planning and programme development

The process to becoming a CWW volunteer is very simple. First you need to send your CV which details your professional skills and experience to apply@challengesworldwide.com with a cover letter which details:
- What type of work you are interested in doing
- What particular skills and experience you have which will help you with this work
- Why you want to get involved in working overseas
- Your availability

We will then consider your skill set and conduct a telephone and face-to-face interview with you.

If successful, you will attend a 2 day training course and we can have you in contact with your host partner and overseas within 60 days!