Jobs, volunteering and more

Everyone has a role in building a healthier, fairer world.

If you're looking for inspiration, this is just a tiny snapshot of what is out there.

Here's a list of paid and unpaid opportunities, plus other resources to help spur action. If you know of a great opportunity out there, let us know.

Australia

Senior Manager Sustainable Healthcare APAC at Bupa
📍 Melbourne, VIC / Hybrid
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Bupa’s Senior Manager of Sustainable Healthcare (Part Time 0.8FTE) is responsible for developing and deploying strategies, programs and activities that support enviro-socio change and contribute to wider ESG agenda. The Senior Manager Sustainable Healthcare will be responsible for designing and delivering a strategic and impactful program explicitly focussed on reducing healthcare environmental sustainability impact at Bupa APAC (and ensuring these efforts are integrated and harmonising with pre-existing sustainability plans e.g. sustainable building management and renewable electricity use).

Senior Global Campaign Manager at Our Kids' Climate
📍 Remote
🗓️ Monday 15 April 2024
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Working three days a week as the Senior Global Campaign Manager, you’ll play a crucial role in developing and implementing campaign strategies, and mobilising parents and caregivers worldwide to demand clean air and tackle the interlocking air pollution and climate crisis. You will have a proven track record in mobilising and organising communities to create impactful change, and a deep understanding of working across cultures. This role requires exceptional facilitation skills, coupled with the ability to support grassroots movements, monitor and track campaign data and develop creative campaigns.

Senior Project Officer at Wildlife Health Australia
📍 Remote
🗓️ Monday 15 April 2024
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WHA is seeking a motivated Senior Project Officer to join our team on a part-time basis (19 hours per week). You will play a crucial role in managing, leading, delivering, and reporting on key WHA projects of a technical and capacity building nature. Additionally, you will contribute to and actively engage in the capacity building and management of Australia's wildlife health preparedness and response system. This role involves liaising, leading discussions, and providing expert advice on specific operational or technical issues for capacity building for wildlife health with government, industry, and community groups.

Australia

Volunteer with Healthy Futures
📍 
Across Australia
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Healthy Futures runs campaigns that mobilise health workers and allies to take action on climate change. They have a number of volunteer roles and activities to suit different interests and availabilities. Whether you're keen to take action online, participate in a creative demonstration or join a working group to help drive their effective climate and health campaigns, they'd love to hear from you!

Melbourne

Volunteer with Little Food Festival
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Melbourne
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Little Food Festival The Little Food Festival connects the dots across how food is grown, processed, moved, purchased, cooked, eaten and re-used so that children can make choices that nourish their health and the planet.

Future Leaders Program by the ANU Planetary Health Equity Hothouse
📍 Canberra, Australia
🗓️ EOIs close 18 March 2024
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The Planetary Health Equity Hothouse will welcome a small group of early career researchers and PhD students to a two-week intensive in Canberra in September 2024.

The intensive comprises structured workshops and masterclasses related to theory, transdisciplinary research, and knowledge mobilisation, plus time for writing and conversations with the Hothouse team members and wider ANU community, the program offers an opportunity to develop new research skills, spark new collaborative ideas, and create new opportunities for knowledge mobilisation that aims to improve planetary health equity.

 

RACP and NSW Health Sustainability in Medicine Fellowship
📍 NSW
🗓️ EOIs close 31 March 2024
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RACP and NSW Health intend to partner to deliver a flexible part-time fellowship role in environmentally sustainable medicine. Leveraging the success of the NSW Health Net Zero Leads program, the Fellowship is designed to support action research in sustainability initiatives within the health sector. To take part in this fellowship, register your EOI. Eligible RACP members must be employees of NSW Health.

 

Microcredential: Sustainable Healthcare in Practice by Monash Sustainable Development Institute
📍 Online
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MSDI’s Sustainable Healthcare in Practice micro-credential will provide students with the knowledge and skills to create an inclusive, equitable, restorative and resilient health system.

If you or your employer is a member of CAHA or the GGHH network, contact us for details about receiving a discount on your enrolment.

 

Short course: Air pollution and health by the World Health Organization
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Online
💵 Free
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The World Health Organization have developed a free, self-paced short course targeted at health workers, to bringing awareness to the health risks associated with air pollution. 

 

Short course: Disaster resilience in community service organisations by Charles Sturt University and Open Learning
📍 Online
💵 Free
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This free self-paced short course offers practical strategies to improve disaster preparedness in community service organisations. These capabilities will equip you and your organisation with skills to manage service disruption in the face of disaster events.

 

Workplace training: Climate Care Program by Vets for Climate Action
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Vets for Climate Action have developed an annual program to providing the tools and knowledge to successfully integrate environmentally sustainable solutions into day-to-day veterinary practice.

International

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Arizona State University
📍 Tempe, USA
🗓️ Open until filled
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The School of Sustainability at Arizona State University seeks applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to integrate biophysical human heat balance models with climate modeling simulations for heat adaptation research.