"Volunteering with The Carbon Literacy Project has given me the opportunity to expand my knowledge and learn something new about climate change every day and gain many new skills along the way."
Belkais Zagandi
"There is a well developed volunteer support structure and the role offered substantial experience for my CV as well as being tailored to my personal goals. I left to work full-time as a copywriter with Media City based communications agency Media Agency Group, and used much of my experience from working with The Project."
Micaela Rossi
"As an environmental graduate, volunteering with The Carbon Literacy Project has been such a positive and inspiring experience at a time where there is so much uncertainty about climate change. I was encouraged and supported to work on ongoing projects and any new ones that I expressed interest in. The skills and insight I have gained will be very useful for any future work that I go on to do."
Natalia Phipps
"Volunteering for The Project has encouraged me to understand different industries and their perspectives. It has expanded my knowledge of climate change and my understanding of the importance of reducing our carbon footprint. It has also taught me a new skill set in terms of data management and teamwork. The great teamwork atmosphere in the office has motivated me to be better and encourage others."
Fiona Ieong
"Volunteering for The Carbon Literacy Project was just overall a really great experience. I felt very supported in practising the design skills I came to develop, and the whole team was really friendly. I ended up learning loads just through swivelling my chair around and joining in with whatever the team was chatting about!"
Oskar Walin
"Undertaking a placement year with The Carbon Literacy Project has given me the opportunity to learn and develop new professional skills as well as expand my knowledge on current climate change issues and our future impact. The work of The Project has equipped and inspired me for future opportunities, as I have gained knowledge and skills I can use to make a real change and encourage others to do the same."
Rebekah Clarke
"Being a Carbon Literacy placement student has been invaluable. My confidence, diligence, and task management skills have developed ridiculously quickly. Not to mention having the opportunity to attend events like COP26! The team have shown me how an organisation can grow exponentially whilst still upholding the highest quality of work and employee wellbeing."
Nicole Baldwin
The Carbon Literacy Project is currently going through an exciting period of growth, and we wouldn’t be where we are today without the help of our dedicated Volunteer Workforce which has given us their time and expertise over the years. In order to support the scale-up, we need Volunteers who can offer anything from a regular day a week, to full-time project assignments.
At the moment these roles are unfunded, but we cover reasonable public transport travel expenses (including a bike travel allowance), lunch allowance for city-centre working, and an opportunity to gain documented experience for qualification support or CVs, contributing to a globally unique, ground-breaking project.
The Carbon Literacy Project is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to support volunteers from different backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from individuals who are:
… who are currently under-represented within The Carbon Literacy Project and the wider environmental sector.
Applications Deadline: Ongoing
Induction Days: Regular induction days taking place monthly
We need a wide range of skills and experience for different tasks and from different people, these include:
In addition, for specific roles, The Project needs individuals with practical experience of:
We ensure that all our volunteers are Carbon Literacy trained. If you’re not already Carbon Literate when you join us, we will look to find a course that you can attend to gain certification. Volunteering with The Carbon Literacy Project, we will help you to develop knowledge and skills relevant to your desired career path, and will look to involve you in areas of work that you’d like to gain experience in.
If you are interested and think you might have the skills and enthusiasm to offer, please complete our downloadable volunteer application form above and, along with a recent CV, email to info@carbonliteracy.com listing ‘Volunteer Application’ as the subject.
Please note that this role is permanently advertised, so you may be added to our waiting list until such time that a position becomes available.
Applications Deadline: Ongoing
This role will involve working alongside our Communications team to support the promotion of Carbon Literacy and The Carbon Literacy Project’s work through digital and social media.
The role is likely to involve:
Desired experience:
What you will gain from this role:
We ensure that all our volunteers are Carbon Literacy trained. If you’re not already Carbon Literate when you join us, we will look to find a course that you can attend to gain certification. Volunteering with The Carbon Literacy Project, we will help you to develop knowledge and skills relevant to your desired career path, and will look to involve you in areas of work that you’d like to gain experience in.
If you are interested and think you might have the skills and enthusiasm to offer, please complete our downloadable volunteer application form above and, along with a recent CV and some details around why you are suitable for this specific healthcare opportunity email to media@carbonliteracy.com listing ‘Volunteer Application’ as the subject.
Job Title: Project Intern x2
Team: Operations
Salary: The role is not formally paid, although reasonable public transport (including bike mileage) travel expenses are paid, and there is a daily £5 allowance for lunch, when traveling into our city centre location.
As part of our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion, we plan to introduce a grant scheme for our placements, either across the board or means-tested, to ensure those who can’t afford unpaid placements can access the same opportunities within The Carbon Literacy Project. This work is currently ongoing and not guaranteed.
Expected Start Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2022
Expected End Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2023 (dependent on start date)
Expected Duration: 12 months – Working 3 days per week with The Carbon Literacy Project, then 2 days in paid employment elsewhere to support yourself financially through the placement. (Please ensure your University and Department allows for this form of placement set-up before applying)
Location: At our Manchester office environment, with the option to work remotely.
Expected Leave: 20 working days pa pro rata + statutory bank holidays + Christmas closure
Closing Date: 2nd June 2022
Interviews w/c: TBC – Mid May / June
How To Apply: Please fill in the Carbon Literacy Internship Application Form to provide your personal and contact details, and evidence of how you match the criteria for the role in which you are applying.
About The Project:
The Carbon Literacy Project (CLP) is a celebrated multi-award winning, globally unique climate change learning-and-doing project founded in Manchester. It is a registered charity (No 1156722) and is run on behalf of its trustees (The Carbon Literacy Trust) by founders Cooler Projects CIC, based at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Innospace. Based on a unique flexible framework for a day’s-worth of highly relevant climate-change learning, and with large-scale take-up across the UK and Europe, more than 29,000 learners have now been certified as Carbon Literate.
Carbon Literacy learning and certification covers the essentials of climate change, carbon footprints, how an individual can ‘do their bit’, and why it’s relevant from individual to organisation. Carbon Literacy (CL) is aimed at three distinct audiences – those that live, those that work, and, those that study. This allows The Project to capture all audiences with specific knowledge and motivation in its aim to offer every citizen Carbon Literacy.
The Project prides itself on its track record supporting interns and volunteers; see: http://carbonliteracy.com/work-with-us/past-volunteers/. In fact, other than the founders, all of our current staff started out volunteering with The Project!
When interning with The Carbon Literacy Project, we will help you to develop knowledge and skills relevant to your desired career path and where possible will look to customise the work you do and involve you in the areas of work that will best support your longer-term career ambitions.
We ensure that all our volunteers and interns are Carbon Literacy trained. If you’re not already Carbon Literate when you join us, we will find a course for you so that you can gain this and potentially other certifications with us, as part of your skills portfolio.
Role Description:
As a Project Intern with The Carbon Literacy Project, you will be fully immersed in the workings of our small team, pitching in with daily activities, being assigned personal responsibilities and tasks, and carrying out specific project work as and when the need arises. This role is the most varied we offer as it covers our core operations, with scope for working across all areas of The Project.
Some of the work you might typically be involved in will be a range across our core operations, and is likely to include:
Key personal attributes:
Essential skills/experience:
Desirable skills/experience:
We don’t expect any intern to arrive with all of these skills in place, and also know that you will probably arrive with many other existing skills that we haven’t thought of listing, but The Carbon Literacy Project team will work with the successful intern, to help them build on their existing skills and develop those that are new to them, with the aim of delivering a great internship, a sound personal development experience and a better environment for all involved. We are flexible and can confirm nearer the time whether this placement will be part or fully home-based (virtual), or in our office location.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We particularly encourage applications from individuals who are Black, Asian, or an ethnic minority in the UK, as well as those from working class backgrounds, and those with disability, who are currently under-represented within The Carbon Literacy Project and the wider environmental sector.
The Carbon Literacy Project is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to support volunteers from different backgrounds.
Job Title: IT & Systems Intern
Team: IT & Systems
Salary: The role is not formally paid, although reasonable public transport (including bike mileage) travel expenses are paid, and there is a daily £5 allowance for lunch, when traveling into our city centre location.
As part of our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion, we plan to introduce a grant scheme for our placements, either across the board or means-tested, to ensure those who can’t afford unpaid placements can access the same opportunities within The Carbon Literacy Project. This work is currently ongoing and not guaranteed.
Expected Start Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2022
Expected End Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2023 (dependent on start date)
Expected Duration: 12 months – Working 3 days per week with The Carbon Literacy Project, then 2 days in paid employment elsewhere to support yourself financially through the placement. (Please ensure your University and Department allows for this form of placement set-up before applying)
Location: At our Manchester office environment, with the option to work remotely.
Expected Leave: 20 working days pa pro rata + statutory bank holidays + Christmas closure
Closing Date: 2nd June 2022
Interviews w/c: TBC – Mid May / June
How To Apply: Please fill in the Carbon Literacy Internship Application Form to provide your personal and contact details, and evidence of how you match the criteria for the role in which you are applying.
About The Project:
The Carbon Literacy Project (CLP) is a celebrated multi-award winning, globally unique climate change learning-and-doing project founded in Manchester. It is a registered charity (No 1156722) and is run on behalf of its trustees (The Carbon Literacy Trust) by founders Cooler Projects CIC, based at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Innospace. Based on a unique flexible framework for a day’s-worth of highly relevant climate-change learning, and with large-scale take-up across the UK and Europe, more than 29,000 learners have now been certified as Carbon Literate.
Carbon Literacy learning and certification covers the essentials of climate change, carbon footprints, how an individual can ‘do their bit’, and why it’s relevant from individual to organisation. Carbon Literacy (CL) is aimed at three distinct audiences – those that live, those that work, and, those that study. This allows The Project to capture all audiences with specific knowledge and motivation in its aim to offer every citizen Carbon Literacy.
The Project prides itself on its track record supporting interns and volunteers; see: http://carbonliteracy.com/work-with-us/past-volunteers/. In fact, other than the founders, all of our current staff started out volunteering with The Project!
When interning with The Carbon Literacy Project, we will help you to develop knowledge and skills relevant to your desired career path and where possible will look to customise the work you do and involve you in the areas of work that will best support your longer-term career ambitions.
We ensure that all our volunteers and interns are Carbon Literacy trained. If you’re not already Carbon Literate when you join us, we will find a course for you so that you can gain this and potentially other certifications with us, as part of your skills portfolio.
Role Description:
As IT and Systems Intern with The Carbon Literacy Project, you will be fully immersed in the workings of our small team, pitching in with daily activities, being assigned personal responsibilities and tasks, and carrying out specific project work as and when the need arises.
Some of the work you might typically be involved in is likely to include:
We are also happy to work with you in expanding on tasks and projects you are involved in across The Carbon Literacy Project, depending on the skills you have and the skills you wish to develop. We would expect the customisation of work you do to be conducted in a way that maximises its usefulness to both you and The Carbon Literacy Project.
Key personal attributes:
Essential skills/experience:
Desirable skills/experience:
We don’t expect any intern to arrive with all of these skills in place, and also know that you will probably arrive with many other existing skills that we haven’t thought of listing, but The Carbon Literacy Project team will work with the successful intern, to help them build on their existing skills and develop those that are new to them, with the aim of delivering a great internship, a sound personal development experience and a better environment for all involved. We are flexible and can confirm nearer the time whether this placement will be part or fully home-based (virtual), or in our office location.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We particularly encourage applications from individuals who are Black, Asian, or an ethnic minority in the UK, as well as those from working class backgrounds, and those with disability, who are currently under-represented within The Carbon Literacy Project and the wider environmental sector.
The Carbon Literacy Project is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to support volunteers from different backgrounds.
Job Title: Accounts Intern
Team: Accounts
Salary: The role is not formally paid, although reasonable public transport (including bike mileage) travel expenses are paid, and there is a daily £5 allowance for lunch, when traveling into our city centre location.
As part of our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion, we plan to introduce a grant scheme for our placements, either across the board or means-tested, to ensure those who can’t afford unpaid placements can access the same opportunities within The Carbon Literacy Project. This work is currently ongoing and not guaranteed.
Expected Start Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2022
Expected End Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2023 (dependent on start date)
Expected Duration: 12 months – Working 3 days per week with The Carbon Literacy Project, then 2 days in paid employment elsewhere to support yourself financially through the placement. (Please ensure your University and Department allows for this form of placement set-up before applying)
Location: At our Manchester office environment, with the option to work remotely.
Expected Leave: 20 working days pa pro rata + statutory bank holidays + Christmas closure
Closing Date: 2nd June 2022
Interviews w/c: TBC – Mid May / June
How To Apply: Please fill in the Carbon Literacy Internship Application Form to provide your personal and contact details, and evidence of how you match the criteria for the role in which you are applying.
About The Project:
The Carbon Literacy Project (CLP) is a celebrated multi-award winning, globally unique climate change learning-and-doing project founded in Manchester. It is a registered charity (No 1156722) and is run on behalf of its trustees (The Carbon Literacy Trust) by founders Cooler Projects CIC, based at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Innospace. Based on a unique flexible framework for a day’s-worth of highly relevant climate-change learning, and with large-scale take-up across the UK and Europe, more than 29,000 learners have now been certified as Carbon Literate.
Carbon Literacy learning and certification covers the essentials of climate change, carbon footprints, how an individual can ‘do their bit’, and why it’s relevant from individual to organisation. Carbon Literacy (CL) is aimed at three distinct audiences – those that live, those that work, and, those that study. This allows The Project to capture all audiences with specific knowledge and motivation in its aim to offer every citizen Carbon Literacy.
The Project prides itself on its track record supporting interns and volunteers; see: http://carbonliteracy.com/work-with-us/past-volunteers/ In fact, other than the founders, all of our current staff started out volunteering with The Project!
When interning with The Carbon Literacy Project, we will help you to develop knowledge and skills relevant to your desired career path and where possible will look to customise the work you do and involve you in the areas of work that will best support your longer-term career ambitions.
We ensure that all our volunteers and interns are Carbon Literacy trained. If you’re not already Carbon Literate when you join us, we will find a course for you so that you can gain this and potentially other certifications with us, as part of your skills portfolio.
Role Description:
As Accounts Intern, you will play a key role in our small but dedicated Accounts Team, helping to oversee the smooth running of our accounts and financial processes. The Carbon Literacy Project has a rapidly growing client base, and the Accounts Team has an increasingly busy role in responding to the increase in take-up of Carbon Literacy services. Our work largely involves data handling and processing, requires an eye for detail, and will see you supporting the functions of the entire Carbon Literacy team.
Some of the work you might typically be involved in is likely to include:
We are also happy to work with you in expanding on tasks and projects you are involved in across The Carbon Literacy Project, depending on the skills you have and the skills you wish to develop. We would expect the customisation of work you do to be conducted in a way that maximises its usefulness to both you and The Carbon Literacy Project.
What you will gain from the placement:
Key personal attributes:
Essential skills/experience:
Desirable skills/experience:
We don’t expect any intern to arrive with all of these skills in place, and also know that you will probably arrive with many other existing skills that we haven’t thought of listing, but The Carbon Literacy Project team will work with the successful intern, to help them build on their existing skills and develop those that are new to them, with the aim of delivering a great internship, a sound personal development experience and a better environment for all involved. We are flexible and can confirm nearer the time whether this placement will be part or fully home-based (virtual), or in our office location.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We particularly encourage applications from individuals who are Black, Asian, or an ethnic minority in the UK, as well as those from working class backgrounds, and those with disability, who are currently under-represented within The Carbon Literacy Project and the wider environmental sector.
The Carbon Literacy Project is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to support volunteers from different backgrounds.
Job Title: Social Media Intern
Team: Marketing & Communications
Salary: The role is not formally paid, although reasonable public transport (including bike mileage) travel expenses are paid, and there is a daily £5 allowance for lunch, when traveling into our city centre location.
As part of our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion, we plan to introduce a grant scheme for our placements, either across the board or means-tested, to ensure those who can’t afford unpaid placements can access the same opportunities within The Carbon Literacy Project. This work is currently ongoing and not guaranteed.
Expected Start Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2022
Expected End Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2023 (dependent on start date)
Expected Duration: 12 months – Working 3 days per week with The Carbon Literacy Project, then 2 days in paid employment elsewhere to support yourself financially through the placement. (Please ensure your University and Department allows for this form of placement set-up before applying)
Location: At our Manchester office environment, with the option to work remotely.
Expected Leave: 20 working days pa pro rata + statutory bank holidays + Christmas closure
Closing Date: 2nd June 2022
Interviews w/c: TBC – Mid May / June
How To Apply: Please fill in the Carbon Literacy Internship Application Form to provide your personal and contact details, and evidence of how you match the criteria for the role in which you are applying.
About The Project:
The Carbon Literacy Project (CLP) is a celebrated multi-award winning, globally unique climate change learning-and-doing project founded in Manchester. It is a registered charity (No 1156722) and is run on behalf of its trustees (The Carbon Literacy Trust) by founders Cooler Projects CIC, based at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Innospace. Based on a unique flexible framework for a day’s-worth of highly relevant climate-change learning, and with large-scale take-up across the UK and Europe, more than 29,000 learners have now been certified as Carbon Literate.
Carbon Literacy learning and certification covers the essentials of climate change, carbon footprints, how an individual can ‘do their bit’, and why it’s relevant from individual to organisation. Carbon Literacy (CL) is aimed at three distinct audiences – those that live, those that work, and, those that study. This allows The Project to capture all audiences with specific knowledge and motivation in its aim to offer every citizen Carbon Literacy.
The Project prides itself on its track record supporting interns and volunteers; see: http://carbonliteracy.com/work-with-us/past-volunteers/. In fact, other than the founders, all of our current staff started out volunteering with The Project!
When interning with The Carbon Literacy Project, we will help you to develop knowledge and skills relevant to your desired career path and where possible will look to customise the work you do and involve you in the areas of work that will best support your longer-term career ambitions.
We ensure that all our volunteers and interns are Carbon Literacy trained. If you’re not already Carbon Literate when you join us, we will find a course for you so that you can gain this and potentially other certifications with us, as part of your skills portfolio.
Role Description:
As a Social Media Intern, you will play a key role in our small but dedicated Communications Team, helping to expand and improve our social media content and overall presence. The Carbon Literacy Project has a relatively small but rapidly growing social media audience across our social media platforms, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook. In this role, you will be assigned personal responsibilities and tasks relating to existing and new social media communication campaigns.
Some of the work you might typically be involved in includes:
We are also happy to work with you in expanding on tasks and projects you are involved in across The Carbon Literacy Project, depending on the skills you have and the skills you wish to develop. We would expect the customisation of work you do to be conducted in a way that maximises its usefulness to both you and The Carbon Literacy Project.
Key personal attributes:
Essential skills/experience:
Desirable skills/experience:
We don’t expect any intern to arrive with all of these skills in place, and also know that you will probably arrive with many other existing skills that we haven’t thought of listing, but The Carbon Literacy Project team will work with the successful intern, to help them build on their existing skills and develop those that are new to them, with the aim of delivering a great internship, a sound personal development experience and a better environment for all involved. We are flexible and can confirm nearer the time whether this placement will be part or fully home-based (virtual), or in our office location.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We particularly encourage applications from individuals who are Black, Asian, or an ethnic minority in the UK, as well as those from working class backgrounds, and those with disability, who are currently under-represented within The Carbon Literacy Project and the wider environmental sector.
The Carbon Literacy Project is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to support volunteers from different backgrounds.
Job Title: Video Media Intern
Team: Marketing & Communications
Salary: The role is not formally paid, although reasonable public transport (including bike mileage) travel expenses are paid, and there is a daily £5 allowance for lunch, when traveling into our city centre location.
As part of our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion, we plan to introduce a grant scheme for our placements, either across the board or means-tested, to ensure those who can’t afford unpaid placements can access the same opportunities within The Carbon Literacy Project. This work is currently ongoing and not guaranteed.
Expected Start Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2022
Expected End Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2023 (dependent on start date)
Expected Duration: 12 months – Working 3 days per week with The Carbon Literacy Project, then 2 days in paid employment elsewhere to support yourself financially through the placement. (Please ensure your University and Department allows for this form of placement set-up before applying)
Location: At our Manchester office environment, with the option to work remotely.
Expected Leave: 20 working days pa pro rata + statutory bank holidays + Christmas closure
Closing Date: 2nd June 2022
Interviews w/c: TBC – Mid May / June
How To Apply: Please fill in the Carbon Literacy Internship Application Form to provide your personal and contact details, and evidence of how you match the criteria for the role in which you are applying.
About The Project:
The Carbon Literacy Project (CLP) is a celebrated multi-award winning, globally unique climate change learning-and-doing project founded in Manchester. It is a registered charity (No 1156722) and is run on behalf of its trustees (The Carbon Literacy Trust) by founders Cooler Projects CIC, based at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Innospace. Based on a unique flexible framework for a day’s-worth of highly relevant climate-change learning, and with large-scale take-up across the UK and Europe, more than 29,000 learners have now been certified as Carbon Literate.
Carbon Literacy learning and certification covers the essentials of climate change, carbon footprints, how an individual can ‘do their bit’, and why it’s relevant from individual to organisation. Carbon Literacy (CL) is aimed at three distinct audiences – those that live, those that work, and, those that study. This allows The Project to capture all audiences with specific knowledge and motivation in its aim to offer every citizen Carbon Literacy.
The Project prides itself on its track record supporting interns and volunteers; see: http://carbonliteracy.com/work-with-us/past-volunteers/. In fact, other than the founders, all of our current staff started out volunteering with The Project!
When interning with The Carbon Literacy Project, we will help you to develop knowledge and skills relevant to your desired career path and where possible will look to customise the work you do and involve you in the areas of work that will best support your longer-term career ambitions.
We ensure that all our volunteers and interns are Carbon Literacy trained. If you’re not already Carbon Literate when you join us, we will find a course for you so that you can gain this and potentially other certifications with us, as part of your skills portfolio.
Role Description:
As Video Media Intern, you will play a key role in our small but dedicated Marketing and Communications Team, bringing forward your strong video editing skills as well as fresh ideas for improving and creating video content. You will be assigned personal responsibilities and tasks relating to existing and new video campaigns. The Carbon Literacy Project has a large but relatively underutilised bank of video footage of testimonials from trainers and learners across the broad range of sectors Carbon Literacy training is delivered in. Our presence across video hosting platforms, Vimeo and YouTube, also remains relatively underexplored. In this role, you will help to expand and improve our video content and presence on video hosting platforms.
Some of the work you might typically be involved in is likely to include:
We are also happy to work with you in expanding on tasks and projects you are involved in across The Carbon Literacy Project, depending on the skills you have and the skills you wish to develop. We would expect the customisation of work you do to be conducted in a way that maximises its usefulness to both you and The Carbon Literacy Project.
Key personal attributes:
Essential skills/experience:
Desirable skills/experience:
We don’t expect any intern to arrive with all of these skills in place, and also know that you will probably arrive with many other existing skills that we haven’t thought of listing, but The Carbon Literacy Project team will work with the successful intern, to help them build on their existing skills and develop those that are new to them, with the aim of delivering a great internship, a sound personal development experience and a better environment for all involved. We are flexible and can confirm nearer the time whether this placement will be part or fully home-based (virtual), or in our office location.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We particularly encourage applications from individuals who are Black, Asian, or an ethnic minority in the UK, as well as those from working class backgrounds, and those with disability, who are currently under-represented within The Carbon Literacy Project and the wider environmental sector.
The Carbon Literacy Project is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to support volunteers from different backgrounds.
Job Title: Automotive Intern
Team: Sector Toolkits
Salary: The role is not formally paid, although reasonable public transport (including bike mileage) travel expenses are paid, and there is a daily £5 allowance for lunch, when traveling into our city centre location.
As part of our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion, we plan to introduce a grant scheme for our placements, either across the board or means-tested, to ensure those who can’t afford unpaid placements can access the same opportunities within The Carbon Literacy Project. This work is currently ongoing and not guaranteed.
Expected Start Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2022
Expected End Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2023 (dependent on start date)
Expected Duration: 12 months – Working 3 days per week with The Carbon Literacy Project, then 2 days in paid employment elsewhere to support yourself financially through the placement. (Please ensure your University and Department allows for this form of placement set-up before applying)
Location: At our Manchester office environment, with the option to work remotely.
Expected Leave: 20 working days pa pro rata + statutory bank holidays + Christmas closure
Closing Date: 2nd June 2022
Interviews w/c: TBC – Mid May / June
How To Apply: Please fill in the Carbon Literacy Internship Application Form to provide your personal and contact details, and evidence of how you match the criteria for the role in which you are applying.
About The Project:
The Carbon Literacy Project (CLP) is a celebrated multi-award winning, globally unique climate change learning-and-doing project founded in Manchester. It is a registered charity (No 1156722) and is run on behalf of its trustees (The Carbon Literacy Trust) by founders Cooler Projects CIC, based at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Innospace. Based on a unique flexible framework for a day’s-worth of highly relevant climate-change learning, and with large-scale take-up across the UK and Europe, more than 29,000 learners have now been certified as Carbon Literate.
Carbon Literacy learning and certification covers the essentials of climate change, carbon footprints, how an individual can ‘do their bit’, and why it’s relevant from individual to organisation. Carbon Literacy (CL) is aimed at three distinct audiences – those that live, those that work, and, those that study. This allows The Project to capture all audiences with specific knowledge and motivation in its aim to offer every citizen Carbon Literacy.
The Project prides itself on its track record supporting interns and volunteers; see: http://carbonliteracy.com/work-with-us/past-volunteers/. In fact, other than the founders, all of our current staff started out volunteering with The Project!
When interning with The Carbon Literacy Project, we will help you to develop knowledge and skills relevant to your desired career path and where possible will look to customise the work you do and involve you in the areas of work that will best support your longer-term career ambitions.
We ensure that all our volunteers and interns are Carbon Literacy trained. If you’re not already Carbon Literate when you join us, we will find a course for you so that you can gain this and potentially other certifications with us, as part of your skills portfolio.
Role Description:
As an Automotive Intern with The Carbon Literacy Project, you will be fully immersed in the workings of our small team, pitching in with daily activities, being assigned personal responsibilities and tasks, and carrying out specific project work as and when the need arises. Your work within the Sector Toolkit team will involve working closely with the automotive sector-lead to support the dissemination and development of current and future toolkits. You will learn about the structure and culture of the automotive sector and work alongside stakeholders and organisations delivering Carbon Literacy. Within this role you will build relationships with professionals in the automotive industry and understand the practicalities of running Carbon Literacy training to working groups in automotive.
Some of the work you might typically be involved in is likely to include specific sector work and additional general project work:
We are also happy to work with you in expanding on tasks and projects you are involved in across The Carbon Literacy Project, depending on the skills you have and the skills you wish to develop. We would expect the customisation of work you do to be conducted in a way that maximises its usefulness to both you and The Carbon Literacy Project.
What you will gain from the placement:
Key personal attributes:
Essential skills/experience:
Desirable skills/experience:
We don’t expect any intern to arrive with all of these skills in place, and also know that you will probably arrive with many other existing skills that we haven’t thought of listing, but The Carbon Literacy Project team will work with the successful intern, to help them build on their existing skills and develop those that are new to them, with the aim of delivering a great internship, a sound personal development experience and a better environment for all involved. We are flexible and can confirm nearer the time whether this placement will be part or fully home-based (virtual), or in our office location.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We particularly encourage applications from individuals who are Black, Asian, or an ethnic minority in the UK, as well as those from working class backgrounds, and those with disability, who are currently under-represented within The Carbon Literacy Project and the wider environmental sector.
The Carbon Literacy Project is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to support volunteers from different backgrounds.
Job Title: Civil Service Intern
Team: Sector Toolkits
Salary: The role is not formally paid, although reasonable public transport (including bike mileage) travel expenses are paid, and there is a daily £5 allowance for lunch, when traveling into our city centre location.
As part of our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion, we plan to introduce a grant scheme for our placements, either across the board or means-tested, to ensure those who can’t afford unpaid placements can access the same opportunities within The Carbon Literacy Project. This work is currently ongoing and not guaranteed.
Expected Start Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2022
Expected End Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2023 (dependent on start date)
Expected Duration: 12 months – Working 3 days per week with The Carbon Literacy Project, then 2 days in paid employment elsewhere to support yourself financially through the placement. (Please ensure your University and Department allows for this form of placement set-up before applying)
Location: At our Manchester office environment, with the option to work remotely.
Expected Leave: 20 working days pa pro rata + statutory bank holidays + Christmas closure
Closing Date: 2nd June 2022
Interviews w/c: TBC – Mid May / June
How To Apply: Please fill in the Carbon Literacy Internship Application Form to provide your personal and contact details, and evidence of how you match the criteria for the role in which you are applying.
About The Project:
The Carbon Literacy Project (CLP) is a celebrated multi-award winning, globally unique climate change learning-and-doing project founded in Manchester. It is a registered charity (No 1156722) and is run on behalf of its trustees (The Carbon Literacy Trust) by founders Cooler Projects CIC, based at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Innospace. Based on a unique flexible framework for a day’s-worth of highly relevant climate-change learning, and with large-scale take-up across the UK and Europe, more than 29,000 learners have now been certified as Carbon Literate.
Carbon Literacy learning and certification covers the essentials of climate change, carbon footprints, how an individual can ‘do their bit’, and why it’s relevant from individual to organisation. Carbon Literacy (CL) is aimed at three distinct audiences – those that live, those that work, and, those that study. This allows The Project to capture all audiences with specific knowledge and motivation in its aim to offer every citizen Carbon Literacy.
The Project prides itself on its track record supporting interns and volunteers; see: http://carbonliteracy.com/work-with-us/past-volunteers/. In fact, other than the founders, all of our current staff started out volunteering with The Project!
When interning with The Carbon Literacy Project, we will help you to develop knowledge and skills relevant to your desired career path and where possible will look to customise the work you do and involve you in the areas of work that will best support your longer-term career ambitions.
We ensure that all our volunteers and interns are Carbon Literacy trained. If you’re not already Carbon Literate when you join us, we will find a course for you so that you can gain this and potentially other certifications with us, as part of your skills portfolio.
Role Description:
As a Civil Service Intern with The Carbon Literacy Project, you will be fully immersed in the workings of our small team, pitching in with daily activities, being assigned personal responsibilities and tasks, and carrying out specific project work as and when the need arises. Your work within the Sector Toolkit team as an intern will involve working closely with your sector lead to support the dissemination and development of current and future toolkits. You will learn about the structure and culture of the sector and work alongside stakeholders and organisations delivering Carbon Literacy. Within this role you will build relationships with sector professionals and understand the practicalities of running Carbon Literacy training to working groups belonging to the sector.
Some of the work you might typically be involved in is likely to include specific sector work and additional general project work:
We are also happy to work with you in expanding on tasks and projects you are involved in across The Carbon Literacy Project, depending on the skills you have and the skills you wish to develop. We would expect the customisation of work you do to be conducted in a way that maximises its usefulness to both you and The Carbon Literacy Project.
What you will gain from the placement:
Key personal attributes:
Essential skills/experience:
Desirable skills/experience:
We don’t expect any intern to arrive with all of these skills in place, and also know that you will probably arrive with many other existing skills that we haven’t thought of listing, but The Carbon Literacy Project team will work with the successful intern, to help them build on their existing skills and develop those that are new to them, with the aim of delivering a great internship, a sound personal development experience and a better environment for all involved. We are flexible and can confirm nearer the time whether this placement will be part or fully home-based (virtual), or in our office location.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We particularly encourage applications from individuals who are Black, Asian, or an ethnic minority in the UK, as well as those from working class backgrounds, and those with disability, who are currently under-represented within The Carbon Literacy Project and the wider environmental sector.
The Carbon Literacy Project is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to support volunteers from different backgrounds.
Job Title: Healthcare and Blue-Light Intern
Team: Sector Toolkits
Salary: The role is not formally paid, although reasonable public transport (including bike mileage) travel expenses are paid, and there is a daily £5 allowance for lunch, when traveling into our city centre location.
As part of our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion, we plan to introduce a grant scheme for our placements, either across the board or means-tested, to ensure those who can’t afford unpaid placements can access the same opportunities within The Carbon Literacy Project. This work is currently ongoing and not guaranteed.
Expected Start Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2022
Expected End Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2023 (dependent on start date)
Expected Duration: 12 months – Working 3 days per week with The Carbon Literacy Project, then 2 days in paid employment elsewhere to support yourself financially through the placement. (Please ensure your University and Department allows for this form of placement set-up before applying)
Location: At our Manchester office environment, with the option to work remotely.
Expected Leave: 20 working days pa pro rata + statutory bank holidays + Christmas closure
Closing Date: 2nd June 2022
Interviews w/c: TBC – Mid May / June
How To Apply: Please fill in the Carbon Literacy Internship Application Form to provide your personal and contact details, and evidence of how you match the criteria for the role in which you are applying.
About The Role:
The Carbon Literacy Project (CLP) is a celebrated multi-award winning, globally unique climate change learning-and-doing project founded in Manchester. It is a registered charity (No 1156722) and is run on behalf of its trustees (The Carbon Literacy Trust) by founders Cooler Projects CIC, based at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Innospace. Based on a unique flexible framework for a day’s-worth of highly relevant climate-change learning, and with large-scale take-up across the UK and Europe, more than 29,000 learners have now been certified as Carbon Literate.
Carbon Literacy learning and certification covers the essentials of climate change, carbon footprints, how an individual can ‘do their bit’, and why it’s relevant from individual to organisation. Carbon Literacy (CL) is aimed at three distinct audiences – those that live, those that work, and, those that study. This allows The Project to capture all audiences with specific knowledge and motivation in its aim to offer every citizen Carbon Literacy.
The Project prides itself on its track record supporting interns and volunteers; see: http://carbonliteracy.com/work-with-us/past-volunteers/. In fact, other than the founders, all of our current staff started out volunteering with The Project!
When interning with The Carbon Literacy Project, we will help you to develop knowledge and skills relevant to your desired career path and where possible will look to customise the work you do and involve you in the areas of work that will best support your longer-term career ambitions.
We ensure that all our volunteers and interns are Carbon Literacy trained. If you’re not already Carbon Literate when you join us, we will find a course for you so that you can gain this and potentially other certifications with us, as part of your skills portfolio.
Role Description:
As a Healthcare & Blue Light Intern with The Carbon Literacy Project, you will be fully immersed in the workings of our small team, pitching in with daily activities, being assigned personal responsibilities and tasks, and carrying out specific project work as and when the need arises. Your work within the Sector Toolkit team will involve working closely with your sector lead in healthcare to support the dissemination and development of current and future toolkits. You will learn about the structure and culture of the healthcare sector and work alongside stakeholders and organisations delivering Carbon Literacy both within the NHS and within external healthcare providers. Within this role you will build relationships with sector professionals and understand the practicalities of running Carbon Literacy training to working groups within the NHS.
Some of the work you might typically be involved in is likely to include specific sector work and additional general project work:
We are also happy to work with you in expanding on tasks and projects you are involved in across The Carbon Literacy Project, depending on the skills you have and the skills you wish to develop. We would expect the customisation of work you do to be conducted in a way that maximises its usefulness to both you and The Carbon Literacy Project.
What you will gain from the placement:
Key personal attributes:
Essential skills/experience:
Desirable skills/experience:
We don’t expect any intern to arrive with all of these skills in place, and also know that you will probably arrive with many other existing skills that we haven’t thought of listing, but The Carbon Literacy Project team will work with the successful intern, to help them build on their existing skills and develop those that are new to them, with the aim of delivering a great internship, a sound personal development experience and a better environment for all involved. We are flexible and can confirm nearer the time whether this placement will be part or fully home-based (virtual), or in our office location.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We particularly encourage applications from individuals who are Black, Asian, or an ethnic minority in the UK, as well as those from working class backgrounds, and those with disability, who are currently under-represented within The Carbon Literacy Project and the wider environmental sector.
The Carbon Literacy Project is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to support volunteers from different backgrounds.
Job Title: Local Authorities Intern
Team: Sector Toolkits
Salary: The role is not formally paid, although reasonable public transport (including bike mileage) travel expenses are paid, and there is a daily £5 allowance for lunch, when traveling into our city centre location.
As part of our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion, we plan to introduce a grant scheme for our placements, either across the board or means-tested, to ensure those who can’t afford unpaid placements can access the same opportunities within The Carbon Literacy Project. This work is currently ongoing and not guaranteed.
Expected Start Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2022
Expected End Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2023 (dependent on start date)
Expected Duration: 12 months – Working 3 days per week with The Carbon Literacy Project, then 2 days in paid employment elsewhere to support yourself financially through the placement. (Please ensure your University and Department allows for this form of placement set-up before applying)
Location: At our Manchester office environment, with the option to work remotely.
Expected Leave: 20 working days pa pro rata + statutory bank holidays + Christmas closure
Closing Date: 2nd June 2022
Interviews w/c: TBC – Mid May / June
How To Apply: Please fill in the Carbon Literacy Internship Application Form to provide your personal and contact details, and evidence of how you match the criteria for the role in which you are applying.
About The Project
The Carbon Literacy Project (CLP) is a celebrated multi-award winning, globally unique climate change learning-and-doing project founded in Manchester. It is a registered charity (No 1156722) and is run on behalf of its trustees (The Carbon Literacy Trust) by founders Cooler Projects CIC, based at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Innospace. Based on a unique flexible framework for a day’s-worth of highly relevant climate-change learning, and with large-scale take-up across the UK and Europe, more than 29,000 learners have now been certified as Carbon Literate.
Carbon Literacy learning and certification covers the essentials of climate change, carbon footprints, how an individual can ‘do their bit’, and why it’s relevant from individual to organisation. Carbon Literacy (CL) is aimed at three distinct audiences – those that live, those that work, and, those that study. This allows The Project to capture all audiences with specific knowledge and motivation in its aim to offer every citizen Carbon Literacy.
The Project prides itself on its track record supporting interns and volunteers; see: http://carbonliteracy.com/work-with-us/past-volunteers/. In fact, other than the founders, all of our current staff started out volunteering with The Project!
When interning with The Carbon Literacy Project, we will help you to develop knowledge and skills relevant to your desired career path and where possible will look to customise the work you do and involve you in the areas of work that will best support your longer-term career ambitions.
We ensure that all our volunteers and interns are Carbon Literacy trained. If you’re not already Carbon Literate when you join us, we will find a course for you so that you can gain this and potentially other certifications with us, as part of your skills portfolio.
Role Description:
As a Local Authorities Intern with The Carbon Literacy Project, you will be fully immersed in the workings of our small team, pitching in with daily activities, being assigned personal responsibilities and tasks, and carrying out specific project work as and when the need arises. Your work within the Sector Toolkit team as an intern will involve working closely with your sector lead to support the dissemination and development of current and future toolkits. You will learn about the structure and culture of the sector and work alongside stakeholders and organisations delivering Carbon Literacy. Within this role you will build relationships with sector professionals and understand the practicalities of running Carbon Literacy training to working groups belonging to the sector.
Some of the work you might typically be involved in is likely to include:
We are also happy to work with you in expanding on tasks and projects you are involved in across The Carbon Literacy Project, depending on the skills you have and the skills you wish to develop. We would expect the customisation of work you do to be conducted in a way that maximises its usefulness to both you and The Carbon Literacy Project.
What you will gain from the placement:
Key personal attributes:
Essential skills/experience:
Desirable skills/experience:
We don’t expect any intern to arrive with all of these skills in place, and also know that you will probably arrive with many other existing skills that we haven’t thought of listing, but The Carbon Literacy Project team will work with the successful intern, to help them build on their existing skills and develop those that are new to them, with the aim of delivering a great internship, a sound personal development experience and a better environment for all involved. We are flexible and can confirm nearer the time whether this placement will be part or fully home-based (virtual), or in our office location.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We particularly encourage applications from individuals who are Black, Asian, or an ethnic minority in the UK, as well as those from working class backgrounds, and those with disability, who are currently under-represented within The Carbon Literacy Project and the wider environmental sector.
The Carbon Literacy Project is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to support volunteers from different backgrounds.
Job Title: Museums Intern
Team: Sector Toolkits
Salary: The role is not formally paid, although reasonable public transport (including bike mileage) travel expenses are paid, and there is a daily £5 allowance for lunch, when traveling into our city centre location.
As part of our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion, we plan to introduce a grant scheme for our placements, either across the board or means-tested, to ensure those who can’t afford unpaid placements can access the same opportunities within The Carbon Literacy Project. This work is currently ongoing and not guaranteed.
Expected Start Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2022
Expected End Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2023 (dependent on start date)
Expected Duration: 12 months – Working 3 days per week with The Carbon Literacy Project, then 2 days in paid employment elsewhere to support yourself financially through the placement. (Please ensure your University and Department allows for this form of placement set-up before applying)
Location: At our Manchester office environment, with the option to work remotely.
Expected Leave: 20 working days pa pro rata + statutory bank holidays + Christmas closure
Closing Date: 2nd June 2022
Interviews w/c: TBC – Mid May / June
How To Apply: Please fill in the Carbon Literacy Internship Application Form to provide your personal and contact details, and evidence of how you match the criteria for the role in which you are applying.
About The Project:
The Carbon Literacy Project (CLP) is a celebrated multi-award winning, globally unique climate change learning-and-doing project founded in Manchester. It is a registered charity (No 1156722) and is run on behalf of its trustees (The Carbon Literacy Trust) by founders Cooler Projects CIC, based at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Innospace. Based on a unique flexible framework for a day’s-worth of highly relevant climate-change learning, and with large-scale take-up across the UK and Europe, more than 29,000 learners have now been certified as Carbon Literate.
Carbon Literacy learning and certification covers the essentials of climate change, carbon footprints, how an individual can ‘do their bit’, and why it’s relevant from individual to organisation. Carbon Literacy (CL) is aimed at three distinct audiences – those that live, those that work, and, those that study. This allows The Project to capture all audiences with specific knowledge and motivation in its aim to offer every citizen Carbon Literacy.
The Project prides itself on its track record supporting interns and volunteers; see: http://carbonliteracy.com/work-with-us/past-volunteers/. In fact, other than the founders, all of our current staff started out volunteering with The Project!
When interning with The Carbon Literacy Project, we will help you to develop knowledge and skills relevant to your desired career path and where possible will look to customise the work you do and involve you in the areas of work that will best support your longer-term career ambitions.
We ensure that all our volunteers and interns are Carbon Literacy trained. If you’re not already Carbon Literate when you join us, we will find a course for you so that you can gain this and potentially other certifications with us, as part of your skills portfolio.
Role Description:
As a Museums Intern with The Carbon Literacy Project, you will be fully immersed in the workings of our small team, pitching in with daily activities, being assigned personal responsibilities and tasks, and carrying out specific project work as and when the need arises. Your work within the Sector Toolkit team, in particular the museums sector, will involve working closely with your sector lead to support the dissemination and development of current and future toolkits. You will learn about the structure and culture of the sector and work alongside stakeholders and organisations delivering Carbon Literacy. Within this role you will build relationships with sector professionals and understand the practicalities of running Carbon Literacy training to working groups belonging to the sector.
Some of the work you might typically be involved in is likely to include specific sector work and additional general project work:
We are also happy to work with you in expanding on tasks and projects you are involved in across The Carbon Literacy Project, depending on the skills you have and the skills you wish to develop. We would expect the customisation of work you do to be conducted in a way that maximises its usefulness to both you and The Carbon Literacy Project.
What you will gain from the placement:
Key personal attributes:
Essential skills/experience:
Desirable skills/experience:
We don’t expect any intern to arrive with all of these skills in place, and also know that you will probably arrive with many other existing skills that we haven’t thought of listing, but The Carbon Literacy Project team will work with the successful intern, to help them build on their existing skills and develop those that are new to them, with the aim of delivering a great internship, a sound personal development experience and a better environment for all involved. We are flexible and can confirm nearer the time whether this placement will be part or fully home-based (virtual), or in our office location.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We particularly encourage applications from individuals who are Black, Asian, or an ethnic minority in the UK, as well as those from working class backgrounds, and those with disability, who are currently under-represented within The Carbon Literacy Project and the wider environmental sector.
The Carbon Literacy Project is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to support volunteers from different backgrounds.
Job Title: Social Housing Intern
Team: Sector Toolkits
Salary: The role is not formally paid, although reasonable public transport (including bike mileage) travel expenses are paid, and there is a daily £5 allowance for lunch, when traveling into our city centre location.
As part of our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion, we plan to introduce a grant scheme for our placements, either across the board or means-tested, to ensure those who can’t afford unpaid placements can access the same opportunities within The Carbon Literacy Project. This work is currently ongoing and not guaranteed.
Expected Start Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2022
Expected End Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2023 (dependent on start date)
Expected Duration: 12 months – Working 3 days per week with The Carbon Literacy Project, then 2 days in paid employment elsewhere to support yourself financially through the placement. (Please ensure your University and Department allows for this form of placement set-up before applying)
Location: At our Manchester office environment, with the option to work remotely.
Expected Leave: 20 working days pa pro rata + statutory bank holidays + Christmas closure
Closing Date: 2nd June 2022
Interviews w/c: TBC – Mid May / June
How To Apply: Please fill in the Carbon Literacy Internship Application Form to provide your personal and contact details, and evidence of how you match the criteria for the role in which you are applying.
About The Project:
The Carbon Literacy Project (CLP) is a celebrated multi-award winning, globally unique climate change learning-and-doing project founded in Manchester. It is a registered charity (No 1156722) and is run on behalf of its trustees (The Carbon Literacy Trust) by founders Cooler Projects CIC, based at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Innospace. Based on a unique flexible framework for a day’s-worth of highly relevant climate-change learning, and with large-scale take-up across the UK and Europe, more than 29,000 learners have now been certified as Carbon Literate.
Carbon Literacy learning and certification covers the essentials of climate change, carbon footprints, how an individual can ‘do their bit’, and why it’s relevant from individual to organisation. Carbon Literacy (CL) is aimed at three distinct audiences – those that live, those that work, and, those that study. This allows The Project to capture all audiences with specific knowledge and motivation in its aim to offer every citizen Carbon Literacy.
The Project prides itself on its track record supporting interns and volunteers; see: http://carbonliteracy.com/work-with-us/past-volunteers/. In fact, other than the founders, all of our current staff started out volunteering with The Project!
When interning with The Carbon Literacy Project, we will help you to develop knowledge and skills relevant to your desired career path and where possible will look to customise the work you do and involve you in the areas of work that will best support your longer-term career ambitions.
We ensure that all our volunteers and interns are Carbon Literacy trained. If you’re not already Carbon Literate when you join us, we will find a course for you so that you can gain this and potentially other certifications with us, as part of your skills portfolio.
Role Description:
As a Social Housing Intern with The Carbon Literacy Project, you will be fully immersed in the workings of our small team, pitching in with daily activities, being assigned personal responsibilities and tasks, and carrying out specific project work as and when the need arises. Your work within the Sector Toolkit team will involve working closely with the Social Housing Lead to support the dissemination and development of current and future toolkits. You will learn about the structure and culture of the social housing sector and work alongside stakeholders and organisations delivering Carbon Literacy. Within this role you will build relationships with sector professionals and understand the practicalities of running Carbon Literacy training to working groups belonging to the sector.
Some of the work you might typically be involved in is likely to include specific sector work and additional general project work:
We are also happy to work with you in expanding on tasks and projects you are involved in across The Carbon Literacy Project, depending on the skills you have and the skills you wish to develop. We would expect the customisation of work you do to be conducted in a way that maximises its usefulness to both you and The Carbon Literacy Project.
What you will gain from the placement:
Key personal attributes:
Essential skills/experience:
Desirable skills/experience:
We don’t expect any intern to arrive with all of these skills in place, and also know that you will probably arrive with many other existing skills that we haven’t thought of listing, but The Carbon Literacy Project team will work with the successful intern, to help them build on their existing skills and develop those that are new to them, with the aim of delivering a great internship, a sound personal development experience and a better environment for all involved. We are flexible and can confirm nearer the time whether this placement will be part or fully home-based (virtual), or in our office location.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We particularly encourage applications from individuals who are Black, Asian, or an ethnic minority in the UK, as well as those from working class backgrounds, and those with disability, who are currently under-represented within The Carbon Literacy Project and the wider environmental sector.
The Carbon Literacy Project is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to support volunteers from different backgrounds.
Job Title: Universities & Colleges Intern
Team: Sector Toolkits
Salary: The role is not formally paid, although reasonable public transport (including bike mileage) travel expenses are paid, and there is a daily £5 allowance for lunch, when traveling into our city centre location.
As part of our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion, we plan to introduce a grant scheme for our placements, either across the board or means-tested, to ensure those who can’t afford unpaid placements can access the same opportunities within The Carbon Literacy Project. This work is currently ongoing and not guaranteed.
Expected Start Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2022
Expected End Date: Between 1st July & 10th September 2023 (dependent on start date)
Expected Duration: 12 months – Working 3 days per week with The Carbon Literacy Project, then 2 days in paid employment elsewhere to support yourself financially through the placement. (Please ensure your University and Department allows for this form of placement set-up before applying)
Location: At our Manchester office environment, with the option to work remotely.
Expected Leave: 20 working days pa pro rata + statutory bank holidays + Christmas closure
Closing Date: 2nd June 2022
Interviews w/c: TBC – Mid May / June
How To Apply: Please fill in the Carbon Literacy Internship Application Form to provide your personal and contact details, and evidence of how you match the criteria for the role in which you are applying.
About The Project:
The Carbon Literacy Project (CLP) is a celebrated multi-award winning, globally unique climate change learning-and-doing project founded in Manchester. It is a registered charity (No 1156722) and is run on behalf of its trustees (The Carbon Literacy Trust) by founders Cooler Projects CIC, based at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Innospace. Based on a unique flexible framework for a day’s-worth of highly relevant climate-change learning, and with large-scale take-up across the UK and Europe, more than 29,000 learners have now been certified as Carbon Literate.
Carbon Literacy learning and certification covers the essentials of climate change, carbon footprints, how an individual can ‘do their bit’, and why it’s relevant from individual to organisation. Carbon Literacy (CL) is aimed at three distinct audiences – those that live, those that work, and, those that study. This allows The Project to capture all audiences with specific knowledge and motivation in its aim to offer every citizen Carbon Literacy.
The Project prides itself on its track record supporting interns and volunteers; see: http://carbonliteracy.com/work-with-us/past-volunteers/. In fact, other than the founders, all of our current staff started out volunteering with The Project!
When interning with The Carbon Literacy Project, we will help you to develop knowledge and skills relevant to your desired career path and where possible will look to customise the work you do and involve you in the areas of work that will best support your longer-term career ambitions.
We ensure that all our volunteers and interns are Carbon Literacy trained. If you’re not already Carbon Literate when you join us, we will find a course for you so that you can gain this and potentially other certifications with us, as part of your skills portfolio.
Role Description:
As a Universities & Colleges Intern with The Carbon Literacy Project, you will be fully immersed in the workings of our small team, pitching in with daily activities, being assigned personal responsibilities and tasks, and carrying out specific project work as and when the need arises. Your work within the Sector Toolkit team will involve working closely with the Universities and Colleges sector lead to support the dissemination and development of current and future toolkits. You will learn about the structure and culture of the Higher Education sector and work alongside stakeholders and organisations delivering Carbon Literacy. Within this role you will build relationships with sector professionals and understand the practicalities of running Carbon Literacy training to working groups belonging to the sector.
Some of the work you might typically be involved in is likely to include sector specific work and additional general project work:
We are also happy to work with you in expanding on tasks and projects you are involved in across The Carbon Literacy Project, depending on the skills you have and the skills you wish to develop. We would expect the customisation of work you do to be conducted in a way that maximises its usefulness to both you and The Carbon Literacy Project.
What you will gain from the placement:
Key personal attributes:
Essential skills/experience:
Desirable skills/experience:
We don’t expect any intern to arrive with all of these skills in place, and also know that you will probably arrive with many other existing skills that we haven’t thought of listing, but The Carbon Literacy Project team will work with the successful intern, to help them build on their existing skills and develop those that are new to them, with the aim of delivering a great internship, a sound personal development experience and a better environment for all involved. We are flexible and can confirm nearer the time whether this placement will be part or fully home-based (virtual), or in our office location.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We particularly encourage applications from individuals who are Black, Asian, or an ethnic minority in the UK, as well as those from working class backgrounds, and those with disability, who are currently under-represented within The Carbon Literacy Project and the wider environmental sector.
The Carbon Literacy Project is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to support volunteers from different backgrounds.
Voting
We are taking action against climate change, and in doing so, we are taking very direct responsibility for our economy, our planet, and our way of life. We, therefore, ask that our volunteers and employees be registered to vote – here’s why.