2Way Development places 100’s of volunteers overseas every year to work alongside development charities in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. At the heart of our work is our commitment to facilitating placements that develop a volunteer’s skills and the work of our partner charities equally. All our placements are organised on an individual basis - we match our volunteer’s abilities and goals to the needs of our partner charities carefully. Our placements therefore give volunteers the opportunity to build up relevant experience to their long-term career goals, whilst at the same time contributing to a specific need in a charity or NGO working in international development.
We support over 100 well-established grassroots organisations around the world, with whom we place our volunteers. Our partners are fully vetted and are not-for-profit, civil society organisations that are locally run, addressing issues of poverty reduction, environmental protection or social justice. Our partners are currently based in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Fiji, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Paraguay, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and the West Bank.
Careers and Events
We are a careers based agency, working to provide opportunities for people who want to devote their working lives to issues of international development. As well as arranging overseas placements we organise careers conferences every quarter, held in London, that are widely recognised in the sector. These events, sponsored by Guardian Careers, feature speakers from some of the world’s largest and most influential development agencies.
We charge a flat rate fee of £850 that covers our work in arranging placements of 3-24 months. Our fee includes the following key benefits to volunteers:
- Personal advice and guidance sessions before, during and after a placement
- 3 placement options, handpicked for volunteers
- Individual role outline
- Pre-departure training course, handbooks and country guides
- Overseas placement supervisor and in-country 2Way Development representative
- Mentoring and emergency assistance overseas including a 24-hour emergency hotline
- Post placement services – placement de-brief, one-to-one careers advisory session, CV re-write, plus free and unlimited access to our careers conferences
Step 1 Online Application
Our online application is designed to start focussing your placement preferences and goals – this application provides the foundations to our eventual work with you. Contact us 3-6 months before you would like to volunteer.
Step 2 Phone Interview
We like to talk to all prospective volunteers by phone – you will always get to meet or talk with our staff individually before making any decisions about volunteering with us. After your interview you will have a very good picture of what your placement with 2Way Development will look like.
Step 3 Fees & Options
Once you have completed your application and interview with us and you are happy with the placement criteria we have established with you, we ask you pay a £350 deposit of our fee in order for you to receive your individual placement options.
Live Placement Examples featured online with Charity Job
Our Careers Conferences: http://2waydevelopmentconference.eventbrite.com
Live Q&A with Katherine Tubb, founder 2Way Development on Guardian Careers
2Way Development advises Lonely Planet on Volunteering see the recent 2010 Volunteering Guide
Our Blog: http://2waydevelopment.wordpress.com
Live Volunteer Blogs Ricky Grice in Kenya, Kat Collis in Rwanda, Stella in Kenya
2Way Development is an official partner of the Foreign Office's Know Before You Go Campaign http://tinyurl.com/63pzyue
CNN follows our volunteer Lizzie in Tanzania Be the Change
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Looking forward to talking to students about careers in Development at @CareersGroup London on 6th Feb
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@DFID_UK launches paid, 50 week development programme open for applications until 20 March 2012. http://t.co/VJzhUFGd
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Thank you to Tristan our Rep in Mexico @CRMexico1 for meeting Sarah from the airport last night. Good luck in your placement Sarah!
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Sent out some great options to our new volunteers this week. Really exciting placements abroad to help people build skills in development.
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