Apply Now: Commonwealth Foundation Graduate Internship Programme 2025 (Paid, UK-Based)

The Commonwealth Foundation is recruiting for its Graduate Internship Programme. We are looking for 4 Interns for six-month placements throughout totally different areas of the Foundation.

To be thought-about, all candidates will need to have an present proper to work within the United Kingdom and should be capable of present proof of that proper of their application.

The deadline for purposes is Monday, 14 April. However, we reserve the best to shut the application window if we obtain sufficient high quality purposes. We suggest submitting as early as attainable.

Whats the Commonwealth Foundation

The Commonwealth Foundation is an intergovernmental organisation established by Member States in help of the assumption that the Commonwealth is as a lot an affiliation of peoples as it’s of governments. We are the Commonwealth company for civil society; an organisation devoted to strengthening individuals’s participation in all elements of public dialogue, to allow them to act collectively and study from one another to construct democratic societies. 

Our imaginative and prescient is of a Commonwealth of equal, simply and inclusive societies. Our mission is to contribute to that imaginative and prescient by: 

• Supporting the energetic and constructive participation of Commonwealth residents in all elements of their governance 

• Nurturing the expansion of vibrant and free civil societies in all Commonwealth nations 

• Advancing the rules and beliefs of the Commonwealth 

We work in accordance with our values to advance the rules and beliefs of the Commonwealth as enshrined within the Commonwealth Charter. 

The function 

The  Commonwealth Foundation Graduate Internship Programme offers alternatives for current graduates to take part in all elements of the Commonwealth Foundation and acquire expertise, strengthen their information and develop their abilities. 

Commonwealth Foundation  preserve a workforce of interns who’re recruited collectively for a six-month interval, which can be prolonged to a most of 12 months relying on efficiency and the wants of the Foundation. Our interns are absolutely built-in into the Foundation’s workers construction, and we pay shut consideration to their skilled improvement. 

The profitable candidates will likely be allotted to one of many following areas of our work: 

• Commonwealth Civil Society (home of our main grants work) 

• Advocacy & Creative Programme (home of our cultural initiatives together with adda and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, outreach, advocacy, the Critical Conversations occasions collection, and supply of the Commonwealth People’s Forum)  

• Communications (working throughout the Foundation as part of the Knowledge, Learning & Communications workforce) 

Responsibilities are tailor-made the wants of every workforce and the intern’s personal areas of talent and curiosity. For extra info on our programmes and our work, see our present Strategic Plan. 

Although interns will likely be primarily based in one of many above programmes, we’re a small workforce, and so interns could have the chance to expertise different areas of the Foundation’s work and to additionally collaborate with their fellow interns on particular tasks. 

Commonwealth Foundation accountability to Interns 

We prioritise the skilled improvement of our interns, encouraging participation in each inside and exterior studying alternatives and expertise throughout programme areas to broaden information and abilities. 

We embrace our interns in all our actions together with strategic and work planning and workers occasions, and endeavour to make sure that everybody feels nurtured and valued. 

Who is the Commonwealth Foundation are searching for 

The Foundation strives to be a welcoming and inclusive place to work. We intention to make sure that the Graduate Internship programme is as accessible as attainable to individuals from a spread of socio-economic backgrounds.   

You can have glorious analysis and administrative abilities and ideally have a great information of, or curiosity in, no less than one space of our work: freedom of expression, local weather justice or well being justice.  Experience utilizing know-how is vital, and information of Microsoft Office and on-line platforms is required. 

We are searching for people who find themselves curious and keen to study and who will actively promote the values and rules of the Commonwealth and the Foundation. 

You should possess and declare on the time of application the proper to work within the UK for the total length of the internship. The Foundation can not help in altering the visa standing of any applicant. 

What Commonwealth Foundation supply 

We supply interns a wage of £2,100 per 30 days (equal to £25,200 each year) for a six-month mounted time period internship contract.  Annual depart is calculated at 30 days per 12 months (pro-rata) inclusive of public holidays and the Foundation’s personal designated depart days. 

We are presently working a versatile working coverage which requires all workers together with interns to work from our central London workplace no less than 5 days per fortnight together with each Wednesday. Applicants should be capable of affirm their capability and willingness to work inside our coverage. 

There isn’t any expectation of a job with the Foundation on the finish of the internship, though interns are welcome to apply for any roles marketed externally. 

Commonwealth Foundation dedication 

The Commonwealth Foundation is devoted to making sure that the various voices of the Commonwealth are absolutely represented in our workforce, driving innovation, creativity, and significant impression in all that we do. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to hitch us in our mission to create a extra equitable and inclusive world. 

If you want us to make any particular lodging within the recruitment and choice course of due to a protected attribute, please tell us. 

The course of 

Applications must be submitted on-line through the hyperlink under. Please additionally obtain and consult with the function description accessible on the hyperlink under.

The application additionally requires you to supply proof of your present proper to work within the UK.

Closing date: 

The deadline for purposes is Monday, 14 April 2025, 1pm BST. However, we are going to monitor the variety of purposes obtained and reserve the best to shut the application window early or prolong the deadline as essential. We suggest submitting purposes as early as attainable. 

Interviews: 

In Person at Marlborough House, London 12 – 14 May 2025.

Start date: 

Monday 30 June 2025  

Role-description-Intern-2025.pdf

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS 

Monday 14 April 2025, 1.00pm BST 

(We could cease accepting purposes shut previous to this date, relying on numbers obtained).