Thank you for your interest to be a part of the Act for Displaced family. We are a knowledge-driven nonprofit community of an international group of humanitarian practitioners, academicians, researchers, students, and individuals interested in advocating for the rights of displaced individuals around the world. We are dedicated to the issues relating to displacement, refugees, forced migration, and human rights.
We are constantly looking for highly driven individuals to contribute to the cause and join our community. Check below to find out on what capacity you can become a part of our family.
Note: We are a non-profit organization and working mode of all the positions are virtual and voluntary.
Associate Editor
- Expertise and experience in the specialist field related to displacement, human rights, protection, refugee & forced migration
- Publication record of a number of articles and /or books
- Excellent communication skills in English
- Critical thinking ability
- Ability to write with clarity
- A keen eye for details
- Proficient in using technology
- Review the relevant and publishable submissions received from all across the world
- Attract new and established authors and article submissions
- Write a minimum of two articles in a month
- Attend monthly team meetings
- Create new ideas and strategies for the development of the platform
- Opportunity to interact with humanitarian practitioners, academicians, researchers, and students and growing your network
- Writing and publishing own articles for a huge community
- Developing excellent writing skills
- Learning through reading articles from across the world
- Recommendations whenever needed (after working for at least 6 months)
To apply, send the following at tafhimur@actfordisplaced.org
- Your updated resume
- A cover letter stating your motivation to apply
- An original and unpublished essay on ‘How can we ensure a world with zero refugees and forcibly displaced?’ (400 – 1000 words)
Contract duration: 1 year
Application Deadline: Ongoing
Humanitarian Researcher & Writer
- Must have content writing experience
- Must have ideas about displacement, refugees, and human rights
- Excellent communication skills in English
- Ability to write with clarity
- A keen eye for details
- You will need to submit 2 articles per month that include selecting research topics and writing on humanitarian related issues ranging from 600-3000 words (each)
- Writings must be plagiarism free (up to 10% allowed case by case basis)
- Maintain regular communication with the Team Lead and submit your work within deadline
- You will comply with the policies, rules, and regulations of the Act for Displaced’s business practices and procedures
- Opportunity to publish and showcase your work to a global audience
- Opportunity to review your articles by scholars and experts at Act for Displaced
- Opportunity to showcase your published work on your CV/Resume
- Opportunity to network with humanitarian practitioners and scholars from around the world
- Opportunity to gain extensive knowledge on the humanitarian issues happening across the world
- Receive ‘Experience Certificate’ after the successful completion of the work period
- Receive reference or recommendations letter if needed after 6 months of working period
To apply, send the following at hello@actfordisplaced.org
- A writing sample of 500-1000 words
- Your updated CV/Resume
- A cover letter stating your motivation to apply
Contract Duration: 6 months
Application Deadline: Ongoing
Research Intern
- Must be a student of humanitarian studies, Law, International Relations, or a relevant discipline
- Excellent communication skills in English
- Previous writing and research experience preferred
- Enthusiastic mind with an interest to learn more about the humanitarian sector
- You will need to submit 2 articles per month that include selecting research topics and writing contemporary humanitarian related research and news articles ranging from 500-1500 words (each)
- Writings must be plagiarism free (up to 10% allowed case by case basis)
- Maintain deadlines to submit your work
- You will comply with the policies, rules, and regulations of the Act for Displaced’s business practices and procedures
- Opportunity to publish and showcase your work to a global audience
- Opportunity to review your articles by scholars and experts at Act for Displaced
- Opportunity to showcase your published work on your CV/Resume
- Opportunity to network with humanitarian practitioners and scholars from around the world
- Opportunity to gain extensive knowledge on the humanitarian issues happening across the world
- Receive ‘Internship Certificate’ after the successful completion of the work period
- Receive reference or recommendations letter if needed after 4 months of working period
To apply, send the following at hello@actfordisplaced.org
- Your updated CV/Resume
- A cover letter stating your motivation to apply
Contract duration: 4 months (can be extended to 6 months upon satisfactory performance)
Application Deadline: Ongoing
Visual Designer/Video Editors
- 1-2 years of experience in video editing/designing
- Proficient in Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro or Photoshop/Illustrator
- Strong communication, conceptual and creative thinking
- Excellent communication skills in English
- Enthusiastic mind with an interest to improve skills and capacity
- Collaborate with the team to ensure consistency in video formats across various media outlets
- Plan and edit compelling videos by extracting clips and information through surfing online
- Stay updated about current industry and technology standards, social media, competitive landscape, and market trends
- Opportunity to be guided by experts and sharpen your skills
- Opportunity to reach a global audience with your work
- Opportunity to showcase your published work on your Portfolio
- Opportunity to network with creative minds from diverse backgrounds
- Opportunity to gain extensive knowledge on the humanitarian issues happening across the world
- Receive ‘Experience Certificate’ after the successful completion of the work period
- Receive reference or recommendations letter if needed after 6 months of working period
To apply, send the following at hello@actfordisplaced.org
- Your updated CV/Resume
- A cover letter stating your motivation to apply
Contract duration: 4 months (can be extended to 6 months upon satisfactory performance)
Application Deadline: Ongoing
Call for Article Submissions
- We appreciate your interest in making the world a better place for everyone. To ensure that, the world needs your voice. Your article must be related to any aspect of contemporary displacement, migration, refugees, and human rights. There is no deadline for submitting articles as we receive throughout the year.
- Legal rights of refugee
- Climate change and displacement
- Asylum Law and procedure
- Sex and Gender-based Violence (SGBV)
- Challenges of migration and internally displaced people
- How to help internally displaced people
- Rules for asylum seekers
- Asylum seeker detention
- Offshore detention of asylum seekers
- Global forced displacement
- UNHCR functioning and work
- Migration relocation obligation
- Border movement restrictions for displaced people around the world
- Condition of Refugee camps around the world
- Employment opportunities for Refugees
- 1951 Refugee Convention
- Freedom of movement of Refugees
- Health, mental health, trauma-related to displaced people and refugees
- Housing Issues
- Economic crisis faced by a Displaced person
- Relocation of refugees
- Settlement Program
- Government assistance and remedies for Refugees
- Education policy for refugees
- Stories of migrants and refugees
- Insights on any of our concerned issues
- Legal analysis on any of our concerned issues
- Debates and arguments on any of our concerned issues
This list is prepared just to help you have an idea about the articles we publish. Your article doesn’t need to be on the exact above mentioned topics. You’re free to come up with your argument, analysis, and insights beyond these topics as long as it is related to our concerned issues.
- We publish only original and unpublished articles.
- Our blog is visited by readers from 70+ countries every month. Hence, the article must be interesting and useful to a global readership.
- It is not an academic journal and our readers come from different backgrounds, and might not come from a native English background. Therefore, articles must be of simple understandable language and all the features of academic articles are not required.
- Minimum words for an article is 500, while the maximum is 3000.
- Anything beyond the word limit must be accompanied by proper reasons on the email.
- There cannot be more than 20 endnotes/references (if any).
- Texts must not contain hyperlinks of any sort.
- It must be submitted in a Word document, in Calibri or Times New Roman with font size 12, single line spacing, and left-aligned.
Please note that, we neither receive or pay for publishing any article.
- Once its ready, send your submission along with a short bio in 2-3 lines with the social media handles (if possible), and a profile picture to submissions@actfordisplaced.org
We look forward to receiving your articles.