23 Jobs, Internships and Volunteering Opportunities Closing in January, 2026 – December 3, 2025

As we approach the start of a new year, exciting opportunities are emerging for young changemakers, aspiring professionals, and passionate volunteers. From internships and fellowships to full-time roles across diverse sectors, January 2026 is set to bring openings that can kickstart careers, build skills, and expand networks. To help you stay ahead, we have curated 23 jobs, internships, and volunteering opportunities closing in January 2026, each offering a unique chance to grow, learn, and make an impact.

1. Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health Technical Specialist Kenya
The Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (MNCAH) Technical Specialist is responsible for ensuring technical excellence in Save the Children’s health systems strengthening initiatives. This role provides strategic leadership and guidance to enhance health systems and improve outcomes for maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health. The Specialist ensures that evidence-based interventions are integrated into programs and policies, supports capacity building, and promotes quality of care across all levels of service delivery.
Click here to apply | Deadline : Dec. 10 

2. Director Girls First Fund
The Girls First Fund (GFF) was created in 2018 by a group of philanthropic partners who believed that community-based organizations are the key drivers of change to end child, early, and forced marriage or unions. As a global collaborative fund, GFF channels flexible, multi-year funding and tailored support to mainly girl- and women-led organizations advancing locally rooted, gender-transformative solutions.
Click here to apply | Deadline : Dec. 10 

3. National Programmes and Advocacy Officer
Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) The National Programmes and Advocacy Officer (NPAO) will lead the coordination and implementation of WGNRR’s Kaleidoscope programme in Benin. This includes managing day-to-day operations, strengthening partnerships, overseeing research and advocacy strategies for advancing abortion rights, supporting health system strengthening initiatives, and leading capacity-building efforts for national partners and stakeholders. The NPAO will collaborate closely with regional and global teams, manage relationships with CSOs, government bodies, medical practitioners, journalists, and allied networks, and ensure effective programmatic and financial management aligned with WGNRR’s strategic vision.
Click here to apply | Deadline : Dec. 10 

4. National Programmes and Advocacy Officer
Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) The National Programmes and Advocacy Officer (NPAO) will lead the coordination and implementation of WGNRR’s Kaleidoscope programme in Benin. This includes managing day-to-day operations, strengthening partnerships, overseeing research and advocacy strategies for advancing abortion rights, supporting health system strengthening initiatives, and leading capacity-building efforts for national partners and stakeholders. The NPAO will collaborate closely with regional and global teams, manage relationships with CSOs, government bodies, medical practitioners, journalists, and allied networks, and ensure effective programmatic and financial management aligned with WGNRR’s strategic vision.
Click here to apply | Deadline : Dec. 6

5. Immigration Lawyer Kalayaan
The Immigration Lawyer is a critical role in a small legal team providing expert advice and casework support to exploited migrant domestic workers. Working as part of a dedicated team with high levels of autonomy, the Immigration Lawyer’s advice has a direct impact on the safety and dignity of vulnerable clients, giving them access to justice. The role also contributes to strategic litigation while supporting policy advocacy.
Click here to apply | Deadline : Dec. 28

6. Equity, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (EEDI) and Culture Manager Green Party
The EEDI and Culture Manager plays a pivotal role in embedding equity, equality, diversity and inclusion across the organisation, ensuring all employees feel supported to thrive. The postholder will help embed an inclusive and equitable culture that reflects the Party’s values, ensuring that our EEDI work grows organically from our people and practices, rather than being tokenistic or compliance driven. They will also lead on developing and delivering an engaging learning and development offer aligned to Party values and strategic priorities. 
Click here to apply | Deadline : Dec. 12

7. Evaluation of the Fund to Support Feminist Organizations (FSOF)Agence Française de Développement Group (AFD Group)
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is the French Development Agency, a public financial institution that funds and supports development projects in France’s overseas territories and in many other countries. Its mission is to improve living conditions, promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth, and protect the planet, contributing to France’s development and international partnership policy.
Click here to apply | Deadline : Dec. 12

8. Global Supply Chain Compliance & Controls Specialist
You will be responsible for executing day-to-day compliance activities, including routine checks, data validation, and monitoring system adherence. Supports the adoption of policies and KPIs by maintaining trackers, preparing documentation, and reporting gaps.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Jan. 31

9. Grants Compliance Officer (Fixed-Term)
Seeking an exception and detail-oriented compliance professional with 2+ years of experience to ensure the efficiency and efficacy of our work in serving farmers and maximizing grant impact.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Jan. 29

10. Tanzania Government Relations Intern
Seeking proactive entry-level professionals to support government relations, stakeholder engagement, and administrative coordination in Iringa and Njombe, the work that enables One Acre Fund’s impact for smallholder farmers.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Jan. 25

11. Nigeria Expansion Senior Specialist

Seeking an experienced professional with 5+ years of experience to lead expansion into new regions and products for One Acre Fund Nigeria: designing, testing, and implementing models that deepen farmer impact and advance our 2030 goals.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Jan. 25

12. Consultant – Tropical Potato Seed Production
To provide world-class technical expertise and strategic guidance in certified potato seed production, with a focus on maximizing productivity, ensuring the highest quality standards, building sustainable team capacity, and embedding cost-efficient production systems. The consultant will directly support the department’s scale-up ambitions, enabling rapid adoption of global best practices adapted to tropical and sub-tropical environments, and ensuring resilience to climatic and disease-related challenges.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Dec.15 

13. Tupande Strategy and Operations Associate
We are seeking exceptional candidates with 3-5 years work experience. The ideal candidate will have a background in managing complex projects and coordinating across multiple teams in a fast-growing organization, and a propensity for innovation.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Jan.25

14. Tanzania Agriculture Technical Intern
Seeking a motivated Agricultural Technical Intern to join our team. Accelerate the scaling of our Lead Farmer model by driving GAPs adoption. Your work will increase yield, income, and food security for smallholder families.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Jan.25

15. Tupande Audit Lead

We are seeking an experienced Senior Internal Auditor to lead our internal audit activities in Kenya.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Jan.15

16. Global Internal Channels Management Lead (Fixed-Term)
Seeking a professional with 5+ years experience to implement the strategy, roll-out, and daily management of One Acre Fund’s intranet and engagement channels, driving content, design, training, and collaboration to improve comms and knowledge sharing.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Dec.15

17. Tanzania Data and Execution Specialist (Fixed-Term)
Seeking a Trees Data and Execution Specialist to lead data collection, analysis, and field coordination to support agroforestry impact. Help drive seedling quality, logistics, and decision-making through rigorous data and team collaboration.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Dec.04

18. Deputy Team Leader, GEDSI and Safeguarding Lead – RIVA programme in Nepal
The programme is implemented in partnership with Plan International UK (operating through Plan International Nepal who are responsible for the delivery of a Catalytic Grant Facility and Monitoring Evaluation Research and Learning, MERL). RIVA is a 3.5-year programme that will empower women, girls, and excluded groups in Nepal to understand and claim their Rights individually and collectively, participate in Inclusive policymaking and implementation, and have a stronger Voice and Agency at both national and local levels to advance Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI).
Click here to apply | Deadline: Dec. 7

19. Advocacy Intern International Planned Parenthood Federation Europe & Central Asia (IPPF Europe & Central Asia)
To provide support to the effective implementation of the overall IPPF EN advocacy engagement with the European Union (EU) aimed at ensuring a strong focus on gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), in its policies and funding, both for within the EU and in its international cooperation and external action.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Dec. 7

20. Specialist Family Violence Practitioners x2 – The Orange Door
The Orange Door (TOD) practitioners work collaboratively as part of an integrated team to deliver effective responses to victim survivors of family violence (including children and young people), as well as to adults who use family violence. The Specialist Family Violence Practitioner conducts risk, wellbeing and needs assessments and requires a high level of professional judgement.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Dec. 4

21. Project officer: Gender Partnership Programme
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is the global organization of national parliaments with a membership of 181 Member Parliaments and 15 Associate Members. The IPU works to promote democratic governance, institutions and values, working with parliaments and parliamentarians to articulate and respond to the needs and aspirations of the people. It works for peace, democracy, human rights, gender equality, youth empowerment, climate action and sustainable development through political dialogue, cooperation and parliamentary action.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Dec. 14

22. Adviser on Gender Equality at ODI – Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is the principal institution of the OSCE responsible for the human dimension. ODIHR is active throughout the OSCE area in the fields of election observation, democratic development, human rights, tolerance and non-discrimination, and the rule of law. ODIHR’s assistance projects and other activities are implemented in participating States in accordance with ODIHR’s mandate.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Dec. 12

23. Gender Specialist, Coral Triangle Women Project
As part of the regional priority on rights-based and people-centered conservation to achieve equitable conservation outcomes TNC Asia Pacific region is anticipating the launch of a project aimed at empowering women to lead improved NRM and build resilience to the impacts of climate change in the Coral Triangle (Ultimate Outcome). Of the six CT countries, project activities will be implemented on-the-ground in four countries (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea – PNG, Solomon Islands, and the Philippines) with training and participation in learning exchanges in all six CT countries including Malaysia and Timor Leste.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Dec. 12

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