About Movement in Refuge (MiR)
MiR is an international organisation promoting physical and mental health through sport and movement training to create safe, structured opportunities for conflict-affected communities. We started in the Rohingya refugee camps along the Bangladesh Myanmar border, home to one of the world’s largest refugee settlements, since 2024.
Our work is grounded in the conviction that sports and movement are beneficial to everyone and that people who have suffered enormous trauma and upheaval would greatly benefit from healthy movement, play and sport.
Together with our Bangladeshi partner NGO Sports for Hope and Independence (SHI), we deliver safe, dynamic and consistent coaching for women and girls, separately, for men and boys. Our trainers come from Bangladeshi Universities with degrees in physical education and sports science. They train refugees we refer to as community-based coaches who are from and live in the refugee camps. Our planned academic partnerships with the University of Edinburgh, Leeds Beckett University, i-coach kids, will anchor our practice in research, and our growing connections across the UN system mean our work is scaling. We are at a pivotal moment and need your support to achieve our potential.
The Role
As People and Culture Intern, you will help build the people-operations backbone of a fast-growing international NGO. MiR’s team of interns, community-based coaches and staff is expanding quickly, and this role supports the recruitment, onboarding and organisational systems needed to manage that growth responsibly. This is a foundational role: much of what you help put in place will shape how MiR runs its people operations going forward.
You will work closely with MiR leadership across all of MiR’s internship tracks and field-based roles, gaining a genuine, hands-on view of how a small international organisation builds its team while upholding safeguarding standards appropriate to work with vulnerable communities.
Key Responsibilities
- Support recruitment: drafting and posting position descriptions (including on platforms such as ReliefWeb), screening applications, and coordinating interviews across MiR’s internship and staff positions.
- Coordinate onboarding for new interns, community-based coaches and staff, including induction scheduling and documentation.
- Help maintain personnel records and HR trackers, contact details, start/end dates, supervisors, and reference letters issued.
- Support the development and maintenance of HR policies and procedures appropriate for a small, fast-growing international organisation, such as volunteer/intern agreements and codes of conduct.
- Support safe recruitment practices, including reference checks, for roles involving contact with vulnerable communities, in line with MiR’s safeguarding framework.
- Help coordinate regular check-ins and feedback processes between interns/staff and their supervisors.
- Contribute to team culture and wellbeing initiatives across a fully remote, globally distributed team.
- Support administration of Community-Based Coaches’ engagements in coordination with the Area Coordinator and field team in Bangladesh.
- Keep MiR leadership regularly updated on recruitment pipeline status, onboarding progress and HR priorities.
Time Commitment
5–20 hours per week, over a minimum of 4 months. This is a remote, unpaid internship. Hours are flexible and can be arranged around your academic or professional commitments, with scope to increase your contribution during holidays or free periods if that suits you.
What You Will Gain
Being part of the MiR internship programme means joining a lean, fast-moving international development organisation at a pivotal moment in its growth. You will gain:
- Hands-on experience in recruitment, onboarding and people operations within an international NGO context.
- Direct exposure to safeguarding-aligned hiring practices and organisational design in a fast-growing organisation.
- Real responsibility over systems and processes that MiR will continue to rely on as it scales.
- A formal reference letter from MiR leadership on successful completion.
- Access to MiR’s growing network of academic, UN, and civil society partners.
- Mentorship from practitioners with decades of field experience across the UN system and international NGOs.
How You Will Be Supported
MiR is small but structured. Every intern is assigned a direct point of contact within our team who will oversee your work and provide regular feedback. You will receive a structured induction covering MiR’s mission, values, safeguarding framework, and current priorities. We hold regular team check-ins and will not leave you to figure things out alone.
We take your development seriously. We want you to leave with more skills, more confidence, and a clearer understanding of how impactful organisations communicate in complex environments, and how humanitarian organisations respond to large scale disasters and migration crises.
Eligibility
If you are a student or early-career professional with a genuine interest in MiR’s mission and in HR, people operations, or organisational development. A background in HR, business administration, psychology, or international development is an advantage, but what matters most is discretion, organisation, and genuine care for the people who make up MiR’s team.
How to apply
Fill out the form on the link to apply:Â https://forms.gle/uF8iEkHTzRLftELB8