Someone passionate about community building and fostering engagement within an organisation. This role involves strengthening connections among members, supporting internal initiatives and events, and creating a welcoming environment for volunteers and participants. Responsibilities include facilitating discussions, organising internal activities, and enhancing engagement through effective communication and collaboration.
Join our Team
Are you passionate about youth engagement?
Do you connect with the GiLE Foundation’s mission and activities?
And do you want to tap into your sense of purpose by giving back?
If yes, then look no further!
The GiLE Foundation offers several opportunities where you can contribute your time and skills, in exchange for meaningful benefits.
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The Benefits of Volunteering With Us?
Get a sense of purpose
Be part of an international
community
Expand your network
Develop new skills
Build your CV with volunteer experience
Receive a Certificate of Participation
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Available Roles
Administrative Assistant
Someone with strong organisational and coordination skills to support administrative tasks, invoicing, project coordination, and fundraising efforts. This role includes liaising with our accountant, managing documentation, tracking project deliverables, and assisting with grant-related administrative work to help ensure the smooth operation of our activities.
Note: An understanding of the Hungarian language is required, both written and spoken.
Community Building Assistant
Content Creator (Text + Graphics)
Someone with a talent for crafting engaging written content and designing visually appealing graphics to effectively promote our projects and events. This role involves writing social media captions and newsletters while using tools like Canva or Adobe Creative Suite to create on-brand visuals that align with our communication goals and engage our audience.
Content Creator (Video)
Someone with a passion for creating engaging video content to promote our projects and events, with a focus on short-form storytelling for platforms like TikTok and Instagram Reels. This role involves mobile recording, editing, and producing dynamic video content, repurposing event footage, and crafting visually compelling stories that resonate with our audience while aligning with our brand voice.
Grant Writer
Someone with experience in grant writing to support our efforts in securing funding for our youth forums, mentorship programmes, ideathons, and other youth-focused initiatives (Erasmus+, Solidarity Corps, Bethlen Gábor, international foundations, etc.). Financial incentives are available for successful grant applications.
Photographer & Videographer
Someone with a passion for photography and videography, who has their own equipment and wants to capture impactful moments from our events and programmes while developing their own portfolio. This role involves shooting and editing high-quality photos and videos, creating engaging visual content for our platforms, and helping to tell the story of our initiatives through compelling imagery.
Web Specialist & Programmer
Someone with WordPress, CSS, and programming knowledge to develop and maintain user-friendly, high-performing websites while integrating the latest digital tools to support our projects. This role involves optimising website functionality, troubleshooting technical issues, improving user experience, and implementing custom coding solutions where needed. Experience with open-source platforms, automation tools, or database management is a plus.
Social Media Coordinator
Someone who is passionate about social media to assist us with coordinating social media posts, tracking analytics, and boosting engagement.
Event Organiser & Community Support
Someone to provide internal assistance for team members, help with planning and organising events, and support our youth engagement efforts in general.
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Volunteer & Internship Application:
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Frequently Asked Questions:
We are looking for people who are dependable and who are able to consistently offer a regular, weekly commitment for at least six months. In the case of an official university internship, this period may be 3 months. We have a diverse and international community, so it’s also important that you are open-minded and that you can communicate well in English.
No, the default situation is that all of our Contributors don’t get paid. However, there are several benefits you can receive in exchange for your voluntary contributions for the GiLE Foundation. These include having a sense of purpose, developing new skills, building up your CV, being part of an international community, having public speaking opportunities, expanding your network, a certificate of appreciation and, if appropriate, a letter of recommendation.
Not necessarily. We are open to collaborating with volunteers across the globe, as some of our tasks can be performed remotely.
Those volunteers who are living in Budapest are generally required to meet in-person at least once per month. However, depending on the nature of the project or volunteering activity that you are involved with, you may need to meet and engage with your project team more frequently.
It’s difficult to say because it depends on your specific role. For example, content creators may be required to produce content at least once or twice per month, whereas the contributions from event organising are dependent on the number of GiLE events, for example.
Put differently, your regular contributions are more task-specific rather than time orientated. However, we do require Contributors to be able to set aside a minimum of 4-hours per week regarding their time commitment. For official university internships, this period is 20 hours a week.
If your application is successful, then you will be required to sign a legal agreement with the GiLE Foundation in order to comply with the national regulations.
We try our best to make everyone’s volunteering experience enjoyable and rewarding. The agreement describes what you can expect from us and it also highlights the minimum standards of professional conduct that we expect from you.
Please note that the provisions of the Hungarian Public Interest Volunteer Act (Act LXXXVIII. of 2005) is not applicable in respect of your contributions and collaboration with our foundation.
It is possible to receive a small scholarship from your university for your community-related activities with the the GiLE Foundation. However, it depends on the regulations of your particular university.
Sometimes the university covers this scholarship directly, and sometimes it’s covered by the HÖK Student Union at your university.
**Please note that the management of the GiLE Foundation will only support those Contributors who provide meaningful support to the activities of our foundation on a consistent basis.
