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Are you hoping to undertake a sandwich placement for the 22/23 academic year? Apply for one of the 13 roles offered by The Carbon Literacy Project - a Manchester-based, climate change education and action charity.

What is The Carbon Literacy Project?

The Carbon Literacy Project is a multi-award-winning and globally unique climate change learning-and-doing project. They offer everyone who lives, works or studies a day’s worth of Carbon Literacy training - covering climate change, carbon footprints, how you can do your bit, and why it’s relevant to you.

Founded in Manchester in 2012, Carbon Literacy went on to be recognised by the United Nations at COP21 in Paris, in 2015, as a TAP100; one of 100 ‘Transformative Actions Programs’ worldwide that could materially change the way we deal with climate change.

Since then, The Carbon Literacy Project and it’s Carbon Literacy Community has been growing at an ever-increasing pace - currently certifying around 500 individuals as Carbon Literate per week! This has been aided by, and has, in turn, enabled the steady growth of a small but dedicated team of staff, volunteers, and volunteers-turned-staff. In recent years, this has included placement students like Nicole who has spoken highly of this “invaluable” experience.

Upcoming Placement Opportunities

For the upcoming 22/23 academic year, The Carbon Literacy Project is offering a whopping 13 placement roles, spanning their Operations, Communications, Finance and Sector Toolkit Teams.

These placements present opportunities for students across a wide range of disciplines to gain valuable experience in the rapidly expanding environmental sector. Students will gain relevant knowledge and skills, towards a desired career path, all while becoming an asset to a young, exciting and impactful organisation.

It's worth noting that The Carbon Literacy Project is a small charity with no core funding. This means that their placement opportunities are currently unable to be formally paid.

That being said, there are a number of ways these placements have been made as accessible as possible. The option to work from the Manchester office, in a hybrid capacity, or fully remotely, enables individuals to not need to travel regularly, or find accommodation and move in a new city. When travelling into the Manchester office reasonable public transport (including bike mileage) travel expenses, and a receiptless lunch allowance is provided.

The Carbon Literacy Project is also actively seeking funding to introduce a grant scheme for their Placement Interns, and have so far secured funding to support one of these roles. They continue to work to secure further grant funding for these roles, so if you know of any avenues which might help The Carbon Literacy Project to advance this work, please get in touch with them at info@carbonliteracy.com.

Explore the 13 different placement roles on offer via the ‘Volunteer With Us’ page of The Carbon Literacy Project website. Applications are due to close on 2nd June, and they look forward to receiving yours!