Opportunities for Young Women

Wanting to develop your leadership skills, or needing some financial help with your professional development? We’ve compiled a list of available opportunities for young women! 

  • We are recruiting for our Young Women’s Council! If you are a young woman or gender diverse person aged 18-30 and want to be a part of shaping the future where young women, women, and gender diverse people feel safe, secure, and empowered in their homes and communities, this is the opportunity for you. Find out more.
  • The Australian Progress Fellowship is looking for their Spring 2023 cohort with scholarships available for First Nations people, people with disability, people of colour, people with lived experience seeking asylum and unwaged changemakers facing financial barriers. The program covers a deep dive into best practice advocacy from a wide-ranging suite of skills. Apply now.
  • Harmony Alliance has developed a free online course on ‘Financial Literacy for Women‘ available in English, Arabic, Dari, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Nepalese, Punjabi, Hazaragi, Thai, Karen, and Korean.
  • Are you a school student with a bold idea to tackle a Sustainable Development Goal? Westpac’s Youth Impact Challenge aims to help students solve problems and is open to students in years 1 to 12.
  • The Australian Human Rights Commission welcomes applications from students to its internship program for July to December 2023. The intent of the Commission’s internship program is to provide a practical understanding of human rights promotion and protection through the statutory functions of the Commission and create a broad appreciation of the scope of work the Commission undertakes as a National Human Rights Institution. Find out more.
  • The Humanitarian Advisory Group have opened applications for internships to help you navigate where your passion lies in humanitarian response and mapping out how to get there. Their internship program provides opportunities for students engaged in advanced university study to develop their skills in research, training and technical support.  The interns work on research assistance, write blogs, support HAG and sector events and learn valuable research skills. Learn more about the opportunity here.
  • The Ann Moyal Non-fiction Fellowship encourages excellence in non-fiction writing. The Fellowship aims to support writers with an Australian focus who are developing an original work drawn from the broad fields of the humanities and social sciences. There are three Fellowships available. Find out more here.