Every year we help over a million people in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe rebuild their lives and livelihoods after war.
Where We Work
Middle East
- Iraq
- Lebanon
Africa
- Nigeria
- Angola
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Burkina Faso
- Sierra Leone
- Mali
- Chad
- Guinea
- Mauritania
- Niger
- Zimbabwe
- Democratic Republic of Congo
Asia
- Cambodia
- Vietnam
- Laos
- Sri Lanka
- Myanmar
Europe
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
South America
- Peru
How to Help
Whether you want to run a marathon, host a cake sale or get your community group involved, you can make a difference to the lives of people affected by conflict.
Volunteer with MAG
We're changing the world and you can be part of it. At MAG, we’re proud to work with a community of amazing volunteers – and we’d love you to join us.
From helping out in our annual Thankathon to cheering on our marathon runners, we have a whole host of opportunities available for you. You'll meet like-minded people, develop new skills and gain valuable experience.
Whatever you decide to do, you’ll be joining a movement committed to saving lives and building safer futures.
We do not send volunteers from the UK to any of our overseas programmes. This is because MAG trains and employs staff from the countries in which we work, developing skills and capacity locally and providing opportunities to the communities who need our support.
Working at HQ
Our headquarters is in Manchester, UK. Here we support all of our global operations, with finance, human resources, procurement, fundraising, communications, IT and the programmes teams working together with staff in-country to ensure efficient operations on a day-to-day basis.
With a global workforce made up of more than 50 different nationalities, you’ll see that we value diversity with all our staff working closely together for a fantastic cause.
Our style is open, dynamic and relaxed. Our people are at the heart of our organisation and we know they’re our most important asset.
Working in a Programme
We currently have around 175 international staff working for MAG across programmes in Europe, Africa, South America, the Middle East and South East Asia.
Many of our international staff have worked for us for some time or have returned to us on several occasions. Our international staff enjoy the “feel good factor” of working and genuinely making a difference to people’s lives on a daily basis.
For our staff, there is no greater reward than being able to release land to a community to use for farming or for a school.
The majority of our international staff are appointed on open-ended contracts, offering you job security and the chance to develop with us. For example:
• 72 per cent of our senior managers based overseas have been promoted from within MAG.
• Over 50 per cent of our staff have worked for MAG for more than two years.
Our People Overseas
We recruit a range of staff, both technical and support staff, to deliver our life-saving work. Our technical staff have the expertise to oversee the safe clearance of landmines and unexploded ordnance.
Our support staff have the skills to ensure that operations run effectively and efficiently including Finance Mangers, Country Directors, HR Managers and Logistics Managers. Usually our technical staff have military backgrounds and our support staff will have experience in the humanitarian aid sector which creates a dynamic mix of skills.
The Types of People MAG Needs
For many of our international roles we demand a high level of skills and experience in order to train our national staff in a number of locations. We seek staff who are:
• Committed to our humanitarian mandate
• Able to live and work as a team; the hours may be long and living conditions may be basic
• Experienced enough to work in developing countries
• Committed to our capacity-building mandate
• Able to be flexible and adaptable in response to changing needs and environments
• Able to speak a second language (desirable)
