Merlin
- Introduction to Relief and Emergencies, a three day introductory non-residential course, gives a comprehensive overview of the humanitarian sector. This includes how emergency responses are planned and carried out and what it‚Äôs actually like to live and work in the field. The course also helps participants to identify how their skills and experience could contribute to the sector. Costing £300, it is aimed at those wishing to enter the humanitarian sector or those fairly new to it.
- Public Health in Crises and Transitional Contexts, is a seven day non-residential course aimed at health professionals or support staff such as project managers and logisticians who work, or want to work, in the delivery of health programmes in emergency situations; it costs £600.
- The Merlin Internship Programme: Merlin has developed an internship in order to build a pathway into the humanitarian sector for people who are missing something from their work profile and are therefore finding it difficult to enter employment in the sector. So far 60 per cent of graduates from the Internship Programme have been offered posts with Merlin either at head office or in the Field. Internships are typically available in: Programmes, Logistics, Marketing, Communications and Finance.
The programme consists of six months working in the Head Office for a maximum of three days a week then, depending on performance and placement availability, this may be followed by four/six months undergoing a field placement in one of the international Country Programmes. Whilst London-based, interns can claim expenses; during the field placement a living allowance is offered.
Applications for the March 2010 intake have closed; however, information about the second intake in 2010 will be on Merlin’s website from June onwards.
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