RWC recruits 01 Stocks & Procurement Volunteering – RWC
About the Refugee Women’s Centre
The Refugee Women’s Centre (RWC) is a feminist and all-female organisation working to provide close support to displaced women and family units in northern France. The organisation welcomes all female or non-binary people over the age of 21 to apply to join our team. We are a team of 10-14 long-term volunteers and two full-time employees: Calais Coordinator, and Grande-Synthe Coordinator.
Job description
Stocks and Procurement Volunteering mission, your role will focus on ensuring the effective running of our warehouses, maintaining stock level, keeping our space organised and strengthening partnerships with forecasts, deliveries, orders, and other distribution organisations. Throughout this work, you will continue to do the main daily tasks required by everyone on the team – warehouse sorting, distributions, activities with women – but with a specific focus on the management of RWC’s warehouse space and stock.
Key Responsibilities
On the ground, with the women we support (2 days / week)
- Take an active role in daily ground activities including distributions and maraudes, along with other team members. This can include work such as late evenings bringing tents to families, preparing distribution items, sorting in the warehouse, and driving people to appointments.
- Build supportive and professional relationships with the women we support and be able to monitor and identify their needs and vulnerabilities which you will raise to the social worker.
- Take a leading role in ensuring our material support and distribution on the ground is meeting women’s needs, well coordinated and communicated with both the women and with the team members
Organisational and administrative tasks (3 days / week)
- Managing the effective running of our warehouses. This includes managing the space and team sorting, defining and delegating tasks to all team members including cleaning and organising storage areas.
- Monitoring stock levels and inventory, identifying needs, and ensuring the purchase of necessary stock in coordination with the off ground stocks volunteer.
- Sourcing and purchasing specific items for distribution in Calais/Dunkirk (eg. items that are readily available in supermarkets like wet wipes and blankets)
- Helping to develop distribution protocols with the ground coordinators.
- Strengthening and maintaining partnerships with organisations in Calais and Dunkirk. Includes seeking out new stock relationships in both areas and combining purchases where possible.
- Attending warehouse meetings (with L’Auberge des Migrants) and stock meetings, and keeping the team informed of outcomes.
- Support RWC’s social media presence by contributing to posts when needed (e.g. donation needs, thank you to donors, other team projects)
- Coordinate the reception of big donations, be present to meet the partners.
- Ensuring that photos are taken on receipt of larger donations organised by specific organisations.
Required skills
- Be at least 21 years old.
- Working knowledge of English and/or French.
- High levels of organisation.
- Confident in entering and organising data into Excel.
- Confident in forming partnerships with other support groups where possible.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt projects quickly.
- Ability to mentally and physically sustain yourself in an intense setting with long days.
- Be good at problem solving and finding solutions on the spot.
- Being able to work in a team with care and motivation.
- Have an interest in and awareness of issues facing refugees and migrants in Europe and an awareness of European asylum procedures.
Preferred:
- Experience in logistics.
- Valid driving licence and driving experience.
- Experience in working sustainably with vulnerable people, including vulnerability/safeguarding identification and building empathetic and professional relationships.
Conditions
Start date: May 2026 Duration: 6 months
Status: Volunteering Income: none
- This is a full time and immersive role, as you will be working in a team of 10-15 people, with whom you will be sharing a living space as well. Our working languages are English and French.
- Free accommodation provided by the organisation for volunteers and interns/civic service. You will be sharing a bedroom with another team member.
- You will be working under the supervision of the salaried Ground Coordinators and Legal and Social Support Coordinator, who will be supporting you during the placement. You will be collaborating with our remote Donations and Procurement Officer as well as the team members on the ground. Team coordination and decision-making will remain the responsibility of the salaried staff.
- Mandatory minimum 2 weeks holidays every 2 months.
- If you are from outside the EU, you will need a long-term resident permit in France. RWC cannot support you financially in the visa request.
HOW TO APPLY:
Send your CV and a supporting statement, in English or French, outlining your experience and motivation to recrutement@refugeewomenscentre.com with the subject line ‘Warehouse & Stock Civic Volunteering Application’.