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Australian Volunteers Program

Australian Government (DFAT), managed by AVI Australia · remote

Government-funded program matching skilled Australians with partner organisations across the Pacific, Asia and Africa on in-country, remote or hybrid volunteer assignments, with financial and wellbeing support.

Free to start · no account needed

Get your tailored résumé and short bio for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes.

You look at it first. Nothing is submitted without your tap.

About

Also: financial support during assignment; wellbeing support; in-country, remote or hybrid options; assignment alerts.

Who can apply: Australian citizens or permanent residents (or NZ residents in Australia on a Special Category Visa), aged over 18 with no upper age limit.

Free to apply.

Assignments posted continuously. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

How to apply: through the organiser's own application portal (you need an account there).

What to prepare: resume, cover letter.

From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “We offer remote, in-country and hybrid volunteer assignments.”

Who can apply

  • Open to licensed professionals, working professionals, people in a career transition, creators and freelancers
  • Australian citizens or permanent residents (or NZ residents in Australia on a Special Category Visa), aged over 18 with no upper age limit.

What you will need

  • RésuméUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
  • Cover letterOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.

How to apply

Applications go through the official page (own portal), which needs an account in your name.

How Onward Scout helps

This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.

Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.

Let Onward Scout prepare this application

Get your tailored résumé and short bio for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to Australian Government (DFAT), managed by AVI without your tap.

Nothing is submitted without your tap. Logins, CAPTCHAs, payments and interviews stay with you.