Volunteer Migration Advisor - Wellington

Role description

Volunteer Migration Advisors are part of our Migration Advisory Group, made up of refugee background people with lived experience of resettlement in Aotearoa New Zealand. They help provide a National Board representative and senior staff in our Migration team with advice and recommendations on Red Cross services that support asylum seekers, convention refugees, former refugees and their families in their transition into New Zealand society. You will receive input and feedback from other former refugees and refugee background communities about these services.

The Migration Advisory Group meets six times per year on weekends - three in-person and three online.

Your tasks 

You’ll be helping people navigate life in a new country, which might include:  

• Contribute skills and knowledge by participating actively in meetings.
• Prepare for meetings by reading agendas, minutes, reports, and other documentation required to actively participate in them.
• Inform the Board and Senior staff of current issues affecting refugees, asylum seekers and refugee background communities in New Zealand.
• Provide advice as required for national migration programme staff regarding service development.
• Provide a client / former refugee perspective to the Board on all aspects of the Board’s work
• Keep up to date with issues and trends that affect our services for former refugees

For more information about this role and to apply please head over to our website:

Volunteer Migration Advisor - Wellington

If you have any questions, please email Aklilu.H@redcross.org.nz