About Movement in Refuge (MiR)
MiR is an international organisation promoting physical and mental health through sport and movement training to create safe, structured opportunities for conflict-affected communities. We started in the Rohingya refugee camps along the Bangladesh Myanmar border, home to one of the world’s largest refugee settlements, since 2017.
Our work is grounded in the conviction that sports and movement are beneficial to everyone and that people who have suffered enormous trauma and upheaval would greatly benefit from healthy movement, play and sport.
Together with our Bangladeshi partner NGO Sports for Hope and Independence (SHI), we deliver safe, dynamic and consistent coaching for women and girls, separately, for men and boys. Our trainers come from Bangladeshi Universities with degrees in physical education and sports science. They train refugees we refer to as community-based coaches - who are from and live in the refugee camps. Our planned academic partnerships with the University of Edinburgh, Leeds Beckett University, i-coach kids, will anchor our practice in research, and our growing connections across the UN system mean our work is scaling. We are at a pivotal moment and need your support to achieve our potential.
The Role
As Creative Focal Point, you will be the creative anchor for MiR's visual identity and communications output. This is not a single-task role, it sits at the centre of the organisation, connecting the work of our social media, video, outreach, and fundraising teams through a consistent, compelling creative vision.
You will help ensure that everything MiR produces, from social media graphics and donor reports to event materials, campaign assets, and merchandise, looks and feels like it comes from the same place: an organisation that takes its mission and its presentation seriously. This is a role for someone with strong visual instincts, creative range, and the ability to collaborate across a dispersed team.
Key Responsibilities
Lead on MiR's visual identity - maintaining brand consistency across all materials and platforms.
Design graphics, templates, and assets for use across social media, fundraising, outreach, events and merchandise.
Collaborate with the Social Media Lead, video editors, and other interns to ensure a cohesive creative output.
Produce materials for specific campaigns, partnership announcements, and programme milestones.
Edit and condense photographs from MiR's field activities for use in communications and reports.
Support the design of presentations, donor reports, and funding proposals.
Develop and maintain a shared library of creative assets for use across the team.
Bring creative ideas to the table - MiR is still building its identity, and your input will shape it
What You Will Gain
Being part of the MiR internship programme means joining a lean, fast-moving international development organisation at a pivotal moment in its growth. You will gain:
A substantial, real-world portfolio of creative work produced for an active international NGO.
Experience shaping the visual identity of a growing organisation from an early stage, the kind of creative ownership that is rare to find.
Collaboration with a cross-functional team spanning communications, fundraising, and field programmes.
Real responsibility and creative input, not peripheral tasks.
A formal reference letter from MiR leadership on successful completion.
Access to MiR's growing network of academic, UN, and civil society partners.
Mentorship from practitioners with decades of field experience across the UN system and international NGOs.
Time Commitment
5 - 20 hours per week over a minimum of 4 months. This is a remote, unpaid internship. Hours are flexible and can be arranged around your academic commitments, with scope to increase your contribution during holidays or free periods if that suits you.
How You Will Be Supported
MiR is small but structured. Every intern is assigned a direct point of contact within our team who will oversee your work and provide regular feedback. You will receive a structured onboarding covering MiR's mission, values, safeguarding framework, and current priorities. We hold regular team check-ins and will not leave you to figure things out alone.
We take your development seriously. We want you to leave with more skills, more confidence, and a stronger creative portfolio than you came with.
Eligability
If you are a student or early-career creative with a genuine interest in MiR's mission: using sport and movement to improve lives in some of the world's most challenging humanitarian settings. A background in graphic design, art, visual communications, film, photography, or a related discipline is an advantage. What matters most is a strong visual sensibility, the ability to work independently, and a commitment to producing work that reflects the communities and cause it represents.