Employers value OU students for their diverse perspectives, as well as for their skills and qualities, and many aim to create more diverse workforces to include those perspectives. Some roles require people with specific characteristics and/or lived experiences. Below are some of the current roles from employers seeking to increase diversity or gain insights into a range of societal factors and individual characteristics.
Communications Internship with Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire | Inclusion Scotland | 21 Oct 2024
The internship will provide support to VANL’s Communications Team to help with day-to-day communications work, such as social media posts, distribution of group emails and updating VANL’s organisational database.
Change 100 Internship Programme | Leonard Cheshire | 01 Nov 2024
Leonard Cheshire’s Change 100 programme offers paid work opportunities, professional development and mentoring. It’s designed to support the career development of talented university students and recent graduates with any disability, long-term illness & mental health conditions.
Data Consultant (London) | auticon | 24 Nov 2024
auticon is an IT Consultancy and Social Enterprise who aim address the inequalities in employment for neurodivergent adults by providing long-term career opportunities for autistic adults, who are then employed as IT and Data Consultants.
Data Consultant (Manchester/Leeds) | auticon | 24 Nov 2024
auticon is an IT Consultancy and Social Enterprise who aim address the inequalities in employment for neurodivergent adults by providing long-term career opportunities for autistic adults, who are then employed as IT and Data Consultants.
Support Group Co-facilitator (online) | Bipolar UK | 31 Dec 2024
This online role involves co-facilitating a regular online meeting, completing group reports, reporting incidents, and sending group email reminders to members. You will need to have personal experience of bipolar and be IT literate with a basic understanding of Zoom.
Peer Support Line Volunteer | Bipolar UK | 31 Dec 2024
Bipolar UK’s peer support line volunteers help people affected by bipolar through one-to-one telephone calls and emails. This includes using skills and lived experience to offer reassurance, guidance and support to people who use their services, whether they be pre- or post diagnosis, family members, friends or carers.
Black Professionals UK Returnship Programme (#BlackTalent Programme) | Black Professionals UK | 31 Dec 2024
The Black Professionals UK (BPU) Returnship Programme, #BlackTalentProgramme, is designed to help skilled Black professionals and recent migrants to the UK transition back into the workforce, helping users connect with leading UK organizations, offering short-term paid placements, and helping them gain valuable UK work experience
Bright Futures - Access 2025 | Clyde & Co | 06 Jan 2025
This programme offers first year law, or penultimate year non-law undergraduate students from lower socioeconomic background an opportunity to gain commercial work experience.
Bright Futures - Black Talent 2025 | Clyde & Co | 06 Jan 2025
Offering first year law, or penultimate year non-law undergraduate students from black heritage backgrounds an opportunity to gain commercial work experience.
Black Professionals UK Internship Programme (#BlackInterns Programme) | Black Professionals UK | 30 Jan 2025
Are you a Black undergraduate or postgraduate student looking to kickstart your career with hands-on experience? The Black Professionals UK (BPU) Internship Programme, #BlackInterns, may be your gateway to gaining valuable work experience across various industries in the UK.
