✨ Join Demokratik UK & Eire! ✨
📌How to apply?
Please complete this form 👉 https://forms.gle/UVS7AXb7UU8w5afb9
You’ll be asked to:
* Submit your CV
* Answer: Why do you want to join DMK? (max 300 words)
* Answer: Which team do you want to join in DMK and why? (max 300 words)
👩🎓 Type: Volunteer, part-time student role
⏰ Hours: 3–5 per week, flexible
📍 Location: Remote with occasional London meet-ups for events and makan-makan. Around 3–5 hours per week, flexible around exams.
💰 Compensation: Unpaid role, but a Letter of Recommendation would be available based on contribution.
🌍 Eligibility: Open to all backgrounds; you don’t have to be Malaysian/Southeast Asian to be part of our team! We welcome students as well as working professionals.
💡 About us
Demokratik UK & Eire (@demokratik.uke on IG) is a progressive, student-led organisation founded to ignite and foster intellectual discourse amongst Malaysian university students studying in the UK. We run student-led forums, debates, and speaker events on issues that matter to Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Recent work includes campus speaker proposals, cross-society collaborations, and debate-style events that build real public-engagement skills. DMK has hosted a range of speakers and forums, including Clare Rewcastle Brown, the British investigative journalist who exposed the 1MDB scandal; Jalil Rasheed, the youngest CEO of Malaysia’s largest fund management firm, PNB; alongside Malaysian youth activists on topics like women’s sexual and reproductive health and political advocacy.
In recent years, we’ve broadened our conversation to include issues concerning our friends and peers from all across Southeast Asia. Historically, Southeast Asians possess a common and shared experience of colonial struggles whose long-term impacts continue to shape our lives today. As the world becomes more interconnected through globalisation, and as cross-border migration, trade, and cultural exchange continue to sprout, DMK believes it is the right time to bring together the bright minds from across the region to foster critical discourse about the future of ASEAN.
💼 Role Description
This is a flexible, remote-first volunteer role (3–5 hours per week) with occasional in-person events in London. As a Demokratik UK & Eire Associate, you will contribute to one of our core teams — such as Environmental Matters, Social Justice, Judiciary & Constitutional Affairs, Development, Creative Expression, Community-Building, International Outreach, or Social Media Outreach.
Your responsibilities may include:
* ✍️ Research & Analysis: Explore issues in your chosen focus area, from climate change to social justice, and prepare discussion materials.
* 📝 Content Creation: Draft event briefs, social media posts, or speaker notes to support our forums and campaigns.
* 🎤 Event Support: Help organise and host debates, speaker sessions, and community socials (remote or in London).
* 🌐 Outreach & Engagement: Connect with student societies, regional partners, and community stakeholders.
* 🤝 Collaboration: Work closely with peers across UK campuses in a respectful, engaging, and intellectually curious environment.
👥 Our Teams (pick your passion!):
* Environmental Matters🌱
* (degradation, habitat loss, climate policy, externalities of environmental loss, etc)
* Social Justice🤝
* (ethnic, racial, religious, gender, equality, etc)
* Judiciary & Constitutional Affairs⚖️
* (laws, constitution, regulations, rights, etc)
* Development📊
* (economic growth, social policy, inequality, education, healthcare, etc)
* Creative Expression🎨
* (music, art, film, political media, cultural events, etc)
* Community-Building🎉
* (forging social bonds, outreach, hosting social events, mixers, etc)
* International Outreach🌐
* (relationships with Malaysia-based orgs, Southeast Asian societies, UK partners, etc)
* Social Media Outreach📱
* (graphic design, reels, carousels, event content, basic analytics, etc)
🙋 Who we want
You’re curious, open to political discussion, respectful in debate, and keen to learn. You must be organised, reliable, and cool to work with!!
🎁 What you get
Hands-on event execution, research, outreach, and content creation experience. Mentoring, networks across UK campuses, and a letter of recommendation based on your contribution.
When can I expect to hear back from DMK?
We aim to respond to candidates by the end of October/early November. All the best!