Rússia

2285

Data de início: 01-10-2013

Data de fim: 30-09-2014

Vagas: 2

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-03-2013

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 90 €

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Resumo: The volunteers will work in office, which is situated in city centre together with other staff members of the organization. The volunteers will have place to work and needed equipment (computer and other office's technique). The office is well accessible by local transport. As the office is the main contact place for Russian volunteers willing to go abroad, most of the year it is full of young people, searching for information, tips for good projects, wiling to help, interested in respective countries and issues. The EVS volunteers will work in cooperation with staff members of the hosting organization, depending on type of work. In the organization's office, there are seven employees. The staff in the office is young, very nice, mostly women, giving good and friendly atmosphere. There are many other volunteers around the office, working occasionally according to needs of the office.

The working day of the volunteer is 6 hours a day 5 days a week. We also provide volunteers with vacation during the project and they have right to take part in any organization's workcamps (which are not connected to YiA, as it is another type of volunteering). Optionally the organization consults volunteers about opportunities to travel in Russia during holidays and suggests special travel projects for volunteer's group integration and discovering of Russian treasures.

Conditions of life.
EVS volunteers will live in flats with other volunteers or in families. They will have to share domestic facilities with 2-5 other volunteers or family members. Each volunteer will have separated room, because it is important to have privacy for the volunteers. Volunteers will be provided with necessary kitchen equipment and bed-linen. The town is a very big city, so the way from home to the city centre can take 1-1,5 hours (like in any big city).

Volunteers can use Internet at the office of the organization 2-3 hours a week, and they can make telephone calls to home 5 minutes a week (of course, if they have SKYPE, they can take more time). Some volunteer's flats also provided with internet connection.

Every volunteer has a mentor from the local youth speaking English or native language of the volunteer on the level enough to communicate. There is an EVS supervisor in the organization whom volunteers meet at least 1 hour a week for discussion of the projects, and this supervisor is available for volunteers 24 hours a day for an emergency situations. Volunteers are provided with phone numbers of other staff members of the organization in case of unpredictable unavailability of supervisor. In case of predictable unavailability of supervisor, volunteers have instructions where to apply and whom to ask if they need.

Volunteers are provided with AXA medical insurance and can get a medical support of private clinics.

The organization organizes Russian linguistic courses for volunteers twice a week during the whole project.

Perfil: Volunteer candidate has to be, first of all, interested in making social service and has to be ready to face a difficult social adaptation in the country with very big cultural difficulties. The volunteer has to be motivated to learn how to work with wide audiences and to be ready to learn how to find contact with young people with different background and abilities in communication.

It would be nice if the volunteer will be interested in Russia as country, in Russian culture and language and if s/he would like to break stereotypes about Russians. All the candidates will be selected on the following criteria:
- motivation to learn and get skills;
- motivation to work with youth and to learn from experience;
- readiness to work hard or on the possible level;
- readiness to communicate in Russian or learn Russian;
- readiness to show national culture.

The volunteer doesn't have to be professional in the topic of the project. Because the project will give the experience of international work for the volunteer, as well as practise in communication with people from different background. During the project the volunteer will practise public presentation skills, project management, individual consulting, and work in a team. Besides the volunteer will improve his/her linguistic skills.

The most important criteria is strong motivation to do voluntary service and learn a lot from the project!

Tarefas: The projects have strong learning objectives for the volunteers. The volunteer will have a chance to learn about the history, culture, language, economy and national realities of Russia, will have the opportunity to get in touch with the local community. The volunteer will have plenty opportunity for intercultural learning.

We will involve the volunteers into the projects run by the organisation and its everyday life and give them an opportunity for a development of a personal and professional skills connected with planning, teamwork, administration, organisation and creation of activities within a broad range of organization's projects. Due to project's character, the volunteer will learn about different types of volunteering and charity.

The volunteer will always have contact with and support from experienced team members. There are regular team meetings and the project mentor will be available at all times for questions and support. The volunteer will closely co-operate with local volunteers to better understand the group process. The organization documentation on previous projects will also be a useful help for the volunteer. It is on responsibility of organisations that the volunteer will be prepared to work on self-assessment to get to know her/his new skills and knowledge. The volunteers together with supervisors and mentors will regularly evaluate his/her learning process by talking, discussing, playing. It helps then in issuing the Youthpass at the end of the activity.

The role of EVS volunteers.
The organization we would like to host two international volunteers at its office. The attitude to the volunteer will be kind and positive and will be given a real say in project activity and development. We have experienced staff and volunteers on hand to provide practical training and support so no previous skills are necessary. More importantly we want person who has enthusiasm and a commitment to get involved. Volunteer will take part in regular weekly office meetings. We would like to be the "family" abroad to any volunteer open to intercultural experiences. The volunteer will be given the opportunity to integrate in our community and play an important and essential role in our work.

The main goal of volunteer's work in supposed project is promotion of youth international projects of non-formal education for youth, development of workcamps program among NGOs and involvement of big number of Russian young people into workcamp activities in the fourth Russian city.

The themes of the projects is youth, youth communication, cultural exchange, development of tolerance and solidarity between young people. The volunteer will organize different activities for different groups of youth. As well volunteer can be asked by the staff of the organization to help them in other issues. Besides, volunteer will have a chance to organize activities for staff of the organization, for example explaining them about the experience of work with youth in the same organizations in his/her country.

All the activities will be organized by non-formal and informal education way, concrete tasks to do will be discuss together with the volunteer during the preparation period and at the begining of the project. All the activities will give for youth the support different from the regular work of specialists.

Activities in which the volunteers could be involved.
The volunteer can be involved in the activities in the office and out of office (Universities, schools, workcamps, events), depends on volunteer's wishes. Examples of typical tasks for the volunteer are:

The volunteer will be involved in promotion campaign of voluntary projects:
- to search for places for the presentations, organize different promotion actions, organize and participate in the presentations of workcamps, work with local volunteers, who are going to help in the office;
- to write articles about volunteering, give interviews to local newspapers and TV programs;
- lightening of possibilities of cooperation with Russians for foreign NGOs, schools and universities;
- if the volunteer will wish, s/he will have possibility to update the web-page, to upload some news about workcamps in Russia.

The volunteer will help with coordination of international voluntary exchanges (workcamps):
- first of all to get to know about the all system of international workcamps, to get kind of training;
- to lead primary consultations and first coming consultations in the office, prepare materials for the presentations, make a data base of all possible workcamps;
- to help future volunteers to tell them what is workcamp and volunteering in general, to choose project, to fill all necessary documents in, to fill in the volunteer data base;
- to give informational support to foreign workcamp volunteers, to prepare some useful links about Russia, to control that all volunteers receive all necessary documents like invitation, visa and info sheet in time;
- to contribute with the hosting organization in order to help them and control that everything were ready in time.

The volunteer will have chance to help with other activities :
- in the period when the organization leads the workcamps, which are not supported by any grant of European Commission. The EVS volunteer will go to some of our workcamps to be a co-campleader;
- to take active part in organization of trainings of the organization (training for camp leaders, volunteers).

The volunteer will have chance to organize own mini project on the base of the organization with cooperation of any NGO in Nizhniy, which will be created according to the interest of the volunteer. If the volunteer would like to take up and initiate own activities, s/he will be provided with proper support. The volunteer will be given the possibility and responsibility to initiate and execute his/her own projects. Any support necessary for his/her activities will be provided by us. We expect this to develop in course of time, according to how comfortable the volunteer feels, when he/she will learn the language etc. The volunteer would develop a concept together with the staff how to transfer his/her knowledge about this hobby or talent to the project

Horário: Monday
11:00 - 14:00 planning activities for the volunteer, explanation about systems of work, technicalities. Start with easy tasks (database, information research)
14:00 - 15:00 lunch time
15.00 - 17.00 meetings with Russian volunteers, speaking about ways of volunteering
17:0 - 18:00 private time in office (internet, phone calls)

Tuesday
11:00 - 14:00 visiting other places with presentations (universities, schools, etc.)
14:00 - 15:00 lunch time
15.00 - 17.00 time for answering easy e-mails (with support of staff person)
17:00 - 18:00 evaluation meeting with supervisor, mentor
18.30 - 20.00 Russian lessons

Wednesday
11.00 - 12.00 office technical meeting
12.00 - 14.00 communication with foreign volunteers, who will come to Russian workcamps, informational support
14:00 - 15:00 lunch time
15.00 - 18.00 preparation different information for presentations

Thursday
11:00 - 14:00 visiting other places with presentations (universities, schools, etc.)
14:00 - 15:00 lunch time
15.00 - 18.00 preparation for the realization of the own mini project
18.30 - 20.00 Russian lessons

Friday
11:00 - 14:00 realization of the realization of the own mini project
14:00 - 15:00 lunch time
15.00 - 18.00 realization of the of the own mini project

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês e formulário de inscrição

Download: CV SFERA (3).doc