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3277

Data de início: 01-08-2014

Data de fim: 31-07-2015

Vagas: 1

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 24-02-2014

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 150 €

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Resumo: The hosting organization is Northern Ireland’s leading youth focused civic education organisation. Northern Ireland is unfortunately still a difficult and sometimes violent environment for many of its young citizens, and with the notion of ‘National’ identity still highly contested, there has been little development of a sense of civic role and responsibilities (though not just amongst youth). Our work aims to help young people become the catalyst for the building of more democratic communities in Northern Ireland. We work with young people using in/non formal education methodology (youth work) in a range of settings as detailed previously. Our work is focussed on peace building and creating democratic space. This is this especially relevant as the current government has been unable to come to an agreement on the Community Relations policy ‘Cohesion, Sharing and Integration’ and this has meant no direction from government for community groups.

We work in communities that are exclusively protestant or catholic, as well as in mixed communities, and with young people from ethnic minority and young people with disabilities. Most of these communities experience severe social disadvantage and have been adversely affected by the conflict. Groups of young people meet on a regular basis (usually weekly) and are supported by the volunteer coach who helps to guide the group, but does not do the work for them. The staff work to manage the projects and support the volunteers. The staff in turn are managed by a Board of 7 people that includes 2 youth representatives.

In recent years we have continued to focus on the issue of violence with young people through our ‘Away from Violence’ project. Young people continue to experience high levels of violence in their everyday lives, but are rarely naming it as such. They see it as part of their existence. We believe this is due to the legacy of the conflict and the normalisation of a culture of violence within communities in Northern Ireland. The current riots being a particular example. For example one of our groups is working on car crime as it is prevalent on their area. Cars are stolen by local young people and then brought back into their communities to be rallied around the streets and eventually burnt out. Our work is to enable young people to realise that violence should not be part of their everyday existence and there are other ways to tackle disadvantage and discrimination.

We also do a lot of international work with colleagues in other conflict/post conflict regions such as the Middle East, Spain, and South Africa. Last summer we held a youth exchange with young people from the Basque region of Spain. In October 2012 we had young people from the project presenting at a UNESCO conference in Paris. Currently our CEO is in South Africa to work alongside other youth groups on evaluation and also to continue to support the work of the Radio.

In 2012 we were awarded a Big Society award for our ongoing work in Civic Education and our campaign and lobbying work with the project.

The EVS volunteers will stay in private rented accommodation source in cooperation with other EVS hosts in Northern Ireland. House rules are typically generated by the housemates.

Perfil: In terms of profile of the volunteers our main requirements is that the volunteers have a strong personal motivation for working with and supporting young people to create positive social change.

Whilst experience is always useful, this is by no means a pre requisite as training will be provided. In terms of language skills, a reasonable standard of English is important, as it is essential in terms of communicating with colleagues and young people – however additonal language courses will be financed and supported.

age: 18 until 30 years old

Tarefas: The appointed person’s primary role will be to assist the host organization to develop active citizenship projects with groups of young people in Northern Ireland – primarily as part of our Away from Violence programme but also in the programme. The person appointed will work regularly with groups of young people in the role of a volunteer coach. This will include regular, unsupervised and one-to-one contact with the young people involved in the organization groups.

Main duties and responsibilities
•Youth work
The volunteer will assist with the setting up and supporting groups of young people, including the organising of weekly programmes and assisting the organization in the development of effective models of practice in the area of citizenship education. They will work closely with other PA staff in community, school and other settings.

•Multi-media Support and campaigning
The volunteer will assist in the ongoing development and upkeep of the project website. This will require creating (with the support of other organization staff) a range of multi-media resources, such as streaming video productions and working with young people to assist them in using creative multi-media resources.

•Volunteer Recruitment and Development
They will assist the Training Officer in the recruitment, training and support of a team of volunteer coaches at local sites and through organised training.

•Evaluation
They will assist with the monitoring and evaluation of the association practice including the progress of the groups, the individual young people involved and other volunteer staff.

•Reporting
Working with other staff they will be required (and supported) to provide regular reports on their work.

•Team Working
In addition to being a key member of the PA team, volunteers will have the opportunity to network with local youth service providers, district councils, and other bodies who impact on the lives of the young people in the groups. They will also liaise and work with staff of other partner organisations as appropriate

•Other Duties
The volunteer will be required to undertake such other reasonable duties as may

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês + Application Form

Download: 3277 - Application Form 2014.doc