Espanha

3760

Data de início: 01-02-2014

Data de fim: 01-12-2014

Vagas: 2

Duração: 10 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 06-09-2013

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 105 €

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Resumo: The hosting organization is a museum is located in the city and all its activities have the goal of explaining the scientific culture in a fun and attractive way to all, from youngest to eldest.

The organization is visited by all, but mostly schools and residents, so it is a unique environment merging into a society as cosmopolitan and open as the city is. The working environment is mainly young, because along with the monitors, many young students, graduate and qualified youngsters choose to do their internships and collaborations in the organization.

The organization serves different areas of the project’s structure / framework, which consist of:
• Promoting participation and intercultural learning.
• Youth information.
• Promoting volunteering.
• Promoting young people's entrepreneurial skills and innovation.
• Promotion and support of groups, clubs and youth association activities in the city.
• Participation in exchange projects, volunteering and experiences with other
countries where young people are the main actors.

As to the place of residence of the volunteer, we have provided one in the city near the Museum.

The city lies in a privileged natural enclave. Its municipality borders measure 398,25 square kilometres and its metropolitan population reaches one million inhabitants.

The Mediterranean Sea borders the coast and the mountains encircle it, forming a mountain barrier which defends it from cold, its weather being characterized by its mild temperatures, thanks to the sea role as a thermal regulator. The hottest months are July and August, and the coldest are December and February, with an average temperature of 22,8º C maximum and 13 º C minimum. The pluviosity distribution in the city is very well defined for each season, with most rainfall in Autumn and Winter.

The geostrategic localization of Málaga in the south of Europe and the proximity of the Magreb border provides it with a variety of opportunities present in the international relations, as well as in the economic and sociocultural development of the area. The city also has a privileged position as the first tourist area of the peninsula, making it a lively and warm place which combines art, culture and traditions with the shores of the Mediterranean. Its three thousand years of history have provided it with its character of being an open-minded, touristic, shopping and welcoming city; in short, a cosmopolitan city with an eternal universal aspiration.

The city with the most increased economic activity, as reflected in the Caixa’s Economic Yearbook 2010, reaching a level of 1,714 points, ranking it 5th in the national ranking. It is a city characterized by shops and services and, being the capital of the Costa del Sol, it has a significant tourism revenue that is stimulated by the airport, which is considered the major intermodal center in southern Spain in terms of strategic importance.

The city has a rich architectural and archaeological heritage. With more than twenty museums, Málaga has become a real Museums City. Its historical museum brings together up to 24 spaces with options for all tastes, from sacred art to more contemporary art, through popular art or interactive museums.

Perfil: The volunteers need to send the following documents: CV (English and/or Spanish); Covering letter (English and/or Spanish); and the application form (English and/or Spanish). In order to take part in the selection process, the volunteers must send their CV and a covering letter. Regarding pre-selection process of candidates, they are required to fill-out the application form in order to evaluate the different profiles and initial motivations for our project.

After the pre-selection process, the organization will carry out a telephonic interview to see who are more suitable for our project and, afterwards, the volunteer will be chosen.

The organization is looking for a volunteer with the following profile: a responsible person with motivation and initiative, who wants to participate in the museum activities, who will be willing to share his/her cultural perspective while performing them, with disposition to a collaborative work, and who will be committed and interested in working with a diverse and wide range of public. The organization will pay special attention to the ones who have less opportunities.

The organization is a science museum, but the volunteer need not to have scientific knowledge although it will be considered useful. Nonetheless, it will never be an indispensable and compulsory requirement. The same happens in what refers to computing and/or audiovisual skills (video recording, taking pictures, image softwares or video edition, as Photoshop or Premiere, web design and so on).

We are looking for enthusiastic and open-minded volunteers, with a receptive attitude to share experiences and ideas. We would like to host someone who really wants to have a volunteering learning experience, and who is willing to develop himself/herself from a personal and professional point of view.

We search for young people that feel the meaning of “being a volunteer” and want to carry out this service as better as possible, with a positive attitude and, above all, with motivation and initiative to develop his/her own personal projects within the activities of the organization.
age: 18 until 30 years old

Tarefas: The organization can offer volunteers different aspects of informal learning from a privileged context such as an interactive science and technology museum with special features that make it unique in Spain. The volunteer will also have the opportunity in the organization of getting in touch with different cultures and new situations, of accepting and talking positively with diference, overcoming conflicts, while the volunteers themselves have the opportunity to contribute in a creative way to our work by exposing new ideas.

The organization features as an interactive science and technology museum that serves a diverse and varied public. In addition to museum visits, it organizes many activities inside and outside its doors. It becomes a center offering a wide range of possibilities for volunteering in the field of education, culture, tourism, communication, etc. The volunteer will have the opportunity to interact with many different kinds of people, and also within a work environment of mostly youngsters. The organization will provide the volunteer with everything he/she needs in order to be integrated in the local community, socialize, participate in activities of all kinds, and meet other volunteers in Málaga. Therefore, the development of the volunteer’s social and cultural skills is another important aspect to focus in.

Of course the new technologies will be present, since the organization website is updated daily and can be reached in social networks. We are also doing an important audiovisual work to document how the museum operates, and activities in which the volunteer may participate as well.

Regarding language skills, learning Castilian will be one of the opportunities that will be offered to the volunteer, but he can also develop his skills in other languages, given that the organization is a center that welcomes visitors from different places and different languages.
The organization performs since its beginning educational activities that are part of the modus operandi of the museum, which may be enjoyed by the volunteer, as well as personal support, assistance during the learning process and development of Youthpass.

The volunteer will join the daily work of the organization and he/she will participate and collaborate in the developing of our activities, accompanied by a tutor or responsible from who he/she will get the necessary support for the learning process. A responsible of the organization will take care of the supervision for the assistance regarding the tasks. The volunteer will not occupy a job and the developed tasks will not be essential for the normal running of the museum. In fact, a special learning plan will be designed for his/her personal enrichment, but at the same time he/she will be considered as a value-added person and he/she will be invited to contribute with new ideas and develop new projects.

All this will help the volunteer acquiring skills which will allow him to improve his personal autonomy, his freedom of choice and his professional and personal possibilities, as well as getting language skills and contributing to the development of a local community in a european citizenship context. All of them are the fundamental objectives of the programme “Youth in Action Programme”.

To sum up, all the activities and tasks carried out in the organization in which the volunteer is invited to participate and/or collaborate, accompanied by a tutor and under the supervision of a responsible, are:

• Collaborate and/or participate in the organization and distribution of the groups who visit the museum
• Collaborate and/or participate in the tour guide, accompanying visitors in their way through the the organization exhibition room, especially the visitors with special needs (disabled, people coming from social services, seniors, etc.)
• Collaborate and/or participate in the adaptation of activities to different publics (adults, children, etc.) and groups from a very diverse nature:
- Students of all levels of education and from all social spectrums.
- Family groups.
- Disabled.
- Different associations: neighbours, groups with social services issues, employment formation workshops.
- Seniors.
- International Tourism.

• Collaborate and/or participate in the preparation of the different museum materials (educational, explicative, etc.).
• Collaborate and/or participate in the different activities which the organization carries on:

- Astronomical observations.
- Series of cinema forums.
- Promotion conferences series
- Formative courses for teachers, trainees and general public.
- Science European Week celebrations and open days.
- Participation in science events outside the organization.
- Visits to other science museums.

• Collaborate and/or participate in workshops carried out in school holiday periods for children and specific distinct groups, like people who are different from the current patterns.
• Collaborate and/or participate with the press and communication department: press releases, websites and the organization social networks.
• Collaborate and/or participate in the conception, recording and edition of science experiments, asthe organization.

The working hours of the volunteer will be from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (30 hours per week) and two afternoons per week he/she will have the language support. He will accumulate 2.5 days of holidays per month (for each month of volunteering) to be used at any time with previous notice to the organization. In the event of planning an activity for the weekend, and always with the consent of the volunteer, he/she would have additional days of holidays.

All these activities do not, in any case, replace any job since the organization consists of a structure based on a modus operandi and of permanent staff independent to the incorporation of volunteers. All the tasks are unique and specificly conceived for the volunteers, which are not administrative and which, of course, do not have any commercial purposes. On the other hand, the volunteer can collaborate and/or participate in all activities performed in the museum provided that they are of interest to him.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês ou espanhol