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3976

Data de início: 01-09-2014

Data de fim: 01-08-2015

Vagas: 1

Duração: 11 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 11-02-2014

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 125 €

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Resumo: The association is a part of a national network that is conducting trainings for youth workers and organizes holiday camps for children.

The city and the surrounding area; a dynamic and open area
the city and the surrounding area has nearly 350 000 inhabitants, and is the first regional area. It is located in the heart of the Valley.

The city is in 2013 in the process of constructing a tramway, and is also marked by the continuous expansion of the intercommunalité.

The dynamism of the city is particularly linked to the student life, with more than 2800 international students in 2011, and to activities carried out by associations, being both cultural and related to childhood and youth.

Being a city on the crossroads, the openness of the city is linked to the structure of the highway, to the major railroad which passes through the city, as well as the international airport; which connects the city with large cities, both French and European. The system of collective transport, with buses and rental bicycles, enables everyone to travel both within and outside of the city.

Since 1993, the organization has worked with the youth in the region. As an association for youth and popular education, it incorporates possibilities for civil society and for sharing with other actors.

The organization is governed by a board, and has a structure consisting of volunteers, commissions (intercultural, pedagogical and local life). This allows people to become involved in specific actions, to share ideas, and to have access to information. In addition, two permanent employees are in place in the city to ensure the administrative management and the coordination of activities of the association. From April 2012, there will also be an emplyee working on European mobility and intercultural issues. This will strengthen the association's activities related to these topics.

The organization thus conducts activities in the city, and in région Centre. The organization also occasionally conducts activities in abroad. The main seat of the association is in the city, where the employees share office premises with a dozen other associations active in a variety of fields (theater, education about international development, protection of the environment, etc.). At the local level, the collective of Europe 37, the youth associations the organizers of centers are all actors within the organization.

Perfil: The volunteer whom will be hosted by the organization will mostly be working with audiences consisting of children and youth. He/she must be attentive, curious and eager to transmit his/her knowledge through the youth work or other leisure activities. He/she should also be dynamic and a source of initiative for the organization of promotional events. The volunteer will be hosted in an inter-associative office structure, where his/her openness ability to get in contact with other people will be important for dealing with staff and volunteers belonging to various associations and topics. The volunteer should identify his-/herself with the values of the association: The values of exchange, sharing, openness and active citizenship. He/she will be expected to travel throughout the region, alone or accompanied. The volunteer will never be left alone in youth work activities; he/she will always be supported by a professional or an accredited volunteer. Skills related to the usage of computers and the Internet are welcome.

This offer will also be distributed to sending organizations that in the past have cooperated with our association.
At first, a selection will take place based upon formal criteria (the qualities of the applicants' CVs and letters of motivation. Then we will use small tests to better understand the personality and ability of the applicant to adapt to our association and its environment.

To ensure a non-discriminatory selection process, the selection will not be based upon criteria such as gender, country of origin, or the applicant's knowledge of the French language.
The selection process will begin five weeks prior to the deadline of the submission to the Youth in Action agency, and will last for maximum three weeks.
The applicants will be in the focus during the selection process, and we are therefore open to all kinds of sending associations.
Age: 18 until 30 years old

Tarefas: As a training association, the organization has developed a set of educational activities, trainings for leaders and managers, trainings for volunteers). The volunteers will have the possibility to benefit from these trainings. The volunteer will, for example, be offered to take part in the BAFA-trainings. In cooperation with the organizers of the summer camps and the staff at the leisure time centre, the volunteer will be invited to observe, and to become involved in a team of animators. The discovery of the field of animation is important because this field is something that is not common outside of France. The volunteer will attend arrival and mid-term trainings organized by the French agency of the Youth in Action. Also, the volunteer will be attending French language courses for the first four (04) months of the mission. The Youthpass will be used as a tool to help the volunteer map his/her learning process and to map the development of his/her mission.

The role of the volunteer in The organization
The volunteer will be supervised by the coordinator of the association, and will be joining the staff in the city. He/she will also sometimes be accompanied by volunteers from the association, depending on the kind of activities that are being conducted (intercultural activities, youth work, trainings...).

The tutoring of the volunteer will be provided by a volunteer from the association whom has personal experiences with European mobility. Gradually, the volunteer will be required to participate in the regular activities which are happening in the association. The volunteers role will be to provide a reflexive dimension to our activities based upon his/her own experience and identity. Spread over two (02) main topics, the tasks are structured so that the volunteer will take part in both the regular and the specific activities that happens in the association.
European citizenship and mobility (40%): Promoting European citizenship and mobility programs among an audience of French young adults.

The volunteer will be given the opportunity to lead projects for different target groups in collaboration with the pedagogical staff. There will also be possibilities for the volunteer to cooperate with other volunteers about joint activities related to awareness and promotion of intercultural programs at the local and at the European level.

Socio-cultural work (60%): Sharing experiences and recreational hobbies with various audiences (children, youth) according to the profile/preferences of the volunteer.
The volunteer will be involved in conducting thematic activities for, among others, the audiences in the leisure time center. The volunteer will be offered to participate in a BAFA-training.

He/she will also be able to organize specific activities in cooperation the partner organizations of the organization and to cooperate with employees and with volunteers. He/she will also be participating in promotional events taking place in public spaces in the city and the surrounding area (for example the Day of Europe, the Day of International Cooperation, the festival of street debating, etc.). During the phase of adaption, that more or less will correspond with the period the volunteer will be attending the language courses, the volunteer will have time to reflect on his/her personal goals and to make decisions about what kind of projects they want to be involved in.

Horário:
The following is an example of a weekly schedule, consisting of 35 hours working time:
Monday
09h30 – 11h00 : Team meeting
11h30 – 13h00 : Weekly meeting with the mentor
14h00 – 18h00 : Preparing the activities for the week
Tuesday
09h30 – 13h00 : Preparation for pedagogical or intercultural interventions
14h00 – 16h00 : Preparation for pedagogical or intercultural interventions
16h00 – 18h00 : French language course
Wednesday
9h00 – 13h00 : Activities in the leisure time centre
14h00 – 16h30: Activities in the leisure time centre
Thursday
09h30 – 13h00 : Discovery of animations in the public spaces and preparation of a personal project
14h00 – 16h00 : Preparation of activities for sensibilisation about Europe or sociocultural activities
16h00 – 18h00: Time for the volunteer’s personal project or the discovery of organizational activities.
Friday
09h30 – 13h00 : Working on a personal project, alone or in cooperation with others
14h00 – 16h30 : Reviewing the last week, preparing new activities

Occasionally, the volunteer will be required to work during the weekends (depending on the activities that are planned). In this case, the volunteer will have less working hours during the following week, according to the legal regulations of labour. Similarly, activities may take place in the evenings (meetings, events) this will also be reason for the recovering of working hours.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês