Stowarzyszenie BONA FIDES i Volonterski Centar Vojvodine (VCV) poszukują wolontariuszy na projekty EVS w Serbii (Novi Sad). Zgłoszenia (CV i list motywacyjny w języku angielskim) prosimy przesyłać na adres [email protected]
Zgłoszenia przyjmujemy do 20 lipca 2014 roku.
HOSTING ORGANIZATION: Volonterski Centar Vojvodine (VCV)
PLACE: Novi Sad, Serbia
DURATION: 12 months
SERVICE DATES: 1.09.2014-31.08.2015
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The volunteer will be involved in decision-making processes, especially if it concerns areas that she/ he is involved in directly. Volunteers are also welcome to contribute with his/her ideas to the HO in general. On an everydau basis, he will be involved in contacts and mutual activities with local active members of VCV and with young people from different local communities of Vojvodina. Through this activities, the volunteer will get to know more about the situation of youth in Serbia. He/ She will interact with young people from Novi Sad and other cities in Serbia and see what their everyday life looks like. Volunteer will also learn about possibilities for youth work and international voluntary work opportunities in Serbia and compare this with the situation in his/her own country. The intetntion is that the EVS-volunteer can use the experience in his/her own organization as well as in future common youth activities between Serbia and Poland. Also in this part of project, the volunteer has the possibility to add something extra to the organization.
Organization’s activists work during the winter with member contatcts, planning of camps, general administration, organizational structure, networking etc. The volunteer will have more time to develop a workshop programme, according to volunteer’s skills and interests, which will contribute to the ongoing reflection within VCV as well as spreading the idea of voluntarism to other young
people.
General tasks:
VCV is an organization,which co-operates with a significant number of NGOs from Serbia, See region and Europe. The main area of work is work with volunteers, youth and community development. Volunteer will have the possibility to engage in these areas of work and to contribute to positive changes in Serbia. The volunteer will also have the space and the opportunity to propose and start new initiatives with the support of volunteers engaged in VCV. One of the main tasks for the volunteer will be the promotion of voluntarism, voluntary work and VCV to young people in Novi Sad and other cities in Serbia. The volunteer will help in preparing and implementing workshops/presentations to young people in Novi Sad and other towns in Serbia in order to motivate them to participate in different voluntary projects organized by VCV and/or similar organizations. The volunteer will, as a part of this
project, visit different VCV’s partner organization and together with other VCV represenatatives present VCV and its activities. The Volunteer will help in contacting local youth groups in Novi Sad and other towns i Serbia and arranging logistics for presentations.
He/she will prepare interactive presentation/workshops with VCV’s PR group and take part actively in these presentations.
Work plan/ detailed tasks:
During the Spring-Summer season, the main activity is the co-ordination of the international exchenge of volunteers connected to short-term voluntary projects. If he/she is interested, can become a co-leader of some of international activities. Autumn- Winter is the period of the evaluation of last year’s activities and already planning the short-term volunteering projects for the next season. It consists of working with groups leaders in their preparation for leading short-term voluntary service activities: organizastion of activities, monitoring, evaluation, facilitation, etc. (30%)
The volunteer is fully engaged in the life of the organization. The task concerning this is the general support to the work of VCV (team meeting, administrative tasks, website update, brainstorming, logistics, etc.). Volunteer can get involved in projects that are more general or get familiar with tasks of specific working groups and join them in more profiled activities (30%)
The local infrastructure creates many possibilities for self-initative activities. If the volunteer is willing to develop his/her own ideas, he/ she can count on the support no only from the organization’s members, but also representatives of other cultural, humanitarian or environmental institutions. (20%)
International volunteers in Serbia establish a network between each other. They co-operate with local youth organizations, cultural institutions as well as with surrounding municipalities. (20%)
The Host Organization are going to:
– provide accomodation (the EVS-volunteer will be living in an appropriately equpped flat, there are sanitary facilities and a
kitchen; accommodation will be found by the HO and discussed with the volunteer and the SO),
– provide food allowance and pocket money (the EVS-volunteer will receive money for food together with his pocket money every
month; volunteer will manage money on her/his own, and from these finances, he/she will also buy his/her food; she/he will perpare
food her-/himself, in the flat, where he/she will be living; he/she will be able to use the kithcen there),
The working day is 5 hours and the volunteer will work 5 days a week; this working time can be flexible, depending on the scope of work; occasionally, work on VCV projects demands full-day presence, or engagement over the weekend, but this will be duly compensated by additional free time; national holidays are days off; the volunteer can take two weeks of during the project, in agreement with the hosting organization,
RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Generally we are open for every interested in this project. Gender doesn’t matter. We think and suggest that volunteers who would be most satisfy about this project would be volunteers who is interested in the topic of the project. We woudlike to find the person who will be interested in projects’ activities and in the philosophy of the HO and SO organization. We are open for everybody no matter which sex, age, religion, nationality or background the volunteer has. We appreciate the interest, strong motivation and him/her ideas for the project. He/She should be interested in Serbia, should be flexible, communicative and independent. Also he/she should spend this voluntary period on things that will bring big positive impact on his/her life – achieving new skills, making new friends, gaining new knowledge.
The information about project will be put on the SO website, YouthNetWorks webpage and the basis of the acreditated organization, so the information about project will be spread really very wildly.
From EVS canditates we would like to recieve CV and motivation letter and special application form, which SO and HO will prepare togheter. After we will recieve all of those CVs, motivation letters and special application forms we will have a meeting with a staff of Bona Fides. We will read all documents and speak about potential candidates. With candidates we will like the most we will contact and talk about project and motivation (because motivation is the most important thing for us and our parner). Once more the Bona Fides staff will meet and disccus the best candidates. After that we would like to send the best of applications to our partner, VCV. The all of the rest we are going to spread information about results.
If HO would have problems to choose a specific candidates they are planing to speak with them via SKYPE. With this complicated procedure we would like to match the profile of the volunteer with the projects’ issues the best. We and our partner are looking for reasonable, ”adult” volunteers who will know what they want to do with their free time.
Bona Fides Asociation as well as VCV do not have any candidates age requirements, we are going to obey the Programme rules and will choose volunteers in age between 17 and 30 years old. We are open for all of candidatures, doesn’t matter age, but attidtude of candidates. We want to have strongly motivated young people, who will be focused on the project’s objective, that do not turn up that it was only a momentary Serbia trip whim. We are going to not descriminate the volunteers by their sex, we will be objective in our choice and will try to chose the same number of male and female, if the moitivation of them will be equal.
For the process of the selection important is:
1. Motivation of participation (especially in this project),
2. The volunteer will not be discriminated by his/her own gender, religion, political or sexual orientation,
3. It is very important for us that the volunteer will be ready for his/her volunteering service (generally awarness),
4. The volunteer will be independent and flexible,
5. The most important thing is his/her creativity to run his/her own project in Novi Sad,
6. The volunteer will be open-minded and also a person with big responsibility.