Vereinigung Junger Freiwilliger

WF MTV – 01

Project coordinator – Environmental projects

 

Description:

Placement in the field:  Environmental Work / Group Management

 

Number of places: 4

 

Short description of the project/projects:  The volunteer will be involved in preparing, organizing, running and evaluating nature-oriented and environmental protection projects in Iceland. Those projects are organized with international volunteers and usually last for 2 weeks.

 

At the beginning of the stay here, she/he will receive qualified training from the organization members. This training will capacitate her/him to perform the projects´ activities, which vary between building tracks and hiking routes, cleaning beaches, planting trees and different kinds of environmental-related tasks. At the same time, will receive guidance in how to plan, organize and lead the projects, including topics as group management, conflict resolution, bookkeeping, development, leader roles, intercultural cooperation, motivation, etc. She/he will also receive practical information about planning a project, spare time activities, first aid, etc.

Once the season to working on the field arrives, the work will consist in supervising and developing the projects, coordinating groups of 6 to 20 international participants staying two weeks at a time. At the end of their stay in Iceland, the volunteer will be expected to produce an evaluation of the projects and their results.

 

Activities: Our primary activity is organizing environmental-related projects where people coming from different countries perform voluntary work. In organizing them, much emphasis has been put on making sure the volunteers see that their work is important, they help a community in need, or they work for the protection of the environment. In the meantime, they themselves form a community and get in close contact with locals as well as with other participants of the project from different cultures and nationalities. They find out about each other's habits and ways of life, also getting an insight to the problems of the area and its inhabitants.

 

 

Profile of the organization:  Veraldarvinir, Worldwide Friends (WF), was founded in 2001 as a non-profit organization promoting nature and peace oriented activities for volunteers wanting to spend some time in Iceland. We also send local volunteers intending to have similar experiences abroad. WF aims at promoting active participation of people and its mobility, intercultural learning and voluntary service, through non-formal educational activities. The main activities offered are workcamps, seminars, local events and exchange programmes suitable both for young people and adults. For further information visit our website www.wf.is 

WF is a non-profit, non-governmental organization with international scope; we are associated members of the Alliance of European Voluntary Organizations, The Youth council of Iceland and The Icelandic Environment Association. We are also partners of Service Civil International (SCI)

Location: WF Iceland is working in different places all around the island. The volunteer will have the opportunity to see different parts of the island during the project.

 

Salary per month:  None.

 

Starting dates: The volunteers can start their projects in three different dates 05.05.2011, 05.06.2011 and 05.07.2011. The on-arrival training will start the next day after arrival.

 

Duration:  Three to six Months

 

Provides accommodation:  Yes

Pays for accommodation:  Yes

Food is provided: Yes

Local travels related to the project: arranged and paid for.

Int. travels: Not paid

Insurance: Third part liability insurance is provided but the volunteers are encouraged to arrange a medical insurance before coming to Iceland.

 

Desired Profile Course of studies:  Particular field of studies or defined subjects are not set. WF would like to host someone motivated to work for an NGO promoting environmental and peace oriented activities.

 

Linguistic skills:  English spoken and written needed. Other languages are seen as an advantage.

 

Technical skills:  Management of basic data processing packages as Microsoft Excel and Project Management, Word, Outlook and Explorer.

 

Skills and competencies:  Ability to organize on her/his own initiative. Time-management skills and ability to work under time pressure during high peaks of the season.

 

Extra fee: 150 euro which will be used to provide a good on arrival training.

 

 

WF MTV – 02

Project coordinator – cultural activities

Description:

Placement in the field:  Art, culture, social, educational and renovation work / Group Management

 

Number of places: 4

 

Short description of the project/projects:  The volunteer will be involved in preparing, organizing, running and evaluating cultural, educational and social projects in Iceland. Those projects are organized with international volunteers and usually last for 2 weeks.

 

At the beginning of the stay here, she/he will receive qualified training from the organization members. This training will capacitate her/him to perform the projects´ activities, which vary between restoring houses, creating handicrafts, organizing educational projects in Icelandic kindergartens and as well festivals related to promote multiculturalism in the city of Reykjavik and other communities in Iceland. At the same time, will receive guidance in how to plan, organize and lead the projects, including topics as group management, conflict resolution, bookkeeping, tools good shape keeping, tools management, basic knowledge on construction and electricity skills, leader roles, intercultural cooperation, motivation, etc. She/he will also receive practical information about planning a project, spare time activities, first aid, etc.

Once the season to work in the field arrives, the work will consist in supervising and developing the projects, coordinating groups of 8 to 20 international participants staying two weeks at a time. At the end of their stay in Iceland, the volunteer will be expected to produce an evaluation of the projects and their results.

 

Activities: Our primary activity is organizing social, art and educational projects where people coming from different countries to perform voluntary work. In organizing them, much emphasis has been put on making sure the volunteers see that their work is important, they help the organization as much as they can in order to be successful in the projects. The organization has been growing a lot in the cultural and artistic field and it is very important for the coordinators to understand the importance of developing a good job where motivation, active participation and altruism are the main values and pillars to achieve the goals of WF in such projects.   In the meantime, they themselves form a community and get in close contact with locals as well as with other participants of the project from different cultures and nationalities.

  

Profile of the organization:  Veraldarvinir, Worldwide Friends (WF), was founded in 2001 as a non-profit organization promoting nature and peace oriented activities for volunteers wanting to spend some time in Iceland. We also send local volunteers intending to have similar experiences abroad. WF aims at promoting active participation of people and its mobility, intercultural learning and voluntary service, through non-formal educational activities. The main activities offered are workcamps, seminars, local events and exchange programmes suitable both for young people and adults. For further information visit our website www.wf.is 

WF is a non-profit, non-governmental organization with international scope; we are associated members of the Alliance of European Voluntary Organizations, The Youth council of Iceland and The Icelandic Environment Association. We are also partners of Service Civil International (SCI)

Location: WF Iceland is working in different places all around the island. The volunteer will have the opportunity to see different parts of the island during the project.

 

Salary per month:  None.

 

Starting dates: The volunteers can start their projects in three different dates 05.05.2011, 05.06.2011 and 05.07.2011. The on-arrival training will start the next day after arrival.

 

Provides accommodation:  Yes

Pays for accommodation:  Yes

Food is provided: Yes

Local travels related to the project: arranged and paid for.

Int. travels: Not paid

Insurance: Third part liability insurance is provided but the volunteers are encouraged to arrange a medical insurance before coming to Iceland.

 

Duration:  Three to six Months

 

Further support from the organisation:

 

Provides accommodation:  Yes

Pays for accommodation:  Yes

Food is provided: Yes

Local travels related to the project: arranged and paid for.

Int. travels: Not paid

Insurance: Third part liability insurance is provided but the volunteers are encouraged to arrange a medical insurance before coming to Iceland.

 

Desired Profile Course of studies:  Particular field of studies or defined subjects are not set. Volunteers with skills related to art and culture are encouraged to apply for the project.

 

Linguistic skills:  English spoken and written needed. Other languages are seen as an advantage.

 

Technical skills:  Management of basic data processing packages as Microsoft Excel and Project Management, Word, Outlook and Explorer.

 

Skills and competencies:  Ability to organize on her/his own initiative. Time-management skills and ability to work under time pressure during high peaks of the season.

 

Extra fee: 150 euro which will be used to provide a good on arrival training.

WF MTV 03

Driver

Description:

 

Placement in the field:  Driver – Transport, Administration, Practical

 

Number of places: 2

 

Short description of the project: 

 

·        Planning, organising and operating the transport of the participants to their camps

·        Doing basic shopping for the camps

·        Acting as a contact person from the organisation for the participants, workcamp coordinators, and, where necessary, local partners

 

The driver has to be aware that he has a somewhat special role – on the one hand he lacks the experience of living together with an international group of people for two weeks, and he is always a kind of “outsider” to the group. On the other hand, he meets all the different groups, sees all the camp sites, and thus gets a very good overview of everything. He also has the remarkable experience to bring a set of individuals to their camp, and take a close group back. For the camp coordinators he is the best personal connection to the WF headquarters and the other EVS volunteers; for the participants, and at times also for the local contacts, he functions as an important representative of the organisation.

 

Activities: Our primary activity is organizing environmental-related projects where people coming from different countries perform voluntary work. In organizing them, much emphasis has been put on making sure the volunteers see that their work is important, they help a community in need, or they work for the protection of the environment. In the meantime, they themselves form a community and get in close contact with locals as well as with other participants of the project from different cultures and nationalities. They find out about each other's habits and ways of life, also getting an insight to the problems of the area and its inhabitants.

  

Profile of the organization:  Veraldarvinir, Worldwide Friends (WF), was founded in 2001 as a non-profit organization promoting nature and peace oriented activities for volunteers wanting to spend some time in Iceland. We also send local volunteers intending to have similar experiences abroad. WF aims at promoting active participation of people and its mobility, intercultural learning and voluntary service, through non-formal educational activities. The main activities offered are workcamps, seminars, local events and exchange programmes suitable both for young people and adults. For further information visit our website www.wf.is 

WF is a non-profit, non-governmental organization with international scope; we are associated members of the Alliance of European Voluntary Organizations, The Youth council of Iceland and The Icelandic Environment Association. We are also partners of Service Civil International (SCI)

Location: WF Iceland is working in different places all around the island. The volunteer will have the opportunity to see different parts of the island during the project.

 

Salary per month:  None.

 

Starting dates: The volunteers can start their projects in three different dates 05.05.2011, 05.06.2011 and 05.07.2011. The on-arrival training will start the next day after arrival.

 

Duration:  Three to six Months

 

Provides accommodation:  Yes

Pays for accommodation:  Yes

Food is provided: Yes

Local travels related to the project: arranged and paid for.

Int. travels: Not paid

Insurance: Third part liability insurance is provided but the volunteers are encouraged to arrange a medical insurance before coming to Iceland.

 

Desired Profile Course of studies:  Particular field of studies or defined subjects are not set. WF would like to host someone motivated to work for an NGO promoting environmental and peace oriented activities.

The intern must be older than 23 years and with clean driving certificate for at least three years. 

 

Linguistic skills:  English spoken and written needed. Other languages are seen as an advantage.

 

Technical skills:  Management of basic data processing packages as Microsoft Excel and Project Management, Word, Outlook and Explorer.

 

Skills and competencies:  Ability to organize on her/his own initiative. Time-management skills and ability to work under time pressure during high peaks of the season. Secure driving on difficult roads, competence and calmness in pressurised situations, organisation and communication skills.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WF MTV – 04

Project coordinator – visual arts

 

Description:

Placement in the field:  Art, photographing, video making and editing, culture, social and educational work, environment and nature / Group Management.

 

Number of places: 4

 

Short description of the project/projects:  The volunteer will be involved in preparing, organizing, running and evaluating visual art and environmental projects in Iceland. Those projects are organized with international volunteers and usually last for 2 weeks. The purpose of those camps is to involve young international volunteers in a group experience where they can improve their communication and visual arts skills by capturing some memories in an unforgettable way using photographs and videos. Volunteers will put into action ideas about photography from capture to finished image.  In this camp, volunteers learn together from each other how to better express their vision and how to digitally edit images to highlight the same qualities that drew them to the scene to begin with. Volunteers will work on different themes, such as landscape, fishermen’s life, wildlife, light and colour, local lifestyle etc. In the evenings the volunteers will gather together to share photos and the camp will culminate in a photo exhibition.

 

Volunteers will also directly contribute to keeping the environment and communities that they are photographing clean and healthy. This will include four hours work per day, five days per week on environmental work, which may include tasks such as picking up litter along the coastline, planting trees, weeding or helping the local environmental department with whatever needs to be done .

 

At the beginning of the stay here, she/he will receive qualified training from the organization members. This training will capacitate her/him to perform the projects´ activities, at the same time will receive guidance in how to plan, organize and lead the projects, including topics as group management, conflict resolution, bookkeeping, tools good shape keeping, tools management, basic knowledge on construction and electricity skills, leader roles, intercultural cooperation, motivation, etc. She/he will also receive practical information about planning a project, spare time activities, first aid, etc.

Once the season to work in the field arrives, the work will consist in supervising and developing the projects, coordinating groups of 8 to 20 international participants staying two weeks at a time. At the end of their stay in Iceland, the volunteer will be expected to produce an evaluation of the projects and their results.

 

Activities: Our primary activity is organizing social, art and educational projects where people coming from different countries perform voluntary work. In organizing them, much emphasis has been put on making sure the volunteers see that their work is important, they help the organization as much as they can in order to be successful in the projects. The organization has been growing a lot in the cultural and artistic field and it is very important for the coordinators to understand the importance of developing a good job where motivation, active participation and altruism are the main values and pillars to achieve the goals of WF in such projects.   In the meantime, they themselves form a community and get in close contact with locals as well as with other participants of the project from different cultures and nationalities. They find out about each other's habits and ways of life, also getting an insight to the problems of the area and its inhabitants.

  

Profile of the organization:  Veraldarvinir, Worldwide Friends (WF), was founded in 2001 as a non-profit organization promoting nature and peace oriented activities for volunteers wanting to spend some time in Iceland. We also send local volunteers intending to have similar experiences abroad. WF aims at promoting active participation of people and its mobility, intercultural learning and voluntary service, through non-formal educational activities. The main activities offered are workcamps, seminars, local events and exchange programmes suitable both for young people and adults. For further information visit our website www.wf.is 

WF is a non-profit, non-governmental organization with international scope; we are associated members of the Alliance of European Voluntary Organizations, The Youth council of Iceland and The Icelandic Environment Association. We are also partners of Service Civil International (SCI)

Location: WF Iceland is working in different places all around the island. The volunteer will have the opportunity to see different parts of the island during the project.

 

Salary per month:  None.

 

Starting dates: The volunteers can start their projects in three different dates 05.05.2011, 05.06.2011 and 05.07.2011. The on-arrival training will start the next day after arrival.

 

Duration:  Three to six Months

 

Provides accommodation:  Yes

Pays for accommodation:  Yes

Food is provided: Yes

Local travels related to the project: arranged and paid for.

Int. travels: Not paid

Insurance: Third part liability insurance is provided but the volunteers are encouraged to arrange a medical insurance before coming to Iceland.

 

Desired Profile Course of studies:  Experienced or/and interested in photographing and visual arts in general. WF would like to host someone motivated to work for an NGO promoting environmental and peace oriented activities.

 

Linguistic skills:  English spoken and written needed. Other languages are seen as an advantage.

 

Technical skills:  Management of basic data processing packages as Microsoft Excel and Project Management, Word, Outlook and Explorer.

 

Skills and competencies:  Ability to organize on her/his own initiative. Time-management skills and ability to work under time pressure during high peaks of the season.

 

Extra fee: 150 euro which will be used to provide a good on arrival training.