Vereinigung Junger Freiwilliger

WF MTV – 01

Project coordinator

Description:

Placement in the field:  Environmental Work / Group Management

 

Number of places: 8

 

Short description of the project/projects:  The volunteer will be involved in preparing, organising, running and evaluating cultural, 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 organisation 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, organise 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.

Please note that the trainings will take place in the following dates 10.02 – 13.02, 10.04 – 13.04, 10.05 – 13.05, 10.06 – 13.06 and 10.07 – 13.07

Once the season to working on 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 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 organisation:  Veraldarvinir, Worldwide Friends (WF), was founded in 2001 as a non-profit organisation 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 organisation with international scope; we are associated members of the Alliance of European Voluntary Organisations and partners of Service Civil International (SCI) and Youth Action for Peace (YAP).

Location: WF Iceland is working in different places all around the island. It will be agreement between the volunteer and the organization where he/she will be located during the stay in Iceland.

 

Salary per month:  None.

 

Starting dates: At the earliest: 01.01.2010. At the latest:  01.07.2010

Duration:  Two to ten months

 

Further support from the organisation:

 

Provides accommodation:  Yes

Pays for accommodation:  Yes

Food is provided: Yes

Local travels: paid

Int. travels: Not paid

Insurance: paid and taken care of.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WF MTV 02

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 organisation:  Veraldarvinir, Worldwide Friends (WF), was founded in 2001 as a non-profit organisation 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 organisation with international scope; we are associated members of the Alliance of European Voluntary Organisations and partners of Service Civil International (SCI) and Youth Action for Peace (YAP).

Location: The volunteer will be located in Reykjavik but will have the opportunity to see the whole island.

 

Salary per month:  None.

 

Starting dates: At the earliest: 15.03.2010. At the latest:  01.07.2010

Duration:  Two to six months

 

Further support from the organisation:

 

Provides accommodation:  Yes

Pays for accommodation:  Yes

Food is provided: Yes

Local travels: paid

Int. travels: Not paid

Insurance: paid and taken care of.

 

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 03

Project coordinator in the East Fjords

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, organising, running and evaluating cultural, 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, she/he 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 obtain practical information about planning a project, spare time activities, first aid, etc.

Please note that the trainings will take place in the following dates 10.02 – 13.02, 10.04 – 13.04, 10.05 – 13.05, 10.06 – 13.06 and 10.07 – 13.07

 

Once the busy workcamp season begins, the work will mainly consist of supervising and developing the projects, coordinating groups of 8 to 15 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 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 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 into 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 programs suitable both for young people and adults. For further information visit our website www.wf.is 

Location: The workcamp coordinator will be located most of the time in the Icelandic East Fjords where he/she will coordinate and lead several workcamps in different villages. In addition WF offers the possibility to also lead one camp in Reykjavik and one in another part of Iceland. This chance to travel and to see more of the beautiful country is preferable scheduled at the end of the stay.

 

Starting dates: At the earliest: 01.04.2010. At the latest:  01.06.2010

Duration:  two to six months

 

Salary per month:  None.

 

Further support from the organization:

 

Provides accommodation:  Yes

Pays for accommodation:  Yes

Food is provided: Yes 

Local travels: paid

Int. travels: Not paid

Insurance: paid and taken care of.

 

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

 

Linguistic skills:  A good level of 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:  Applicants must have a good ability to organize on her/his own initiative as well as good communication skills, time-management skills and the ability to work under time pressure during high peaks of the season.

Applicants with experiences in volunteering, social/environmental projects management, group leading and/or conflict management are highly encouraged to apply for this position.

 

 

WF MTV 06

Clean Up the World coordinator

 

Description:

 

Placement in the field:  Administration & Social work/Educational theory

 

Number of places: 1

 

Short description of the project/projects:  The volunteer will work in our offices and in other places in Iceland managing the activities related to our Clean Up the World campaign 2010.

 

The main aim of the project is focused on cleaning the coastline of Iceland. Veraldarvinir organizes around 110 different work camps all over Iceland during the year 2010 with 1.000 up to 1.200 international volunteers involved. There will be a team of long term volunteers and staff members responsible for coordinating and running clean-up actions on beaches with the support of the local communities who host the camps. The Intern from the "Clean up the World" project are closely working together with the long-term volunteers we are hosting to lead the work camps.

 

The volunteer will act in the camps as an additional leader, who promotes the idea of the "Clean Up the World" philosophy. (Take a look at www.cleanuptheworld.org )

 

The coordinator will also organize an exhibition within this Clean up Event at the 3rd weekend of September showing pictures about volunteering in Iceland.

 

The coordinator will work under the supervision of the Director of the organization, who will give assistance to her/him.

 

Work/Description of the work:

 

• The Clean Up the World coordinator will organize the tasks of the volunteers and support them on a daily basis.
• Clean Up the World is meant to have its main event organized by Veraldarvinir in the 3rd weekend of September: the coordinator will take care of organizing it along with involved cooperating contacts. An essential task of the coordinator will in fact be to get in touch with these local partners as the media, governmental institutions, NGO's, international and national environmental organizations and local communities. In the development of this task it will be necessary for the coordinator to show independence and self motivated working flow, even though the support of the organization will always be at his or her hand as a starting base from which to work for the frame of the Clean up The World themes.
• The Clean Up the World coordinator will also join some of our workcamps as a leader where he will manage a group of international volunteers for the period of two weeks.
• Veraldarvinir wants to involve children in secondary school in activities focused on environmental conservation and awareness. To do this, Veraldarvinir aims to involve children from all around the country in the Clean up the world weekend. The weekend will consist of a cleaning up day activity on a Friday, and then a weekend long conference on the cleaning up activity with the participation of interested people and learned specialists in the current field.

• Updating the website of the organization www.wf.is
• Coordinating and preparing the Clean Up the World section of the WF Newsletter.
• Updating our database on brochures/reports/trainings/seminars/others.
• Participating in fundraising activities related to the Clean Up activities.
• Preparing and distributing documents concerning the Clean Up activities.
• Be the contact person with Clean Up the World International.
• Working in the office, with computer and usual modern facilities.
• Visiting ongoing projects.
• Any other administrative tasks on the request of the general director.
• Additionally, for the time left, we try to add an extra dimension to the administrative work in finding new tasks, which are giving the intern a learning experience in a new area of work: e.g. helping to organize seminars, writing a grant application, etc. The exact tasks which can be agreed on depend on the interests and experience of the intern and on the actual needs and projects planned by the WF Iceland for that period.

 

 

Profile of the organisation:  Veraldarvinir, Worldwide Friends (WF), was founded in 2001 as a non-profit organisation 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 organisation with international scope; we are members of the Alliance of European Voluntary Organisations and partners of Service Civil International (SCI) and Youth Action for Peace (YAP).

 

Activities: Our primary activity is organising 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.

 

Location: WF Iceland is working in different places all around the island and we have offices in three different places. It will be agreement between the Intern and the organization where he will be located during his stay in Iceland.

 

Salary per month:  None.

 

Starting dates: At the earliest:  01.02.2010 At the latest:  01.04.2010

Duration:  Min. 3 months, max. 12.

 

Working hours: Working days from 09.00 – 12.00 and 13.00 – 17.00

 

Further support from the organisation:

Provides accommodation:  Yes

Pays for accommodation:  Yes

Food is provided: Partly

Local travels: paid

Int. travels: Not paid

Insurance: paid and taken care of.

 

Desired Student Profile Course of studies:  Particular field of studies or defined subjects are not set, but preferably out of the sector Public Relations / Organizational Communication. 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: 

·        Interest in WF Iceland and the work we perform.

·        Able to work in a multicultural environment Social skills and being able to integrate in a multicultural team

·        Ability to organize her/himself, own initiative.

·        Time-management skills.

·        Ability to work under time pressure during high peaks of the season and to use it effectively during the quiet periods.

·        Flexibility and enthusiasm.