URGENT 2 EVS VACANCIES FOR MALE PARTICIPANTS - EVS Diffusing ERASMUS + en Jaén

TWO EVS VACANCIES FOR MALE PARTICIPANTS FROM EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES IS OPEN URGENTLY!

If you are a volunteer interested to take part please send and email with the application form linked to erasmusplus@colectivogentes.es, any case you need have a sending organisation that we can provide to you.

EVS opportunity for 4 Volunteers during twelve months, starting activity period the 1st December 2015.

The main themes of the activity are European awareness and non formal learning methods, working in a multicultural youth centre (social inclusion) and thus promoting intercultural learning process and services to others (solidarity).
The volunteers will learn how to deal with young people from 14 to 30 years old.

The main objective is to give a volunteers and multicultural experience of working in group. Volunteer also are going to collaborate with the Andalusia Youth Institute because our office is in the same building and in fact we are doing all the promotional campaigns and DEOR activities of Erasmus + program with and for this public by.

The project aims:
1. to diffuse the results of the previous EVS project which is promoting Erasmus+ in Jaén in order to....;
2. to raise awareness among young people and youth workers about best youth mobility practices;
3. to create Volunteer’s Life Testimonials from previous mobility projects under ERASMUS+
4. to provide volunteers with an experience of multicultural and intercultural learning and European citizenship.

The main themes
-Erasmus + opportunities
- Non-formal education and active participation
-Cooperation between associations and public bodies in the province of Jaén and Europe

This project also aims to provide volunteers with an experience of Multicultural and intercultural learning and European citizenship knowledge. The main themes of the activity are European awareness and non formal learning methods, working in a multicultural youth centre (social inclusion) and thus promoting intercultural learning process and services to others (solidarity).

The main personal aim of the activity for the participants is to give a multicultural experience to the volunteer and future volunteers on EVS and to show how this can be developed in an international group process. (There will be also other international volunteers living and working with an EVS volunteer).

The project is open to and takes special account of young volunteers’ skills and talents, so that the time she/he spends with us will be effectively lived as an opportunity to grow up and to gain experience.

The volunteers are expected to work with other staff members, volunteers and youth workers to carry out the program for the children and young people.
He/she will work 35 hours per week, from 9:30 am until 13:30 am, then from 4:30 pm until 7:30 pm but it should be flexible according with the activities, and will have 10 days of holidays in December and 20 days free disposition.

Tasks to be performed by volunteers:
- To practice the planning, preparation, implementation and evaluation of visibility and DEOR strategies
- To prepare training session, workshops based on non-formal education learning methods in order to develop the tools and techniques of self assessment
- To organize social events with the aim to diffuse the previous volunteering experiences and the Erasmus+ projects in general
- To collect, create and represent life testimonials
- To make monthly newsletter and volunteer journal (for example including volunteers calendar, events, cooking recipes from different culture, volunteers Decalogue)
- To learn leadership and mentoring techniques in a non-formal education environment
- To continue cooperating with local public bodies in the province of Jaén.
- To implement Erasmus+ KA3 within the structure of the association Colectivo Gentes.
- To share and acknowledge the best practices and strategies of transformation which were of value to both EVS projects

The project is designed the way that every one of 4 volunteers will attend one of the four dimensions of the project.
Four dimensions required for implementing the project are:
-Communication in Spanish and English language.
-Encouraging the participation and visibility of the project and results.
-Impact on equal opportunities especially gender and disabilities.
-Training on values of coexistence and European dimension through learning based on non-formal education.

This way and thanks to these combinations the project will gain more integrity and harmony, and will conform to the priorities established by the programme Erasmus+. Volunteers will learn how to lead each of dimensions, how to lead others, how to evaluate the process, as a group and as an individuals.

About us:
The Social and Cultural Association called "GENTES" was founded in Jaén in May 2003, as a non-lucrative organization aimed to promote Implicative and participatory Methodologies as well as Social Volunteering and Civic Participation. In addition, it was our goal to promote better procedures for active participation at individual, group and community levels by organizational participation. This is possible through a dynamic and systematized teamwork, which improves the socio-cultural reality of the province of Jaén.

Our social practice work has included the following:
- Taking part in associations, platforms and social development projects.
- Participating in training and teaching processes, from formal to non-formal education, for active civic participation building common spaces.
GENTES usually leads projects with YOUNG PEOPLE of our territory. Those are medium term projects to work in several fields related to young life, such as environmental affairs, independence life, culture and free time, youth leadership, communications and new technologies, overland life, living abroad, the past- the present and the future, removing linguistics barriers, employment, etc. We will perform it with implicative methodologies and applying a common method based in non-formal education, exchange experiences, meetings with expert local actors and laugh-therapy. These projects are developed for small groups who work in teamwork showing the results obtained in public places and sharing them with the community.

FINANCIAL CONDITIONS

All volunteers will be hosted in EVS houses in the city centre (to share with other EVS) with all expenses covered. Financial condition according with KA1 - EVS Era+ Program EC.

SENDING COSTS

Sending organizations will get 40 euro per each month of service of the volunteer(s) they send. The volunteer will cover his/her own travel cost and it will be reimbursment after present the invoice and boarding pass.

How to apply
Organizations interested to send volunteers must provide the Application Form (you can download on the right part), CV and motivation letter are optional.