Biljana Vasilevska Trajkoska

Current occupation

Social / youth worker

Work experience

December 2016
Union for Youth Work / Youth Cultural Centre Bitola & NGO Kreaktiv
Expert
Drafting the standard for the national occupation standard for youth work

10-11 November 2016
Union for Youth Work / Youth Cultural Centre Bitola & NGO Kreaktiv, project: “Youth workers united”
Facilitator on experts meeting for setting up the national occupation standard for youth work

September 2016 – present
Union for Youth Work
Board member and head of the programming department

August 2016 – present
National Youth Council of Macedonia
Training coordinator
→ Coordination and capacity development of the NYCM’s pool of trainers
→ Educational advisor / NMSM’s non-formal educational activities
→ Supporting NMSM’s networking with different stakeholders

04 - 19 July 2016
Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Senior Trainer
Tranzit, seminar on youth work and youth policy practices in support of young people’s transition to autonomy and work life, European Youth Centre Budapest

25 May 2016
Youth Express Network & Rural Youth Europe
Expert
Study session – Dream it loud! Build an inclusive society for urban and rural youth at European Youth Centre Strasbourg
Input: Tools for improving young people’s access to social rights with particular focus on Council of Europe, Youth Department’s Enter project and Recommendation CM/Rec(2015)3 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the access of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods

Course director 2013 – 2016
Youth Social Rights Network in co-operation with the European Youth Centre Strasbourg, Youth Department of Council of Europe
→ Planning, organizing and implementing the activity
→ Dealing with EYC's administration
→ Work in collaboration with the educational advisor of the Youth Department of the Council of Europe

Activities:
In NEET of a coach! – Study session for youth workers on developing competences for providing one-on-one coaching to young people who are most at risk of becoming NEETs in order to reduce inequalities among young people and to ensure young people make a successful move from education into employment that way avoiding social and labour market exclusion held in European Youth Centre Strasbourg, 15 – 22 May 2016

Employability united! - an international meeting of young people, youth organizations/youth workers, local authorities and business sector representatives with a strong networking dimension on supporting young people in gaining autonomy and accessing employment held at European Youth Centre in Strasbourg, France 19 – 24 January 2015.

International meeting: Together for social rights - youth workers and local authorities promoting and networking for access to social rights for young people (particularly ones from disadvantaged neighbourhoods or ones facing disadvantage) held at European Youth Centre Strasbourg, 25 February - 2 March, 2013.

13 to 20 November 2015
Youth Express Network
Facilitator
Inclusion train Mobile Seminar & Evaluation meeting
Strasbourg, France & Brussels, Belgium

September 2014 – December 2014
NGO Media Artes, Macedonia
Junior Researcher
Creative work in post-communist countries

12 June 2014
The Current Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
Expert
Conference: It’s not just about consultation: How can local and regional authorities promote youth participation that leads to real change in society? Promoting active citizenship and engagement of young people through representative institutions and other means
Input : “How can local and regional authorities ensure all young people, in all their diversity, are involved in decision-making processes?”

13 – 15 November 2013
Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Documentalist
Seminar on the role of local youth participation for enhancing access to social rights for young people: Local youth participation and access to social rights for all young people in the framework of the ENTER! project
→ Coordinating and taking care of the documentation of the seminar
→ Drafting the report

2012- Present
Youth Social Rights Network - open informal network of individuals, private and public entities interested in or working on improvement of access to social rights of young people, inspiring and supporting the establishment of local partnerships and networks of different stakeholders that will work towards improvement of access to social rights of young people and support their successful transition to autonomy.
Founder/President
→ Organizational growth
→ Strategic planning
→ Capacity Building
→ Leading in conjunction with the Board;
→ Supervision of the implementation of the organization’s plans in accordance with its strategy;
→ Assessing principal risks and ensuring that these risks are being monitored and managed;
→ Ensuring effective internal controls, management information and internal systems are in place;
→ Representing the organization towards shareholders, employees, government authorities and the public;
→ Overseeing all executive decisions;
→ Planning, organizing and implementing activities

2010 – 2012
Centre for human rights AMOS, Bitola
Coordinator & HR Educational adviser
→ Coordinating project’s elements and activities;
→ Implementation of non-formal and Human Rights Education with accent on social rights of young people and HIV/AIDS prevention among young people in Bitola
→ Supervising, coordinating ,training and mentoring HR trainers and volunteers
→ Documentation and reporting

2008 – 2013
NGO Via Vita, Bitola
Social worker in Harm reduction programme with drug users
Improvement of access to social rights of drug users in the framework of the harm reduction program
→ Planning, organizing and implementing activities related with:
o promotion and protection of social rights for drug users
o human rights education with accent on right to health protection particularly related to:
 sexual and reproductive health,
 prevention of HIV/AIDS, HCV and other blood and sexually transmitted diseases
 counteracting discrimination and marginalization of drug users;
 advocacy and lobbying for improvement of access to social rights for drug users;
→ Planning, organizing and implementing long term training of trainers for peer education on social rights, drug use and HIV prevention;
→ Voluntary Counselling and Testing for HIV/AIDS and HCV with accent on field VCT for people with high risky behaviour (drug users, sex workers, MSM, prisoners etc.)
→ Initiating, coordinating and supporting the networking between drug users, their families, individuals and institutions in their local realities and other community resources that address different aspect of their problems and needs;
→ Individual and group therapy;
→ Support the rehabilitation and re-socialization of drug users
→ Mentoring and coaching
→ Administrative help and assistance in communication with different stakeholders
→ Consultation and conflict managements in client’s families;
→ Research, statistical analysis and interpretation of the results
→ Reporting
→ Office administration and supporting colleagues activities
→ PR

2005 - 2007
Hellenic Rescue Team in co-operation with Diagnostic center St. Kuzman and Damijan - Bittola
Project administrator, project - Prevention and early diagnosis of breast cancer
First phase:
→ Project administration and support of project activities;
→ Organization and management of the free medical exams for women;
→ Planning and organizing national and local seminars for women and medical professionals;
→ Planning, organizing and implementing trainings for women on social rights with accent on right to health, early diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer;
→ Organizing and managing the national campaign
→ Translation and PR

Second phase:
→ Project administration and support of project activities;
→ Planning, developments and coordination of info centre for breast cancer;
→ Organization and management of the free medical exams for women;
→ Planning and organizing national seminars for women and medical professionals;
→ Planning, organizing and implementing trainings for women on social rights with accent on right to health, early diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer;
→ Organizing and managing the national campaign
→ Translation and PR

2004
INFO/Droga/SIDA
SOS line operator – SOS line for prevention and harm reduction of drug use
- Informing and counselling young people and families on prevention and harm reduction of drug use
- Educating and supporting young professionals in working with young people at risk of becoming drug addicts or young drug addicts.