WHERE: Barcelona, Catalonia.

DURATION: 8 months

HOSTING ORGANISATION: Coordinadora d’Organitzadors de Camps de Treball Internacionals de Catalunya – COCAT

ABOUT THE PROJECT: the role of the volunteers who will participate in our ESC project will be to support the incoming, outgoing and the ESC areas.
It means one of the volunteers will be supporting the work that is done to host international volunteers (incoming), the other one will be supporting the work that is done to send national volunteers (outgoing), and the third one will be supporting the work in the ESC area fostering mobility and long-term voluntary service opportunities and helping its diffusion at local and international levels.
They also will be promoting an international voluntary service, producing informative material, participating in informative sessions, updating the web and the
social networks, and posts on our website.
They will manage administrative tasks and will work in a team in COCAT’s office in Barcelona.

TASKS AND ACTIVITIES:

• Give information to the volunteers that want to go abroad on a workcamp (picking-up the phone and answering emails).
• Placement and registration process by using our database and contacting international organizations.
• Promote international voluntary service.
• Organization of the informative sessions about workcamps and long-term projects to promote volunteering.
• Communication tasks like producing informative material in social media. The volunteers will update the web and the social networks, and publish posts on COCAT’s website.
• Organization of the post-camp annual volunteers meeting at the end of the work camp season.
• Help with the organization of the photography contest organized by COCAT at the end of the season.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Motivated by volunteering and who wishes to be involved in our organization and working in the field of inclusion and youth work.
• A lot of motivation to join the activity and pro-activity.
• Experience in volunteering.
• Strong motivation for youth voluntary projects.
• Good English level.
• Consciousness that the project will have a BIG ADMINISTRATIVE part.

WILL BE POSITIVELY VALUED:

• Having participated in a workcamp or in other international youth projects (youth exchanges, training, camp leaders…).
• Good Spanish knowledge.
• Willingness to learn Catalan and ability for foreign languages.
• Experience interest in communication and social media.

Interested? Check out the full [INFOSHEET HERE] for all the extra details. 

Want to apply? Application process during October.

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