Candidates on 27 years and up are especially encouraged to apply as the already selected volunteers in the project will have this age.

If you would like to apply, please send your CV and a short motivation letter

Profile and tasks of the volunteers

Regardless of what individual project we will make for you, following are common for all EVS projects:

-          Jammerbugt Ungdomsskole is very focused on an EVS-project should give mutual benefits. This means that we are very flexible regarding the tasks and any special qualification, experience or knowledge will be taken as an advance and the tasks will be adjusted accordingly.

-          The volunteer should be a “Self-starter” and able to take initiatives. You will work together with our staff but we expect our volunteers to be independent and to create own activities. We are not looking for volunteers to routine-jobs but for volunteers that independently can give an added value to the organization and to the local community.

-          A good knowledge of English is necessary in order integrate in the organization and with the other volunteers.

Below are some ideas to what your project could consist of, please note that we are very open to see applications from profiles that we didn’t expected to see.

Volunteer to the international youth work

The international department permanently has one-two volunteers working.  

The tasks of the volunteers are normally to assist to:

-          Track and respond to call for partners/participants to exchanges all over Europe.

-          Communication with partners, preparation of participants and logistics before sending activities.

-          Development and implementation of international exchanges, trainings and workshops in Denmark

-          Coordination of the “youth leaders” (an group of young leaders for our exchanges)

The volunteer can beside of the task mention above get other tasks related with the international work and/or in other parts of the organizations ex. The youth clubs.

The more knowledge of and experience with “Youth in Action programme” the volunteer has the more challenging and exiting the work will be. Candidates with experiences in this field will therefore be prioritized.

Volunteers for the local youth clubs

Permanently at least one of the volunteers are working in the youth clubs. The tasks of the volunteer is normally:

-          To participate in the ongoing activities in the clubs

-          To initiate own activities but with point of departure in the interests of the children and youth.

The tasks are very mush depending of the interests of the volunteer. A volunteer with interest in art, could make some workshops or other activities with the young people while a volunteer with special interest in computers could organize a computer-game festival.

Beside of daily work in the club the EVS will together with one of the other volunteers develop an interactive session (ex. Social theater, role-play or similar) and conduct this with children and young people in schools, youth clubs etc.

Practical information:

Housing

The volunteers will be living in a small town called Brovst 40 km from Aalborg. The volunteer should be aware that the service is in rural district and that the hosting will be in a town with only 3000 inhabitants.

However there are bus connections to the city of Aalborg there with 122.000 inhabitants are the 4^rd largest city in Denmark.

There will be in total 5 volunteers in the organization. The volunteers are sharing two apartment in the center of Brovst only two minutes work from the office. The apartments has 4 and 3 rooms ,(one room for each volunteer and one shared living room in each apartment) and all modern facilities as dish-washer, washing machine, WiFi-internet, TV etc.

Danish classes

The volunteers are offered some Danish classes in the beginning of their stay. However the volunteers are expected to do a lot of self study and to work with Danish on their own.

Food

The volunteers are getting covered their expenses for food up to an amount of 1.500 Danish crowns (around 200€) per month per volunteer.

Normally the volunteers are deciding to make their food together.

Pocket money

The pocket money from the EC is transferred to the volunteers accounts in the beginning of each month. The lump-sum for pocket money is 140€ per month.