Youth Council of Gazi Baba is announcing free EVS places for the 1st of September deadline.
We need EVS volunteers on 6, 9 or 12 moths.

More info on:

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_form_en.cfm?EID=66000065801

We are looking for volunteers that are talking good English and which are open to integrate in new culture and are, specially volunteers which like to work with children and Youth.

Tasks

Proposed activities for international volunteers
" Please summarise the motivation of your organisation to host international volunteers.
" Describe what you can offer to volunteers in terms of service and learning opportunities. Explain what will be the role of international volunteers in the host organisation.
" Describe the activities in which the volunteers could be involved and the activities the volunteers could create in your organisation. Give examples of typical activities for the volunteers.
We got information about the possibilities of YOUTH program last year on the info day for the YOUTH program. It was organized by Youth Forum EYE and took place in Skopje. There we got interested in hosting EVS volunteer that could work with us on our projects.
We have talked to some of the EVS volunteers in order to get more inside information about their work, living conditions and etc. In January, on the meeting of the board of our organization, we decided to apply for EVS project.
Our motivation was that EVS volunteer will help a lot in finding more information for possibilities for young people abroad. Moreover, having EVS volunteer will hep us to boost motivation of our local volunteers and for the project "Youth Info Centre - Connected YOUTH".
That is why we applied for it and in August we got our first EVS volunteer from Poland.

Youth Council of Gazi Baba can offer a lot of learning opportunities for the volunteer. Upon arrival, there will be an introduction to Youth Council of Gazi Baba, where the volunteer will be made familiar with the premises and facilities of Youth Council of Gazi Baba, as well as introduced to the staff. In the second step, he/she will get more insight in the functioning of each work area, the related project details and get to know the staff persons that are in charge of the implementation.
During the first months the volunteer will be learning more about the work and getting new skills, so as to be able to work on the project. He/she will receive general information about Macedonia and will take an intensive Macedonian language course (3 times per week).
The volunteer will be also informed about the Town of Skopje and Municipality of Gazi Baba. It is very important to underline that we will have meetings with the volunteers during the first months on which we will try to present the situation of the National Strategy for Young people in Macedonia and the possible role of our organization and Municipality in this strategy. Cooperation between NGOs and Municipalities is of great importance, as the volunteer will be working in some projects together with the Municipality of Gazi Baba.
Information about ICL and Ethnicities in Macedonia will also be presented to the volunteer. With this, we will help the volunteer to realise the differences and possibilities that she/he will have in the work with young people from various nationalities and religions.
The volunteer will have a supervisor in the project that will be responsible for coordination of projects activities. Additionally, the volunteer will have a mentor, a person who is not directly included in the activities of the Youth Council of Gazi Baba.
The volunteer will be introduced to the local community that she/he will be working with, because in any kind of youth work in this area it is very important to know the local surrounding and the people.
The volunteer will have on-arrival training after coming to Macedonia, on which the professional information on the rights, responsibilities, ICL, crisis management and etc will be provided. This training will be carried out by international trainers and together with at least 5 other EVS volunteers in Macedonia.
The volunteer will receive full training needed for him/her to conduct a given tasks. The volunteer will not be left alone to perform his work.
The general structure of work of the volunteer will be as follows:
The first month will be more of an introductory period. Within this time, the on-arrival training for the volunteer will be organised. Also, in this period, she/he will attend intensive Macedonian course in order to feel more comfortable in the local community. There will be regular meetings with the volunteer on which we will try to provide some training and guidelines. We will try to transfer a lot of know-how for the project work to the volunteer in the first months. Also the concrete work on the project will start with the lower intensity during the first month.
The supervisor of the project will present the work of the office and its daily activities. She/he will also give more info on how the volunteer can gather data that can be used by young people in Municipality of Gazi Baba.

Tasks of the volunteers will be divided in sections as followed (depending on the level of importance in some periods of the EVS, one task can be given priority):

Information searching (25% of the time):
Volunteer, together with at least one more person from our organization, will be working on finding information about possibilities for young people. This information will be structured in topics as short term volunteering, working camps, long term volunteering, national and international internships, non-formal learning seminars, trainings, self employment possibilities, study in Macedonia, study abroad, possibilities that state is offering to young people trough Agency of Youth and Sports and Ministry of Education, sports activities, Municipal actions and possibilities for youth cooperating with Municipality and etc.

Preparation of promotional materials (20% of the time):
The volunteer, together with responsible person from the office, will work on the preparation of promotional materials and local presentation.

Presentation in front of the young local people (20% of the time):
Here we will be making presentations in schools, universities and in other youth centres. We will try to get this information as close as possible to the young people.

Creation of e-news letter (15% of the time):
On the presentations we will make applications for those young people who would like to get more information about certain issues. We will then make a mailing list on which we are going to provide regular news about possibilities.

Direct assistance to young people (10% of the time):
In this section, we will try to provide assistance for the young people, who come to the info centre, concerning applying for some open volunteers' placement, study possibility, seminar or etc. Here we will be able to help the young people to prepare CV, teach them what motivation letters, cover letters are, etc.

Possibility for own project of the volunteer (10% of the time):
The volunteer will have a possibility to create and implement her/his own project. The EVS will have assistance of the supervisor, the director and other people in the organization then.

The volunteer will work from Monday - Friday approximately 30 hours. Usual working hours are from 10:00 till 16:00.
The volunteer will have regular Macedonian classes 3 times per week.
She/he will be getting additional money for food.
She/he will be leaving together with other volunteers in a flat equipped with kitchen.