About the project

This project is suitable for someone who is interested in both grassroots political activism, specifically related to local and international volunteering, active citizenship, social inclusion, and non-formal education for youth and adults. It is for someone who would like to improve their professional skills in social projects, group management, activity organisation and someone who is flexible and can easily adapt to different contexts.

 

Objectives

  • Including volunteers in an international dimension, to develop intercultural and linguistic skills;
  • Encouraging the acquisition of non-formal education tools and methodologies through concrete experiences;
  • Sharing and multiplying the values of SCI Italy, the network and the movement of Service Civil International (SCI): international solidarity and volunteering, social inclusion, peaceful conflict resolution, nonviolent communication;
  • Raising awareness on the importance of cooperation, partner involvement and systemic approach in the development and implementation of initiatives and projects.

 

Activities

Volunteers will be involved both in local and international activities, some of them funded by European programmes, some of them self-funded. Most of the activities follow non formal education methodologies. Topics can be various: environment, social inclusion, gender, migration, anti-fascism, etc. in a serious and professional work environment which follows at the same time informal attitudes in human relationships.

More specifically:

  • Processing workcamps applications of volunteers via SCI Online Placement System (OPS) on our database workcamps.sci.ngo.
  • Dealing with the management of volunteers through Erasmus+ projects in Italy and abroad.
  • Supporting relationships with partners organisation workcamps in Italy and abroad.
  • Supporting the process of workcamps’ evaluation.
  • Keeping relationships with volunteers in Italy and collecting info and materials about their experiences, supporting the creation of materials for communication.
  • Taking part and supporting the organisation of training for volunteers and coordinators.
  • Supporting the organisation and the realisation of public events related to volunteering and active citizenship.
  • Supporting the management of volunteers participating to social inclusion programmes and to long term and ESC programmes
  • Supporting the organisation and attending the activities of the Erasmus+ projects hosted.
  • Coordinating workcamps in La Città dell’Utopia and in other locations in Italy.
  • As SCI Italia is currently renovating its archives, the volunteers will dedicate some of their time to move files, select them and build a new archive anew. This is anyway a secondary task in comparison to the others described above.

 

Support “La Città dell’Utopia”

  • Helping in the planning and organisation of cultural events and workshops on active citizenship, especially in the levels of communication, logistics, and operation at “La Città dell’Utopia”.
  • Running a course for the neighbourhood (language, music, IT or any other skill) This could be part of your personal project – see below.

 

Personal project

  • Developing a personal project following the lines of the project and the hosting organisation is an important part of the project. The volunteer must be proactive in proposing a project and SCI Italia will provide support to implement it.
  • After the project finishes, the volunteers have the responsibility to organise events, as well as produce and spread materials about their experiences here.

 

Volunteers Profile

We are looking for volunteers who:

  • Have good command of English
  • Have good command of Italian (asset)
  • Be able to work in a team
  • Have good communication skills and motivation to cooperate with colleagues and SCI Italia’s activists
  • Have good educational and social skills, to be able to work with several target groups motivated to learn and share knowledge and skills
  • Have good computer skills (Ubuntu or Microsoft Office, email, internet)
  • Have a responsible attitude and take initiative towards their tasks
  • Have administrative and organisational skills, have an open mind and flexible attitude towards working hours, especially between May-July
  • Have a good level of adaptability to basic living and working conditions

 

Application procedure

Please send your application (CV and motivation letter in English) to esc@sci -italia.it

Apply as soon as possible.

For more information please contact: esc@sci-italia.it

Your motivation letter should answer the following questions:

  • Why did you choose SCI Italia and this particular project?
  • What do you expect to learn and experience during your ESC?
  • What can you bring to the work of SCI-Italy?
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