Volunteer in community engagment in Zambia

ActionAid Zambia is looking for a volunteer to support their programming for vulnerable groups such as women and youth including children, which aims at ensuring that their rights are protected. The volunteer will undertake a desk study to determine the effectiveness of AA Zambia’s engagement and the extent to which needs of youth and women have been addressed especially building their capacity in leadership, participation and resilience.

The volunteer will support the development and application of tools in relation to above noted capacity building needs and enhancing capacity for advocacy at community level. In addition, the volunteer will support the documentation of best practices and support knowledge sharing and learning processes.

The volunteer position is part of the EUAID Volunteer’s Initiative – an Initiative that brings volunteers and organisations together from different countries, providing practical support to humanitarian aid projects and contributing to strengthening local capacity and resilience of disaster-affected communities. A core focus is also to promote global solidarity and post-placement information work in Europe.

The placement period is 12 months, with duty station in the Northern Regional Hub office in Kasama, Zambia.

Volunteer Tasks

For the placement, the Volunteer will support localised disaster risk reduction in vulnerable communities by providing the following support:

• Desk study focusing on the needs to address enhance women and young people’s leadership and participation
• Support development of tools for effective engagement of women and young people in leadership, participation and resilience.
• Support identification of community champions in leadership and participation and Promote local volunteerism in disaster risk reduction, prevention and response
• Support with documentation tools and processes; ensuring documentation of best practices around women and young people participation and resilience.
• Participate in and contribute to relevant in-country and cross-country learning and knowledge sharing events and processes within the ActionAid Federation, such as the Youth Community of Interest
• Support communication and visibility of the EU AID Volunteer Initiative, also when back in Europe after deployment

Qualifications:

• Degree in development studies or similar,
• English proficiency,
• Experience working with desk study, action research, capacity building and development of toolkits
• Practical experience and understanding of community empowerment initiatives in relation to child protection
• 1 - 3 years understanding of the practical experience of the Human Rights Based Approach
• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines and tasks efficiently. Must be flexible and willing to perform other duties and work irregular hours
• Strong intercultural skills, respect of others and diplomatic skills
• Understanding and appreciating that this is a temporary position and thus strengthening the skills and competences of peers and colleagues is key in this placement
• Strong motivation to volunteer with a social justice organisation
• previous exposure to working in a developing context
• Prior volunteer experience is an added advantage

As this volunteer is placed under the EU AID Volunteer Initiative the volunteer must be a citizen of the EU or a third country national who is a long-term resident in an EU Member State and must have a minimum age of 18 years

Terms and condition will follow those of EU AID Volunteers:

• Monthly Subsistence Lump Sum of 424,33 € per month which intends to cover basic needs and local transport.
• Monthly post-deployment resettlement of 100 € per month
• Modest accommodation, Visa fees, insurance and airfare to and from the country of service
• 2 days leave per month of voluntary activity + domestic holidays in the country of service
• Work hours in accordance with ActionAid Zambia

Application and recruitment Process

To apply, the candidate should write a letter of motivation, fill out a Europass CV CV LINK and Self-Assessment Questionnaire SAQ LINK and upload all these documents to the application link below. If you have challenges uploading the Self-Assessment Questionnaire with your application, please send it separately to [email protected].

Application Deadline: August 22nd 2020

Shortlisting and interviews on SKYPE with the candidates: August/September

Selected candidates from interviews will be obligated to participate in an online training module as well as a 9-12 day in-presence training in Europe as part of the selection process. More than one candidate for each position will be selected for training to support the development of a pool of validated candidates – however only one candidate will eventually be selected for this position.

Travel and training costs to participate in the in-presence training will be covered.

Placement start is expected to be November 2020

Please, visit EACEA’s vacancy announcement page for more information and to see the full vacancy of this position. Here you will also be able to see other volunteer opportunities and read more about the EU AID Volunteer Initiative:

https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/echo/eu-aid-volunteers_en/