Monday 22 October 2012

Internship in Iceland

GENERAL APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS
- Good English (Icelandic is NOT needed)
- Availability from the 20th of November 2012 (or even earlier) for AT LEAST 3 months
- Flexible attitude towards work and working hours
- Ability to work under stress
- Ability to adapt to a diverse typa of task
- Good computer skills (Microsoft Word and Excel, Gmail, etc.)
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Good organizational skills
- Proven interest in volunteering
- Ability to work independently and in a team
- Ability to manage your own workload

WHAT SEEDS OFFERS TO THE VOLUNTEER/INTERN

- Food and accommodation
- Pocket money of 70 euros per month
- Day-trips and excursions free of charge
- Free time to travel and opportunities to enjoy your stay in Iceland
- A varied, fulfilling job, although you will have to work under stress from time to time
- Possibility of partecipating or leading one or more camps
- Nice colleagues, a great atmosphere and a lot of support in your job
- Opportunity to be involved with SEEDS and to learn how an NGO works
- Being part of the SEEDS family

JOB DESCRIPTION

SEEDS Iceland is looking for a friendly and moivated Office Assistant, who will be mainly in charge of the new SEEDS website and the maintenance and improvement of the SEEDS volunteer management system. Therefore, you should bring experience in web programming. The SEEDS website has been renewed and the work needs to be continued.

MAIN TASKS

- Updating the SEEDS website (both designing and programming)
- Being the IT administrator for our SEEDS office ADDITIONAL TASKS
- Assisting with the coordination of logistics within SEEDS
- Representin SEEDS when interacting with volunteers and local contacts
- Helping in the maintance of the SEEDS accommodation and the office.
- Producing partecipation certificates and donation receipts for the volunteers
- Processing phone bills of the volunteers

SPECIFIC APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

- Very good command of English - Experience in IT
- Experience in website programming HOST ORGANISATION Founded in 2005, SEEDS Iceland is an Icelandic non-governmental, non-profit volunteer organisation designed to promote intercultural understanding, environmental protection and awareness through work on environmental, social and cultural projects within Iceland. SEEDS works closely with local communities, local authorities, individuals and other Icelandic associations both to develop projects in partnership, aimed at fulfilling an identified need, and to give vital assistance to established initiatives.

Projects are designed to be mutually beneficial to all involved: the volunteers, the local hosting communities and Iceland as a whole. Our projects in Iceland are supported by the local hosts and the volunteers participating in the project themselves; additionally we receive strong support for our long-term projects from the Youth in Action and Life Long Learning programmes of the European Commission.


Since 2005 SEEDS has hosted over 3000 international and local volunteers in our projects all around Iceland. In this time we increased our work with various environmental and conservation projects, we raised the number of projects related to culture, cultural activities, festivals & sports gatherings, and experimented with a number of new project concepts, including language and environmental education projects.


During 2011 we organised 100 projects located in every corner of Iceland; we hosted over 1000 international volunteers from 55 different countries, performing over 75.000 hours of valuable volunteer work. At the same time we sent 30 Icelanders to projects around the world. SEEDS enables volunteers to get to know Iceland from a different perspective, to meet the locals and have an insight into Icelandic culture, learn new skills, gain international understanding, make new friends all over the world, and give something back to the environment; thus, the mutual rewards for the volunteers, communities and ecosystems are massive.


We aim to empower, inform and expand the horizons of people of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds, to become aware of the world in which we live and to take an active role in its future development. SEEDS provides opportunities to live, learn, understand and experience, while sharing and cooperating with others from different cultures and backgrounds. SEEDS main activities relate to the promotion of environmental protection and awareness, intercultural understanding and peace, through the work on social, cultural and environmental projects in Iceland. SEEDS main objectives relate to the promotion of: - Cultural diversity and international understanding

- Cross-cultural exchange and cooperation
- Volunteerism and development of values and skills for global citizen cooperation and earth protection.

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