VSO volunteer professionals

EMPOWER OTHERS, DEVELOP YOURSELF, AND REACH OUT FOR A BETTER WORLD... BE
VSO VOLUNTEER!

Do you have the skills, the heart and the will to share and make history?

Many people all over the world experience all kinds of disadvantages ---poverty, poor health, lack of food and clean water, disability, unequal access to natural resources and inability to participate in society-----you name it! For over 50 years VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas), the world’s leading independent international development organization that works through volunteer professionals, has been working to reduce these disadvantages and fight poverty. You could have a role in making the world a better place. By sharing your skills you will be making a big difference.
You will also gain new skills and have a unique global experience to help you be a better person. What’s more you will also make history as one of the first VSO volunteer professionals from Indonesia to work in another country!!

VSO Indonesia and Dirjen Binapenta Departemen Tenaga Kerja dan Transmigrasi RI, will conduct a pilot project to recruit 5 Indonesian professionals who will each be placed in one of the 42 developing countries where VSO operates and work as international volunteers in partnership with a local organisation. This pilot project will be managed by VSO Indonesia and the VSO federation member VSO Bahaginan from the Philippines.


Qualifications:

• Between 25 to 65 years old
• Fluent in English (written and oral) and willing to learn other languages
• Minimum 3 years’ solid experience in one area of expertise
• Has formal university degree
• Physically and mentally fit
• Can live and work in a developing country for up to 2 years
• Can live on a modest living allowance
• Able to go abroad between November 2010 and March 2011

Priority area of expertise:

• Agriculture (including agribusiness for small scale upland, agricultural economics, livestock/poultry, forestry, ecotourism development),
• Small business (especially micro-credit),
• Business and management (M&E management, organisational and change management, volunteer management), IT.

For more information and to download the application form please visit VSO Bahaginan website http://www.vsobahaginan.org.ph/volunteer

Deadline for application 3 September 2010

For any queries please send email to Indonesia.volunteering@vsoint.org or call 0852 3700 2588 Tuesday-Friday between 10-12am WITA or 3-5pm WITA.