Description

We are looking for volunteers with a degree or experience in marketing, web design, and graphic design. You collaborate with our Director but also spend a significant amount of time working independently to design and carry out online and offline marketing initiatives.
* Promote Casa do Caminho online and through offline campaigns
* Promote sales of our organic farming products online and in the community
* Enhance Casa do Caminho's website and sub-sites
* Ensure Casa do Caminho maintains an active presence on social networks
* Conduct research and implement strategies to optimize our use of marketing techniques such as Google pay-per-click
* Update current volunteer placements on various websites
* Source new (free) websites to advertise volunteer placements

Besides your key responsibilities new projects are always welcome to be set up! This position will also allow you some time during the work week to engage with the children or assist with other projects, like giving a class in our Cultural Center, working in our organic garden, or doing maintenance.

Highlights

Working with Brazilian staff and international volunteers around the world towards ideal goals in a beautiful natural environment. It will be an intense period where you will have to be able to deal with the limitations of a third world country and an orphanage full with children that miss the basics in social and formal education. It is incredibly rewarding if you can make a difference to our program.

Qualifications

* Minimum age: 21 years
* Intermediate Portuguese skills
* 6 month - 2 year volunteer period
* Degree or experience in marketing

Languages

• Portuguese

Cost in US$:

No fees

Cost Includes:

• Food
• Housing

Program Fees Include:

We charge no fees and offer volunteers food and accommodation.

Salary/Pay

You receive food and accommodation and airport escort in exchange for your services.

Experience Required

yes

We expect from the volunteer that he/she has traveled internationally before and speaks at least intermediate Portuguese!

Volunteer Types

• Childcare/children
• Counseling
• Marketing
• Office Work
• Street Kids

Typical Volunteer

Enthusiastic, motivated, flexible, hard worker that loves to hang out with children and helps out where necessary. Patience is an important factor for working in Brazil.

Age Range

21+

This Program is open to

Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals.

Typical Living Arrangements

• Group living
• Dormitory

Participants Travel

Independently

Typically Participants Work

Independently or in Groups of 4

Application Process Involves

• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Phone/Video Interview

Typically The Application Process Time is

1 week

Comunidade Rural Casa do Caminho's Mission Statement

Casa do Caminho is an orphanage situated in a rural town near a rainforest, outside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Our mission is to help and take in children and adolescents in vulnerable social situations; to stimulate their development in fraternal cohabitation with nature while offering social, cultural, vocational, and sports programs; to promote the psychosocial restructurization of the family, and ultimately to facilitate the reintegration of this population into their families and society at the appropriate time.

Year Founded

1982