Description

As a volunteer coordinator at Casa do Caminho, you will have the following key responsibilities:
* Recruit, interview and correspond with new volunteers in English, Portuguese, and Spanish
* Assist with online marketing and development of social networks
* Welcome and help to integrate new volunteers
* Administration and coordination on site (update manuals, follow-up meetings, ensure a good communication flow between staff and volunteers)

Besides your key responsibilities new projects are always welcome to be set up! This position will also allow you significant 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

* Advanced Portuguese skills
* Willing to work within 6 months - 2 years volunteer period
* Strong organizational skills
* Degree or experience in program coordination and/or management
* Experience in working with children and teenagers

Languages

• Portuguese

Cost in US$:

0

Cost Includes:

• Food
• Housing

Program Fees Include:

Our program is free, you just need to pay for your own flights!

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

• Office Work
• Organizational Development
• Orphans
• Volunteer Management
• Volunteering

Typical Volunteer

Motivated, flexible and hard working people that are positive and can handle the limitations of our organization and a less developed country.

Age Range

21-40 yrs. old

This Program is open to

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

Typical Living Arrangements

• Group living
• Independent living

Participants Travel

Independently

Typically Participants Work

Independently or in Groups of 8

Application Process Involves

• Other
• Phone/Video Interview
• Written Application

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