Organization Overview
VSO is the world's leading development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty. We are unique in the way we bring people together to share their skills and experience, generate insights and ideas and, most of all, take action against poverty and exclusion. It's a highly effective approach that works, and today is helping millions of people in some of the world's poorest communities lift themselves out of poverty.
Role overview
The International Resilience Volunteer will closely work with VSO programme teams and partners to strengthen and mainstream VSO’s approach to resilience.
The Ideal candidate will carry out pilot risk and capacity assessments among communities and partner organisations in order to contribute towards building preparedness plans. This would involve training partner organisations and community representatives in understanding the different concepts of resilience, carrying out assessments, and engaging in discussions regarding perceptions of risks and preparedness to build on the importance of resilience.
Skills, qualifications, and experience
Qualifications (essential):
- Bachelor’s degree in development studies, social work, or other related fields.
- At least one year experience in working with or mobilising communities, grass-roots workers.
- Good understanding of linkages between disasters, other shocks such as conflicts, and development in the Tanzanian context
- Tanzanian, fluent in Swahili as well as fluency in English
Desirable
- Field experience or have actively participated in humanitarian action projects, ideally international or developmental
NOTE: ITS NATIONAL VOLUNTEER ROLE, NOT NON TANZANIANS.
Allowance
As a VSO volunteer, you will be sharing your skills with local communities on a full time basis. VSO will cover your travel, vaccinations, accommodation, and medical insurance costs, along with a local living allowance which will be paid in local currency. This allowance meets reasonable living expenses in country, but will not be enough to send money home. You will also receive some financial support to contribute to your on-going expenses at home.
Accommodation
VSO works with some of the poorest communities in the world which means accommodation varies and will be basic.
