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Do I have enough experience?
Do I have enough experience?
We do require volunteers to have at least one year’s relevant paid or voluntary work experience. This could be composed of intensive short periods of time, or it may be a weekly commitment over a period of years.
Short-listed applicants participate in a competitive assessment procedure and are selected based on the following dimensions:
- positive and realistic commitment to volunteering
- commitment to learning
- practical problem solving ability
- flexibility and adaptability
- self-assurance
- working with others
- sensitivity to the needs of others.
Amy Merone, YfD volunteer in Nigeria 2006 – 2007:
"I felt very proud to have been accepted by VSO because there was a process that I went through that identified me as a suitable volunteer with enough skills to be of benefit to a community and organisation overseas."
If you are unsure if you meet this criteria please contact us at enquiry@vso.org.uk or +44 (0) 20 8780 7500.
What do we mean by relevant paid or voluntary work?
The type of work or voluntary experience we look for varies widely and depends on the requests that we receive from our partners overseas. Applicants will be short listed on the basis of the relevance of their skills and experience to current requests from our partners.
From past experience we know that the following skill areas are particularly useful to partner organisations:
- Advocacy and campaigning.
- Agriculture
- Business and financial management advisers.
- Community and non-formal education – especially using theatre, music and sport.
- Documentation and report writing.
- Event promotion and management.
- Experience of working in HIV & AIDS –particularly through peer education projects.
- Disability - especially through awareness raising, advocacy, peer education and promotion of rights based approaches
- Fundraising.
- Global education and global citizenship.
- Information and Communication Technology.
- Media skills.
- Micro-credit and micro-enterprise
- Natural resource management
- Newly qualified teachers.
- Preventative health
- Qualified English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers.
- Research.
- Youth work – especially through youth leadership and participation.
- Many more! For more information contact us!
What do volunteers actually do?
Check out these example placements.
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