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YfD placements
Where will I be? What will I do?
VSO volunteers work in 34 countries around the World.
YfD placements are usually 12 months long starting between August-November depending on placement country.
VSO country programmes support local initiatives that address the causes and symptoms of disadvantage. In the countries where we work, VSO works with partners to develop placements that contribute to an overall country strategic plan.
All placements in the countries that VSO works are in line with these strategic priorities and volunteers are matched to placements on the basis of their skills and experiences. Whilst everything will be done to ensure that the personal preferences and interests of volunteers are taken into consideration when a placement match is identified, ultimately we respond to partner’s needs and therefore match volunteers to placement requests on the basis of skills.
All YfD placement support one of our development goals in the following six areas:
The work that individual volunteers will carry out depends upon the specific placement. There are a huge variety of placements available each year.
Here are some sample YfD placements:
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Deaf Rights Advocacy Trainer – Indonesia
The volunteer worked with 3 Disabled People’s Organizations (DPOs) whose membership are mostly young Deaf adolescents needing to be heard by the mainstream society. The volunteer worked closely with a core group of active members, sharing skills and helping to improve their advocacy work. Read the full description of the volunteer’s role:
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Deaf Rights Advocacy Trainer - Indonesia(pdf, 66.3kb)
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Business Development Adviser – Malawi
This placement needed a person with organisational development and management background, to work with “Rainbow” - a community based HIV&AIDS organisation working in a district in Northern Malawi. Read the full description of the volunteer’s role:
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Business development officer - Malawi(pdf, 36.8kb)
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Youth Development Adviser - Sierra Leone
This placement required a volunteer with a Youth Work qualification or equivalent experience, to live and work in a rural area of Sierra Leone to assist directly with encouraging youth participation in community development. Read the full description of the volunteer’s role:
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Youth Development Adviser - Sierra Leone(pdf, 73.8kb)
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English Teacher – Eritrea
This post required a creative and dynamic English teacher who was able to work with limited resources, committed to work hard and with a genuine interest in the well being of their students. Their time was split between teaching and providing some pastoral care of the school age students, and supporting local teachers to develop their English language and teaching methodology. Read the full description of the volunteer’s role:
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English teacher - Eritrea(pdf, 38.8kb)
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Fundraising and Staff Development Officer – Mongolia
Mongolian Education Alliance was seeking funds to maintain its services and activities, and in order to do this needed to gain knowledge and expertise on sustainable fundraising strategies. It required a volunteer with skills and experience to deliver staff development workshops, and an ability to stay balanced and calm when dealing with any unpredictable situations as they arose. Read the full description of the volunteer’s role:
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Fundraising and Staff Development Officer - Mongolia(pdf, 126.1kb)
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HIV and AIDS information adviser – Sierra Leone
This placement required a volunteer with experience of community development work, along with research and data management skills to work with Society for Women and AIDS in Africa Sierra Leone (SWAASL). The diversity of this organisation’s areas of interventions provoked a need for a strategic work plan for the following two years, and it was with this that the volunteer helped develop. Read the full description of the volunteer’s role:
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HIV & AIDS Information Adviser - Sierra Leone(pdf, 60.9kb)
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Web Publisher / Desktop Publisher – Vanuatu
The University of South Pacific in Vanuatu sought a volunteer to help with the development and upgrading of a web-site for its Community Legal Centre, which would ultimately lead to a better understanding of legal practises in the area. Read the full description of the volunteer’s role:
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Web Publisher - Vanuatu(pdf, 38.5kb)
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Documentation and Communication Officer – Bangladesh
The main aim of this placement was to help improve the documentation skills and build the capacity of the staff working for a local Bangladeshi NGO. The NGO was committed to promoting the socio-economic and cultural status of the remote rural poor, especially women, children and those with disabilities. Read the full description of the volunteer’s role:
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Documentation and Communication Officer - Bangaldesh(pdf, 55kb)
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Event Management Adviser – India
This placement required a volunteer to help plan a 10 year birthday celebration for the Positive Women’s Network which provides a national voice of women living with HIV and children infected and affected by HIV in India. The event involved coordinating a diverse set of organisations and individuals, and helped build upon the event management skills of their colleagues. Read the full description of the volunteer’s role:
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Event Management Adviser - India(pdf, 52.6kb)
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Advocacy + Campaigning Officer – Philippines
The volunteer helped to develop advocacy initiatives for a Philippine NGO which was established to unite all Persons With Disability (PWD). After spending seven years recruiting and mobilizing PWD groups from across the Philippines, it was at a point where it was ready to dedicate more organizational effort to advocacy, and wanted to recruit a YfD volunteer to help facilitate this activity. Read the full description of the volunteer’s role:
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Advocacy and campaigning officer - The Philippines(pdf, 50.3kb)
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