General Teaching and Youth Work Position
Location
Samos
Minimum Commitment
6 weeks
Type of Position
Volunteer Opportunity
Start date
Immediately
About the position
Join our teams on Samos in the Banana House, a vibrant and creative centre for refugee youth. Engage with students and help direct high-quality classes in languages and other subjects. Provide psychosocial support, facilitate activities, and create a welcoming, safe spaces for all our students.
Requirements
Key responsibilities of the job include:
Providing support to children and adults in their development of the English language
Helping to develop programmes of learning activities and adapting appropriate materials
Provide social support including creating an environment to build the confidence, resilience and self-esteem of participants
Motivating and encouraging pupils
Attending regular planning meetings
Facilitating the Youth Centre kitchen, working with a team of teenagers in cooking a meal and providing social support when needed
Attending fortnightly trainings
Reporting any child or adult protection concerns
Remaining flexible based on the project needs
Cleaning of the spaces twice a day along with the rest of the volunteer team
Working fairly with mixed ages, nationalities and genders
Your set of skills:
Experience in teaching, ESL, social work, youth work, or project-based activities
An awareness of migration issues and sensitivity to working with vulnerable communities
You share our vision of a world in which everyone has equal chances to education.
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Multi-tasker who performs well under pressure.
Willing to give long hours in a variety of roles and tasks
About the organisation
Action for Education is an independent, grassroots organisation founded in the UK and Greece in 2017. We develop and support projects that aim to remove the barriers to education for displaced communities. In early 2019, we launched a Youth Centre project on Samos as an emergency response to the desperate condition of refugees on the island – a critical bottleneck on the road of flight to Europe.
AFE pursues two main goals with this project:
First, we offer an essential safe space to the children and youth, in which they can rediscover a piece of childhood. Careful guidance in learning, playing and communal activities build resilience and develop peace-building mechanisms, an opportunity they are ill-afforded in the harsh, tense and frequently violent conditions in the camps.
Second, we help students develop language and concentration as well as motor and cognitive skills through curricula of English, languages and projects, which also stimulate imagination and let students and participants explore their own interests, old and new.
Location
Samos