Your role as a VSO volunteer
VSO is recruiting professionals from specific domains* and with specific professional skills which are needed and requested by its local partners in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America in order to work more effectively for specific vulerable categories. In each of these professional domains, VSO needs professionals with recent and relevant professional experience, relevant studies and specific professional skills.
*Types of VSO Volunteer Placements
In Romania, VSO is looking to recruit volunteers from among professionals in the following domains/skill areas:
Health Care
Social Development: NGO & Social Welfare Workers
Organisational Development & Business Management
Communications / Marketing
Information Technology
Education
Social Research
Natural Resources
Miscellaneous (external link)
Whether you come from a non-profit, public sector or business background, your skills could prove instrumental in helping disadvantaged people in the developing world. VSO volunteers work in over 40 developing countries, in a variety of roles/placements. Each of these placements fall under one of the six main development goals set out by VSO with its local partners in these countries, namely: Education, HIV and AIDS, Disability, Health, Secure Livelihoods, Participation & Governance. Just as all VSO volunteers working locally in different countries and different roles join efforts in a global development mission, all these goals work together in order to fight global poverty and disadvantage.
For example, as a volunteer working in a Management Adviser, a Volunteer Manager or a Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist role, you would be working towards achieving the PARTICIPATION & GOVERNANCE goal in those countries where VSO and its local partners identified this as being the main developmental need. The P&G goal aims to support the development of the governance systems, structures, policies and practice that empower disadvantaged people to participate in the decisions that affect their lives.
VSO volunteers placed in Fundraiser, Advocacy, Communication & Media roles help fulfill the HIV & AIDS goal, aimed at fighting stigma, supporting prevention and increasing the availability of treatment, care and support for those infected and affected by HIV and AIDS.
Physiotherapists, Social Work Managers, Audiologists, Optometrists, Speech Therapists or Social Researchers help carry out the DISABILITY goal. This goal is designed to support disabled people to participate as equal members of their families, communities and societies.
As a volunteer from a Health Care background, weather a Doctor, Nurse Teacher or Health Educator, you would be working towards the HEALTH development goal. This goal is set out to support disadvantaged people in fulfilling their rights to physical, mental and social wellbeing, and to offer good-quality essential services.
As a Primary Teacher, a Special Education Teacher, a School Manager or as a National Education Adviser, you would be working towards the EDUCATION goal. VSO's vision is that all children have access to good quality primary education. This includes ensuring the most disadvantaged – such as girls, those with disabilities, ethnic minorities and children affected by HIV and AIDS – are also able to go to school.
And last but not leats, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Specialists, as well as other Technical specialists work towards achieving the SECURE LIVELIHOODS goal, in order to strengthen the ability of disadvantaged people to make a living.
To read more about VSO's Development Goals please follow this link to the VSO UK website.
Important notes:
There is constant change in the volunteer demand and requirements, so please check www.vso.org.uk for the latest information! There may be other type of volunteer placements suitable for you, which are not currently listed on this web page.
You will not be applying for any of these jobs specifically, they have been listed here for sample purposes only.
