Do you have skills and time to offer Krizevac Project?

We are still recruiting for 2010!
Volunteering for Krizevac Project to support our projects and social-enterprises is a life changing and exciting opportunity. All of our volunteers are given pre-departure advice and a thorough in country induction and support throughout. Your home for the duration is the beautiful and peaceful ‘Mitsidi Volunteers Village’, about a 15 minute walk away from the main project sites, you will be well cared for with all meals provided in good quality and comfortable houses.

Please act now!
If you wish to apply for any of the current vacancies listed below, please send an email stating which post you are interested in and outlining why you are interested in volunteering for Krizevac Project, along with a CV detailing your skills and experience to info@krizevac.org or phone 0845 003 6004 for further details. All applicants will be contacted by telephone to discuss the next stages of the process.

Current Vacancies (updated December 2009):

Construction project opportunities:

Urgently required to undertake all aspects of management design and build of:
- a three storey reinforced concrete training block,
- a two storey reinforced concrete children’s centre,
- a two storey reinforced concrete administration building,
- two single storey factories (Hydraform and timber),
- a sports academy,
- a football pitch (levelling and excavation)
- commercial properties (including a vehicle dealership),
- Millenium Boulevard (road improvement scheme and residential development),
- drainage schemes,
- road construction.


Programme Manager – Chartered Civil Engineer
Duration: 12 months (January 2010 – December 2010)

Lead Designer – Chartered Structural Engineer
Duration: 12 months (January 2010 – December 2010)

3 x Project Managers/ Senior Site Foremen
Duration: 12 Months (January 2010- December 2010)

Offer for all construction posts: Flights, medical expenses, accommodation and food paid for by Krizevac
Full job descriptions available on request


Business Development, Training, Teaching and Children’s Centre Opportunities:


Experienced, dynamic and inspiration teachers needed- all subject areas
Start date- varies to coincide with term dates
Duration- 1school year
Offer: Flights, medical expenses, accommodation and food paid for by Krizevac, once the successful candidate has fund-raised a £1500 donation towards costs
St James Primary School in Chilomoni is keen to offer their teachers and students support and training in all areas of the curriculum. You will work as part of the team to teach some of the 1900 students aged between 5 and 16 years old. You will also help to identify staff training needs and use your experience to develop and deliver formal training as well as offering mentoring and informal support through role modelling alternative teaching styles. You will be an enthusiastic and dedicated teacher, capable of rising to the challenge of few facilities and up to 125 children in each class.


1 x Training Centre Business Manager
Start date: September 2010
Duration: 1 year
Offer: Flights, medical expenses, accommodation and food paid for by Krizevac, once the successful candidate has fund-raised a £1500 donation towards costs
The Beehive IT and Business Training Centre will be constructed by summer 2010. Prior to opening its doors to hundreds of hopeful graduates, we require an experienced manager who is able to design the curriculum, recruit and train a full support team. You will also recruit trainers and ensure that they have the resources they need to deliver a range of courses focusing on IT skills and business training. It will be essential to develop a sustainable business plan and train a future Business Manager to continue the role at the end of your stay.


1 x Information Technology Trainer of Trainers
Start date: September 2010
Duration: 1 year
Offer: Flights, medical expenses, accommodation and food paid for by Krizevac, once the successful candidate has fund-raised a £1500 donation towards costs
An experienced and enthusiastic IT trainer is needed to support a Malawian team of IT trainers to develop their skills in all curriculum areas. You will be able to inspire and transfer practical knowledge, so that local trainers can provide quality courses to adult learners. You will be formally training as well as mentoring and supporting through role modelling excellent training skills.

1 x Enterprise and Business Trainer of Trainers
Start date: September 2010
Duration: 1 year
Offer: Flights, medical expenses, accommodation and food paid for by Krizevac, once the successful candidate has fund-raised a £1500 donation towards costs
An experienced and enthusiastic Enterprise and Business trainer is needed to support a Malawian team of Business trainers to develop their skills in all curriculum areas. You will be able to inspire and transfer practical knowledge, so that local trainers can provide quality courses to adult learners. You will be formally training as well as mentoring and supporting through role modelling excellent training skills.


1 x Children’s Centre Manager
Start Date: January 2011
Duration: 1 year minimum
Offer: Flights, medical expenses, accommodation and food paid for by Krizevac, once the successful candidate has fund-raised a £1500 donation towards costs
The first ever Children’s Centre in Chilomoni will be opening its doors to hundreds of needy families at the end of 2010. As the centre will be based on the UK Sure Start model, offering full day care, family and health support; we require an experienced Children’s Centre Manager to oversee the opening and all operations, spending the first year training a Malawian replacement to fulfil the role on completion of this volunteering post. A thorough approach will be needed to establish all policies, recruit and manage staff and operate a budget. Experience of applying for and securing funding would also be of benefit.


2 x Childcare Trainers
Start Date: January 2011
Duration: 2 years
Offer: Flights, medical expenses, accommodation and food paid for by Krizevac, once the successful candidate has fund-raised a £1500 donation towards costs
Childcare workers will be crucial members of the team offering children the best start in life in the Chilomoni Children’s Centre, a typical childcare worker in Malawi currently has just two weeks of training before starting work. Krizevac Project would like to offer the very best training to current ad future childcare workers and so we require two trainers, able to write, adapt and deliver UK NVQ style training to suit a Malawian audience. It is expected that a minimum of 100 volunteers and workers will achieve the equivalent of an NVQ level 1 with a senior team achieving higher levels as a result of this volunteering placement. Suitable candidates will be expert and experience childcare trainers, with the ability to work flexibly to inspire.


1 x Child Protection Trainer
Start Date: January 2011
Duration: 1 year
Offer: Flights, medical expenses, accommodation and food paid for by Krizevac, once the successful candidate has fund-raised a £1500 donation towards costs
The safety and wellbeing of all the children in our care and in the wider community is paramount. We require a dedicated and experienced child protection trainer who will be responsible for interweaving preventative chid protection into all aspects of the children’s centre. This will involve liaising local agencies, designing and delivering child protection training and building capacity by training the trainers of the future.


1 x Children’s Centre Community Development Trainer
Start Date: January 2011
Duration: 1 year
Offer: Flights, medical expenses, accommodation and food paid for by Krizevac, once the successful candidate has fund-raised a £1500 donation towards costs
When the Children’s Centre opens at the end of 2010, community involvement and activity will form the life and soul of the centre. The successful candidate for this role will be a lively, enthusiastic, experienced community development worker, skilled in all aspects of participation. You will publicise and encourage involvement, set up family learning groups and activities and listen and respond to community need to ensure centre services are relevant. Experience of securing funding would also be an advantage. Throughout your stay you will be training a Malawian volunteer to undertake the role at the end of your stay.


1 x Children’s Centre Health Visitor
Start Date: January 2011
Duration: 1 year
Offer: Flights, medical expenses, accommodation and food paid for by Krizevac, once the successful candidate has fund-raised a £1500 donation towards costs
We require an experienced Health Visitor to lead the way on integrating all aspects of early year’s preventative healthcare into the Children’s Centre. You will be liaising with health professionals and government agencies to ensure there is a full range of services to keep children healthy available within the centre. Health rooms have been planned and you will be responsible for fine detailing the provision to support and extend existing services. This role will be immensely challenging but hugely rewarding with the potential to improve the health of generations of children.


1 x Children’s Centre Midwife
Start Date: January 2011
Duration: 1 year
Offer: Flights, medical expenses, accommodation and food paid for by Krizevac, once the successful candidate has fund-raised a £1500 donation towards costs
We require an experienced Midwife to lead the way on integrating all aspects of antenatal and postnatal healthcare into the Children’s Centre. You will be liaising with health professionals and government agencies to ensure there is a full range of services available within the centre. Health rooms have been planned and you will be responsible for fine detailing the provision to support and extend existing services. This role will be immensely challenging but hugely rewarding. Currently, 1 in 8 mothers die during childbirth in Malawi; our aim is create services that keep mothers and babies safe and healthy.


Further information on all these posts is available on request. Please also ask if you wish to view our volunteering policy and Malawi volunteer’s guide.

We support all of our volunteers to make the most of their Malawi experience, working in the ‘Warm Heart of Africa’ can be challenging but hugely rewarding, every day that you are there you will be helping to end poverty and create opportunities for a community that just needs a ‘hand up’ not a ‘hand out’

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Volunteer UK-
Our UK volunteers are just as essential as those who choose to go to Malawi. We are looking for:

Fundraisers
Drivers to collect equipment
Administrators
Home workers to run online auctions
School link volunteers


There is currently only one part-time member of staff in the UK, so volunteers are critical to enable us to continue our work. We are based in Staffordshire and seek committed individuals to work either from home, within local organisations such as schools and churches or from our base near Rugeley. We will offer you full induction, support and guidelines for working. Where volunteering puts you in contact with children or members of the public we will arrange for full CRB checks. We will ask about how much time you can commit and will work with you to ensure you enjoy and gain from your experience.


Please enquire online if you wish to become a UK volunteer





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