ESC @ Waldorf School in after-school care (2 Volunteers needed - 12 months)

Description:

The Free Rudolf Steiner School Leipzig was founded in 1990 and accommodates about 350 students. The Rudolf Steiner School leads students from grade 1 to grade 13. The ESC will be in the e day nursery, which is associated with the school. The Rudolf Steiner pedagogy pursues a holistic approach within children's mental and intellectual education. The curriculum is structured by the pupils' stages of development and aims at supporting and developing intellectual, mental and physical skills appropriate for the respective age. The day nursery offers a mentoring program in the afternoon for grades 1-4 (6 – 10 years). The staff of the Free Rudolf Steiner school consists of around 50 members. Two members are directly involved in the project. Moreover, there are between 50 and 100 adult voluntary helpers working at the school.

Tasks:

The volunteer will mainly be active in the day nursery (grades 1-4 / 6-10 years) to support the staff during the lunch times and the afternoon activities (games, special projects). According to the interests of the volunteer, he/she may also carry through special creative projects with the kids (singing, dancing…). The volunteer shall present aspects of his or her own country, e.g. music, language, games, handicraft or cooking. The volunteer´s own ideas can be realized in every-day work during the afternoons as well as in various projects, parties etc. The volunteer also has the chance to develop an own project during the year. The opportunities for children and teenagers to acquire intercultural competence are scarce in the East of Germany. Thus, the Waldorf nursery sees a volunteer as a huge enrichment! Being a self-administrative community with the support of 240 families, we are open to any kind of integration for the volunteer. The volunteer can take part in a language course.

Conditions (short overview):

• The volunteer has a mentor, who supports with regular feedback talks at the hosting organization
• The weekly project time is 35 hours and weekends are free, as well as holidays such as Christmas, etc.
• The volunteer has two holidays per month, which can be collected to take a longer time off (Some facilities have closing times and then some vacation must be taken then.)
• There is a basic language course to support the volunteers in the beginning. The ESC is a non-formal education program and therefore no professional German course is provided, but the goal is to learn the language during the project time and outside in the free time.
• Costs for food, travel and insurances are covered, and the volunteer gets additionally 210€ pocket money per month; VISA costs are covered if needed.
• The volunteer has to visit two seminars organized by Jugend für Europa (national agency of Germany). In addition, there will be realized several project days towards topics of Europe / mobility in Europe for all ESC volunteers.
• The volunteer lives in a single-bed room in a flat share with other volunteers in Leipzig. In the shared apartment, residents must take care of cleaning themselves.

Selection process:

Please complete the online questionnaire you find on our page. We collect all applications until the deadline, then all applications that are complete will be forwarded to the responsibles of the Waldorf nursery who decide about the candidate. The selection process takes about 1 month. You will get an answer during or latest after 2 months.

Selection criteria:

• Interest in working with children
• open-mindedness, own ideas, autonomy
• We are little focussed on specific selection criteria, having a great potential of integration.
• Measles vaccination is mandatory!

Apply here!