Restless Development
Tanzania
Regent Plot 172,
Chwaku street
Mikocheni
Telephone: 0713
528986
Email: ally@restlessdevelopement.org
www.restlessdevelopment.org
VOLUNTEER PEER EDUCATORS
APPLICATION GUIDELINE
Do you want to be a Volunteer Peer Educator
in your university/college with Restless Development Tanzania?
Restless Development (www.restlessdevelopment.org is the leading global youth-led development agency whose mission is to place
young people at the forefront of change and development. We have been in
Tanzania since 1993; delivering rights based youth development
initiatives in rural and urban communities through peer-to-peer education led
by national and community volunteers. Presently, the focus of our work
is in sexual and reproductive health and rights, livelihoods and
employment, and civic participation across the Southern Highlands and excluded
areas of Dar Es Salaam and Dodoma.
Restless Development Tanzania
is recruiting enthusiastic and self-motivated young university students to be volunteer
peer educators in our Next Generation of Leaders program in Universities based
in Dar es Salaam and Dodoma. Selected volunteer peer educators will participate
in an intensive 5 days training designed to equip them with the skills and
knowledge to deliver the Next Generation of Leaders activities. You will work
part-time in your respective university/college for a period of 12 months engaging in-university/college youth health and HIV
prevention and leadership and career development activities.
What will it involve?
As an implementer of
the peer educator program, you will be trained for 5 days.
The aim of the
training will be:
·
To provide volunteers peer educator with information and knowledge relevant to
carrying out the peer and work assigned to them
·
To provide skills and methods necessary to
best deliver, monitor and evaluate the peer education activities.
·
To impact on your life through improvement in
knowledge and your personal behaviour change, life skills, career development,
livelihoods and entrepreneurship skills that will eventually enable you prepare
yourself for job market, self employment as well as enable you to take positive
control of your sexual and reproductive health.
Placement
12 months as a volunteer peer educator in your relevant
university/college
What will you do?
You will be based in the university/college leading the
implementation of the NGL activities with the support from the dean of the
students’ office. You will be expected to work with the existing
college/university structures including student government organizations,
groups, youth at risk, health workers and students on a daily basis. You will lead sessions on SRHR and Rights, Condom
demonstrations, Educational sessions on risky behaviours, youth employment and
livelihoods such as leadership, career development , outreach events.
Will you get paid?
To be accepted on the program, you must be
willing to be a VOLUNTEER.
What will Restless Development expect of you?
·
To work as a team and be collectively
accountable for all Restless Development activities in your college/University.
·
To abide by Restless Development value,
volunteer code of conduct, and all the policies governing Restless Development
volunteers.
·
To remain on the programme for the full 12
months.
What can you expect from Restless Development
Tanzania?
·
5 days of training as mentioned above. During
this period you will receive transport allowance as per prevailing rates, meals
and accommodation will be provided.
·
Restless Development will work closing with
the dean of students office to sensitise and prepare the university/college to
receive the volunteer peer educators and also support the implementation of the
programme.
·
Restless Development programme team will
conduct monthly support and supervision visits to all volunteer peer educators
in our university and college we are working.
·
You
will benefit from a career development session to build your capacity in
seeking for employment
·
A certificate will be provided at the end of
your service.
Selection criteria
- Age 18 – 28 years old
- Be a university or college student
- Having served as former Restless Development volunteer or any other youth led organization will be an added advantage.
Still interested?
You are required to complete an
application form and in the spaces provided demonstrate why you think you we
should be considered as a volunteer peer educator. The duly filled application
form should be returned to ally@restlessdevelopment.org
not later than Friday 23rd November, 2012.
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