The Pastoral Diaconal Center Bijlmermeer Foundation and the African Missions Society are looking for a diaconal ecumenical center 'Stap Verder' in Amsterdam Zuidoost office hours employees

 

Short job description

Ensuring that people come into their own, starting from one half-day a week as a volunteer job with on-the-job training. Guiding asylum seekers, refugees, new Dutch citizens and established migrants in Dutch society. Ensure that they do not end up below a subsistence level, but that they can make well-informed choices for their lives and become participatory citizens. Creating a Digid, creating a CV, applying for a job, making payment arrangements, filling in forms, translating letters, explaining how the health care system, tax system, etc. works.

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Detailed job description

Consultation hours are an important part of our center in Amsterdam Zuidoost. Every day people come in with questions in all kinds of areas, with problems because they get stuck in regulations. Many visitors are still settling in the Netherlands. We offer them a warm welcome during consultation hours. We work together with Doctors of the World and refer to various fellow organizations and social institutions. Our visitors are in personal or financial need or are simply looking for information about housing, filling in forms, healthcare, tax system, work, paying bills, debts, etc. As a consultation hour employee you listen to their question and see how you can find a solution for problems, telephone, searches for information on the internet, etc. Experienced office hours staff will train you for at least three months.

Are you sober, yet involved, do you have common sense and do you like to help people by informing them and showing them how things work in the Netherlands, we are happy to train you further to become a social worker.

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What kind of knowledge or skills are needed?

• HBO/WO work and thinking level

• good communication skills

• sense of networking

• being able to work independently

• be able to act directive and subservient

• willing to gain experience with intercultural communication

• a listening attitude

• confidentiality

• good command of the computer

• flexibility and inventiveness

• reflectivity

• willingness to learn and the ability to collect and give feedback

• commitment of at least one year

• good command of the English and Dutch language, if possible other languages.

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What kind of training are you offered?

intercultural communication, nonviolent communication, conversation skills, social map, training on the job

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What do you get in return?

An internship/volunteer job for at least one year, with a probationary period, good and committed guidance, interest in your development as a person,  a committed board, coordinator and motivated fellow volunteers, challenging varied work in a multicultural district, training in intercultural communication (in pastoral care and diaconate).

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What is the added value of this volunteer work?

You are a source of information for people. That is rewarding work. With a bit of humor we deal with sometimes difficult situations that visitors find themselves in, so we have a lot of fun. You will gain insight into the lives of people in very different social strata and life situations and into the background of social and immigration policy.

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Working hours

Depending on your availability:

• on Monday or Friday a half-day consultation hour per week or every two weeks,

• but if you are available one day or more days a week, we are also very happy with that.

• Training takes place in consultation and

• once a month there is an evening consultation hour with employees, we eat together.
   

How do I qualify?

We would like to receive your letter of application and curriculum vitae by letter and/or email. Then we invite you for a tour and introductory meeting and meal with volunteers and visitors. Together we will see whether we are the right place and colleagues for you and whether you are the right person for this work for us

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More information: Erika Feenstra, coordinator tel. 020-8457566/06-17223372

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How to apply: We would like to receive your letter of application and curriculum vitae by letter and email attn. Erika Feenstra, coordinator, Hoogoord 187A 1102 CJ Amsterdam Zuidoost, erikafeenstra@stapverder.org