Clean Up the World

Mid-Term-Volunteer Placement Description:

Placement in the field: Administration, teaching, science

Number of placements: 2

Short description of the project:

The volunteer will work in our offices and in other places in Iceland managing the activities related to our Clean Up the World campaign 2015.

The main aim of the project is focused on cleaning the coastline of Iceland. Veraldarvinir organizes around 130 different work camps all over Iceland. There will be a team of long term volunteers and staff members responsible for coordinating and running clean-up actions on beaches with the support of the local communities who host the camps. The volunteer from the "Clean up the World" project are closely working together with the long-term volunteers we are hosting to lead the work camps.

The volunteer will act in the camps as an additional leader, who promotes the idea of the "Clean Up the World" philosophy. (Take a look at www.cleanuptheworld.org )

The coordinator will also organize an exhibition within this Clean up Event at the 3rd weekend of September showing pictures about volunteering in Iceland.

The coordinator will work under the supervision of the Director of the organization, who will give assistance to her/him.

· The Clean Up the World coordinator will organize the tasks of the volunteers and support them on a daily basis.

· Clean Up the World is meant to have its main event organized by Veraldarvinir in the 3rd weekend of September: the coordinator will take care of organizing it along with involved cooperating contacts. An essential task of the coordinator will in fact be to get in touch with these local partners as the media, governmental institutions, NGO's, international and national environmental organizations and local communities. In the development of this task it will be necessary for the coordinator to show independence and self-motivated working flow, even though the support of the organization will always be at his or her hand as a starting base from which to work for the frame of the Clean up The World themes.

· The Clean Up the World coordinator will also join some of our workcamps as a leader where he will manage a group of international volunteers for the period of two weeks.

· Veraldarvinir wants to involve children in secondary school in activities focused on environmental conservation and awareness. To do this, Veraldarvinir aims to involve children from all around the country in the Clean up the world weekend. The weekend will consist of a cleaning up day activity on a Friday, and then a weekend long conference on the cleaning up activity with the participation of interested people and learned specialists in the current field.

• Updating the website of the organization www.wf.is
• Coordinating and preparing the Clean Up the World section of the WF Newsletter.
• Updating our database on brochures/reports/trainings/seminars/others.
• Participating in fundraising activities related to the Clean Up activities.
• Preparing and distributing documents concerning the Clean Up activities.
• Be the contact person with Clean Up the World International.
• Working in the office, with computer and usual modern facilities.
• Visiting ongoing projects.
• Any other administrative tasks on the request of the general director.
• Additionally, for the time left, we try to add an extra dimension to the administrative work in finding new tasks, which are giving the intern a learning experience in a new area of work: e.g. helping to organize seminars, writing a grant application, etc. The exact tasks which can be agreed on depend on the interests and experience of the intern and on the actual needs and projects planned by the WF Iceland for that period.

Activities: Our primary activity is organizing environmental-related projects where people coming from different countries perform voluntary work. In organizing them, much emphasis has been put on making sure the volunteers see that their work is important, they help a community in need, or they work for the protection of the environment. In the meantime, they themselves form a community and get in close contact with locals as well as with other participants of the project from different cultures and nationalities. They find out about each other's habits and ways of life, also getting an insight to the problems of the area and its inhabitants.