Call for Volunteers

WE ARE LOOKING FOR 1 EVS VOLUNTEER IN ISTANBUL – TURKEY FOR 1 YEAR

GENÇTUR-GENÇLİK TURİZMİ DERNEĞİ (EI Ref No: 2014-1-TR01-KA110-13501 / PIC No: 925425494), is a youth organisation based in Istanbul and founded 1979. The main working field of GENÇTUR is sending and hosting short, mid and long term volunteers such as EVS and international voluntary work camps.
For more details of our organisation please visit :
http://europa.eu/youth/volunteering/organisation/925425494_en
Task of the volunteers :

  1. Office work to inform Turkish candidate volunteers applying for EVS projects abroad, interviewing them and keeping their records in files.
  2. Placement of foreign volunteers in voluntary projects in Turkey, organized by GENÇTUR. Correspondance with their sending organisations.
  3. Assisting the EVS and work camp coordinators in other office works.
  4. Participating in or leading voluntary projects organized by GENÇTUR.
  5. Running conversation classes in different languages.

Start date : Every September     End date : By the end of August of the following year
The volunteer must be:

  • bilingual (English and Turkish or any other language. Turkish is not a must but preferred. Any other language is a plus)
  • communicative, talkative, smiling, patient, disciplined, punctual, encouraging and hard working
  • able to use Microsoft Office programs

Application dead-line : 15 April
Accommodation, food and pocket money will be supplied under the Erasmus+ Program EVS rules. The volunteer will share a house with another student and will have his/her own room. Kitchen, bathroom and the hall is shared.
Trainings : The volunteer will get an on arrival traing by the staff. Later on will participate in “On Arrival” and ” Mid Term Evaulation” trainings organized by the Turkish National Agency.

Interested candidates should send their CV with a picture, motivation letter and the support letter from their sending organisation to evs@genctur.org .