Call for Volunteers: EVS Work Supervisor (based in Cebu) YSDA is implementing a European Volunteer Service under the Youth in Action Programme of the European Commission. The project in partnership with Euroaccion (Spain), HELPI (Hungary) and Semper Avanti (Poland) jointly implementing the project entitled Synergia. YSDA is hosting 14 volunteers from Spain, Hungary and Poland and 4 of them are assigned in Cebu City until May 27, 2015. They are currently assisting Cebu Plus an NGO support group run and organized by concerned individuals in Cebu to help, educate and support the people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV), their affected families (AF) and significant others (SO). A good supervisor is not born that way. Neither is an artist, nor a writer, nor a technician of any kind. A good supervisor gets good by study and practice--the more, the better. It does not follow that a good business person is also an expert supervisor--in fact, it is often just the reverse. Some of the real horror stories in volunteer organizations come from successful business people who try to supervise volunteers like they supervise employees. Volunteers are not employees and cannot be treated the same. Unfortunately, very few of us have actually studied supervision, although many of us practice it either on a small or large scale. But there is no question that most people can learn how to supervise, and that is what this discussion is all about. Supervision is of tremendous importance. With the right kind of supervision, an organization can become smooth-working, hard-hitting, high-producing, and filled with people who have a high morale (i.e., collective good feeling). Poor or indifferent supervision results in trouble all day long, inefficiency, snarls, low production, and, of course, low morale. Before we go on, lets define supervisor. We can distinguish between a boss and a leader. The boss drives people, uses authority, dominates everyone, and lets no one forget who is running things. The leader uses very little authority, leads people by example, works with them, and gets their good will. The boss gets production very frequently, in spite of hard feelings. The leader gets it too, but all feel good about it. The only kind of supervision in which we are interested is of the leadership kind. The role of the supervisor are: 1. Guide volunteers to develop and plan their activities and understand clearly what is expected of them; 2. Must provide guidance in their work (information, techniques enabling better work, coaching, and personality improvement suggestions); 3. Recognize their good work and provide constructive criticism 4. Encourage and inspire volunteer that they can accept greater responsibility to improve themselves; 5. Ensure work in a safe and healthy environment; 6. Initiate meeting with volunteers at least once/twice a week to discuss their progress and also provide language lesson (English/Cebuano/Tagalog). Start of Volunteer Service : December 1, 2014-May 30, 2015 Volunteer benefits and opportunities: In return, volunteers will: • Receive 2000 pesos (Mentor) and 3000 pesos (supervisor); • Reimbursement of local transportation and food expenses during meetings (subject to YSDA accounting procedures and guidelines); • Receive certificate of recognition of their valuable service; • Have the chance to share their local culture and allow European volunteers experience Filipino hospitality; • Have the chance to join YSDA trainings/meetings in the Philippines or abroad. How to Join? Send us your CV on or before November 20, 2014. Please do not wait on the deadline, we shall close the application process once the two volunteer positions are filled. You may send your CV at [email protected] or you may contact Ms. Elly Gragas, YSDA Project Officer: 0917-956-72-15 or through our office landline at +63 (2) 576-09-45.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 02:37:10 +0000
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