Project details

• Number of volunteers: 1
• Duration: October to September (changes possible)
• Topics: Youth (Youth Work, Participation, Youth Policy, Street Work, Events, Workshops, Excursions, Projects), Children (Work in Residential Complexes, Kidscafé), Creativity and Culture
• Hosting Organisation: Offene Jugendarbeit Hohenems, Hohenems, Austria
• Supporting/Coordination organisation: aha – Jugendinformationszentrum Vorarlberg Dornbirn, Austria

Young people are not only accompanied for many years by open youth work in a decisive phase of life in which educational and life skills are formed but also empowered and supported in their individuality. The essential goals are the relationship work with young people as well as participation activities and there is always space to get involved.

Open youth work in Hohenems is part of an existing network that is constantly growing. In addition, open youth work accompanies and mediates the cooperation between young people and system partners on behalf of the young ones. The Hohenems open youth work team supports and accompanies the young people in all matters, professionally and competently.

There are specific counselling aspects of social work, for example work in residential complexes, free of charge coaching for job applications as well as free learning support, digital youth work, KidsCafé, social work projects, workshops for large and small projects such as holiday programmes, school workshops, prevention of bullying and cyberbullying, cooperation projects as well as cooperation events, intergenerational events and much more.

Front office: Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2 p.m.to 6 p.m. as well as Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. The backoffice can be reached from Tuesday to Friday.

There is always a big team meeting at the end of the month. In between, we do stand-up meetings that usually last half an hour. In general, we attach great importance to working together as a team. Regular team building activities underline this.

S*he will primarily support us in our work in the youth centres. S*he can also get to know all of our areas (including working with children). Another part of his*her work are the various projects with a focus on sport, education, creativity and culture. At the same time, the volunteer can also organise his*her own projects and contribute his*her own talents.

The main tasks will be working in the youth centre/youth café, leisure work with the young people, helping with our events, in- and outdoor activities, cooperation events, excursions, holiday programmes and workshops.

We show and explain our work and our principles to the volunteer. We would like him*her to show interest in our organisation and ask for more details to get a deeper insight into our work and the motivation behind the various activities. We teach her*him how to interact with youngsters and children.

As we try to reach young people in their leisure time, our opening hours are mostly in the afternoon and evening. This applies to the volunteer’s time in the organisation as well.

As the target group in our youth centres is between 10 and 20 years of age, we would prefer a person who is at least 20 years old.

The infrastructure with trains and buses is very accessible and frequent. Additionally, s*he will also have a bicycle at her*his disposal. The volunteer will receive a ticket for free use of any public transport in the whole region of Vorarlberg during the complete duration of the ESC project.

The Project Coordinator will hold a monthly evaluation meeting with all volunteers in Vorarlberg. At the end of the project, we will evaluate the project together with the volunteer: to see what s*he has learned and which competences s*he has gained and as a result fill out the Youthpass. Furthermore, there will be a final personal evaluation meeting with the Project Coordinator.