Call for Workcamp’s Coordinators

Concordia’s international workcamps have the aim to promote peace, solidarity, friendships, active citizenship, tolerance and respect for others and the environment.

Coordinating a workcamp means working voluntarily during three weeks at a project of common utility, such as environment, archaeology, culture, patrimony and discovering a new region and its inhabitants.

Through this experience you will develop important skills that you will use in your professional life such as project and team management, you will improve your English and you will discover the associative sector.

Each workcamp will be composed of 12 to 20 participants. One third of them will be French volunteers and a maximum of 5 participants will have 17 years old.

The workcamps’ common language is English. Of course, if you have good bases of French, it will be easier to communicate.

Two leaders will be present in each workcamp:

• one for the group life (who will coordinate the group in the organisation of the daily life),
• and another for technical work (who will transfer his technical know-how to the volunteers).
They will assure:
• The integration of all the participants;
• The learning of the technical and social skills;
• The contact with the local population and the representative of the local Municipality (if the international coordinator does not speak well French, the French coordinator will mostly cover this role).
Leisure time is not planned before: it will be organised by the group with the local population and it will be based on the discovery of the region. Most of the time, camps are in small isolated villages and there is not necessarily a car available on the camp: future coordinators should be ready to accept that.

Conditions

Workcamp’s coordinators have some particular responsibilities but they will be considered volunteers as the other, it means that they won’t be paid. Accommodation and subsistence are covered as the coordinators will sleep and eat at the workcamp. Transports’ cost in France are covered (for a maximum of 200 € for one way and return).

Who can be workcamp’s coordinator ?

We don’t ask any particular certificate but we ask them in general to have some bases of oral French (the main workcamp’s language is English), to be motivated and to be dynamic! If you have any previous experience as workcamp’s coordinator you will be the perfect person for our workcamp.

Did you decide to get involved? Please contact us!

Please fill up the application form that you will find here below and send it to : Association Concordia
64 rue Pouchet
75017 Paris
international@concordia.fr

Download the application form

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