Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 31 Aug 2017
VSO is the world's leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our high-impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place.
Role overview
The role of the Voluntary Selector is to work as part of team to assess the suitability of candidates against VSO criteria. Our Selectors play a key role in helping VSO to assess
Our International Citizen Service (ICS) applicants, aged 18-25 years, who volunteer overseas on 3 month placements. Candidates attend a face-to-face assessment centre at our office in Kingston, taking part in different group activities throughout the day.
Our professional volunteers, from many different backgrounds, including education, health, IT and engineering, may go on placements of up to 2 years. Candidates are assessed through a Blended Selection Module, consisting of an initial application and pre-interview, a situational judgement test and then a panel interview with at least two Selectors.
Skills, qualifications and experience
The nature of the VSO Assessment methodologies requires Selectors to have specific skills and qualities. Thus it is important you feel able to broadly satisfy the following:
- Able to identify with VSO's purpose and values statements
- Non judgmental regarding the diverse nature of potential volunteers
- Confident in exploring sensitive personal issues
- Willing to work to VSO's assessment methodologies (Assessment Centre and Blended Selection)
- Able to work individually and as part of a decision making team
- Able to make individual assessments and willing to reassess these in the light of additional information
- Able to work within the time constraints of the Assessment methods
- Able to meet the annual requirement for participation in Assessment Days and ongoing training of at least 10 days per year
Selectors receive training on the VSO methodology and on going support. To enable Selectors to have sufficient practice to make effective assessments we ask for a minimum commitment of 10 days a year. A schedule of dates is sent out to Selectors well in advance and Selectors opt into these in a variety of ways to suit their work, personal commitments and availability.
Note: We reimburse all reasonable expenses
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