Funded Volunteer Opportunity with ESC at VU Museum of Zoology in Lithuania
By: VU Museum of ZoologyLast update:
Applicant criteria
NationalityUnited Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Comoros, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
SpecialityAll Specialties
Gender
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Job locationLithuania
Needed documentsCV, Cover Letter, others
Opportunity description
VU Museum of Zoology is offering a volunteer opportunity for active volunteers who want to help. Volunteers will have a proactive role assisting the staff of the Museum team in the individual work of grouping, inventory and data entry to the database of scientific collections.
Requirements:
The volunteers must be:
- Self-motivated, willing to take new challenges, and open to working with people of all backgrounds and cultures.
- Dynamic, versatile, good mood, flexible, with self-initiative, experienced in a museum or scientific (biology) or designer-artistic or the media work.
- Able to manage and solve working tasks in a creative way.
- Enthusiastic to participate in the project; mature to work and to relate to a group of Museum community and willing to develop activities with responsibility.
Responsibilities:
- To be a helper of the scientists in the grouping of scientific material (Vertebrates or Invertebrates).
- Looking after scientific material after primary fixation at the time when they have to be prepared for long-term storage.
- To be a helper of the Museum staff in the inventory, documentation, digitization and data entry to the Museum database and Lithuanian Integral Museum Information System.
- To help create dynamics of occupation of free time activities for visitors of VU Zoological museum, through the realization of games and group work, thematic conversations, practical tasks or projects.
Benefits:
- The volunteer will be hosted in flat together with other volunteers in Vilnius.
- Each volunteer will have their own room.
- A monthly bus card will be provided.
- Volunteers will receive food and pocket money every month.
Training Period:
The volunteer will have an integration week organized by coordinating the organization. During the volunteer service, volunteers will also have On-Arrival and Mid Term training organized by the National Agency.
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