Working for the development cooperation
Would you like to work abroad and combine your skills with socially relevant activities? The most important requirements are solidarity, commitment and a passion for working together in partnership. The following are also important:
- As a general rule, a completed degree is a requirement; in some cases, completed vocational training is sufficient
- At least two years of professional experience, in which your specialist knowledge was put to good use
- Experience abroad, especially in non-European countries, is an advantage
- In most cases we can only place EU or Swiss citizens
- Interest in other cultures
- Very good written and spoken foreign language skills appropriate to the country of assignment
- Identification with the goals and values of church development cooperation
Working for the Civil Peace Service
As a Civil Peace Service development worker, you will work in conflict regions. Therefore, your core competencies will include empathy and resilience, a high level of social responsibility and strong communication skills. In addition, you need:
- A completed degree
- Professional expertise in a field relevant to peace work
- At least two years of professional experience
- Adult education skills
- Experience in organisational development or in the management of social organisations
- Networking knowledge
- Communication and public relations knowledge
- Project planning, monitoring and evaluation (PME) skills
- Very good written and spoken foreign language skills appropriate to the country of assignment
Our benefits - your impetus
We want you to feel good working with us:
Subsistence payments
12 subsistence payments (and a prorated 13th) are based on your degree, experience, marital status, and your obligations to support your dependants. Other allowances will be considered on an individual basis.
Social benefits
Social insurance includes statutory pension, accident and unemployment insurance as well as health insurance for you and the dependants accompanying you.
Private insurance
In addition to statutory insurance, we also take out private insurance including professional and personal liability as well as accident insurance.
Personnel development
Individual seminars including language and safety courses ensure your personal development and effectively strengthen your work on location.
Health care
We bear the costs for medical examinations, the health check beforehand and vaccinations to ensure you are perfectly prepared for your assignment.
Cost coverage
We bear the costs for rent and consumption. The pro-rata costs for furnishing your accommodation depend on the number of people living there.
"I'm learning a lot about myself - primarily to become flexible in my mind"
AGIAMONDO Co-worker about their daily work and life in Cameroon
For 60 years, AGIAMONDO has been a reliable partner for development workers and a competent recruitment agency for a large number of church and other civil-society organisations in international development cooperation. As a state-recognised recruitment agency, we place qualified development workers from Germany and the European Union who follow Christian values in projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Since its foundation in 1959 by Catholic associations and organisations, AGIAMONDO has been able to place more than 6,000 development workers in development projects.
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