About the Role
GermanDream is seeking a person to bridge volunteer engagement and program work, focusing on operational coordination and community activation. This role is crucial for strengthening volunteerism, developing community structures, and enhancing the connection between educational formats and the people who make them possible.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate the involvement of value ambassadors, moderators, and other stakeholders in educational and exchange formats.
- Maintain contact with the community, manage schedules, agreements, and handovers.
- Ensure participants are well-informed, engaged, and ready to participate.
- Focus on operational coordination and activation of the network.
- Match individuals with suitable formats.
- Support onboarding and accompaniment processes.
- Utilize community feedback for program work.
- Accompany and activate the community of value ambassadors, moderators, and other volunteers.
- Coordinate onboarding, accompaniment, and activation processes for volunteers.
- Maintain contact with community members, ensuring clear, appreciative, and reliable communication.
- Maintain overviews, contact details, agreements, and relevant information for community work.
- Identify community needs, feedback, and interests and relay them to the team.
- Support exchange formats like get-togethers, qualifications, or community meetings organizationally and content-wise.
- Coordinate the integration of value ambassadors, moderators, and other participants into ongoing educational formats and projects.
- Align with the team to match project needs with available community resources.
- Coordinate schedules, information, inquiries, and handovers between the community, program work, and external stakeholders.
- Support the planning, organization, and execution of participation, exchange, and qualification formats.
- Ensure experiences and feedback from engagements are visible and incorporated into future work.
- Document relevant experiences, learnings, and feedback from community work.
- Prepare information for team, program work, and reporting purposes.
- Collaborate closely with various roles within the GermanDream team, especially at the interfaces of community, project planning, and quality/learning.
- Provide early feedback on unclear processes, handovers, or responsibilities.
- Support in making existing community work processes clearer, more reliable, and practical.
Requirements
- First to several years of experience in project coordination, community work, volunteer coordination, educational work, political education, or a comparable context.
- Experience working with volunteers, groups, participants, or communities (professionally, voluntarily, or within projects).
- Ability to approach, activate, and reliably accompany people.
- Structured work approach with the ability to manage multiple contacts, appointments, and parallel tasks.
- Clear, appreciative, and reliable communication skills.
- Ability to sort, document, and make information usable for others.
- Enjoyment of coordination and interface work.
- Interest in democracy education, participation, political education, and social cohesion.
- Work in a discrimination-sensitive, inclusive, and value-based manner.
- Proficiency with digital work tools or ability to learn quickly.
Skills
- Project coordination
- Community work
- Volunteer coordination
- Educational work
- Political education
- Digital work tools
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Part-time or Full-time (ideally 30-40 hours/week)
- Temporary contract
Experience Level
- Entry-level to several years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- €40,400 - €42,900 gross per year (for 40 hours/week)
Benefits
- Meaningful work at the intersection of community, volunteering, and education.
- Engaged team with clear values and direct collaboration.
- Scope for design within clear areas of responsibility.
- Insight into the implementation of funded educational projects.
- Flexible working hours.
- Possibility of mobile work.
- Office in Berlin-Mitte.
- 30 vacation days (5-day week).
- Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve off.
- Monthly benefit: choice between public transport subsidy or tax-free voucher.
- Potential for extension until the end of 2027 (subject to funding).
- Transparent salary structure with fair and long-term development prospects.
About the Company
- GermanDream is Germany's most prominent educational movement for lived democracy and participation.
- They convey the values of the Basic Law through encounter formats, educational programs, networking, and public relations.
- Their educational work is driven by individuals committed to democracy and social cohesion.
- Over 800 volunteer value ambassadors and other engaged individuals shape and enable their educational formats.
- Community and volunteering are essential components of their educational work, making democracy education personal, relatable, and effective.
- HÁWAR.help e.V. is a human rights organization founded on the ashes of the genocide against the Yazidis.
- They implement development, education, and awareness programs in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Germany, as well as international awareness and advocacy initiatives.
- GermanDream is a non-partisan and independent educational initiative in the heart of Berlin.
- Initiator Düzen Tekkal is a human rights activist, journalist, filmmaker, publicist, and social entrepreneur.
- They are committed to conveying social values through value dialogues with young people nationwide.
Equal Opportunity
- We want to create a working environment that thrives on diverse perspectives and particularly welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- We welcome applications regardless of origin, ethnic or social affiliation, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, or disability.
- If you do not meet all requirements but feel the role is a good fit, we encourage you to apply.
