Achill
2008
Job descriptions of the manager posts
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During the preparatory course
Students had the chance to apply for specific jobs which they will perform
during the residential stay on Achill Island. In order to be selected
for the jobs, they had to customize their CVs to suit each position. They
sent their applications for these real jobs to their fellow students abroad
who had the responsibility of matching each CV to the job description
and deciding which candidate best fulfils the criteria.
The jobs entailed real responsibilities
and were carried out by the students on a very high level.
Below you find the detailed
descriptons of each job.
SOCIAL AND LANGUAGE DIVERSITY
MANAGER needed
(advertised by the German group)
to develop and maintain a friendly atmosphere during our stay on Achill
and to encourage as much international mixing as possible. The manager
will organize short interactive activities, multilingual games and make
sure that the different groups turn in to one big group.
Tasks & responsibilities:
- creation of a casual and
constructive atmosphere among the participants
- making sure that work is
always done in international teams (one of the priorities of the project!)
- organization of short exercises
for the evenings in Dublin and on Achill
- organizing regular Manager
Meetings where managers can share their concerns and plan improvements
- making sure that nobody
feels as an outsider
- inspiring cultural and linguistic
exchange through games and other activities
- helping us to experience
the richness of languages involved and making it visible every day with:
- preparing multilingual
stickers that you could put everywhere around during our stay (e.g.
the word “milk in all languages on the milk carton in the morning)”
- games – you can invent
new ones
- group discussions o
learning songs or poems in different languages
- make sure that every
member of the group makes the effort to learn at least a few words
and expressions of each foreign language!
What else are you going to
do for the group to ensure language diversity and a certain feel-good
factor? SURPRISE US WITH SOME CONCRETE IDEAS IN YOUR COVER LETTER! Please
concentrate on simple and short (5-10 minutes) activities that can be
carried out anywhere, e.g. when we are waiting for a train, or between
the main dish and dessert at dinner.
Required skills:
- gift for languages, interest
in several languages
- outgoing self-motivated
personality
- must want to be the centre
of attention
- diplomacy and good interpersonal
skills for animating activities o experience in international teamwork
- imagination/creativity
- ability to handle stress
and conflicts
- initiative and organizational
skills to find the right moment for activities
DOCUMENTATION AND EQUIPMENT
MANAGER needed
to organise and coordinate
the documentation of activities and to be responsible for coordination
and distribution of equipment as necessary for the Borrowed Identities
Intensive Programme.
Tasks and responsibilities:
Primary
- Coordinate the creation
of a ‘Travelogue’(=Travel blog) which documents the daily activities
(print and photos) of the Programme;
- Ensure daily student participation
in the Travelogue;
- Update daily student- and
activities-related entries to Travelogue;
- Brainstorm and implement
other opportunities for documenting the Programme experience.
Secondary
- Coordinate and distribute
equipment as necessary to Programme participants;
- Organise and schedule the
distribution [of] above.
Required skills:
- Excellent organisational
skills;
- Good computer skills, including
creation/maintenance of blogs and websites;
- Good knowledge of English
is desirable;
- Experience working in teams;
- Enthusiasm for promoting
the “ Achill experience”
CATERING MANAGER needed
(advertised by the Swedish group)
Vacancy for CATERING MANAGER
To plan, organize
and manage food and beverages for the participants of the Borrowed Identities
excursion. Keep in mind that this is a logistics task, the candidate does
not need to cook.
Do you have what it takes to
cater for the hunger pains of a culturally diverse range of students from
across Europe ? Could you keep everyone happy with a varied and satisfying
but inexpensive assortment of produce in their fridges? If you think you
have what it takes then we want to hear from you.
Job Description:
We require an energetic, highly motivated individual with a passion for
food and organizing to take charge of the daily basic supply. Typical
tasks will include…
- Organization of basic food
supply for breakfast and snacks
- Purchase of good quality,
low cost products in large amounts
- Co-ordination of food for
reception and farewell parties
While on Achill we will have
our dinner every night in the Achill Cliff House, a very good restaurant,
so everyone will get at least one “real” meal per day. There is a supermarket
close to the cottages we will stay in, and arrangements can be made before
we actually arrive on Achill Island .
Required Skills:
The ideal candidate
will be highly organized and able to work off their own initiative, reliable
with leadership qualities and the ability to work well under pressure.
Desirable Skills:
- Must have keen interest
in food and in supply chains
- Must have knowledge of management
and experience in organizing complex procedures
- Must be able to enforce
rules (e.g. for economical behaviour) in a group
- Knowledge of nutrition for
a healthy balanced diet
ACCOMMODATION MANAGER needed
(advertised by the Hungarian group)
Organizes the accommodation
on the island and in Dublin. Makes sure that different nationalities have
something in common for being able to live together in the same cottage
or room in Dublin. Looks after the cottages and that people from different
countries do not change places.
Tasks and responsibilities:
- Getting involved in all
aspects of accommodation (in Dublin and on Achill)
- Administration of room distribution
* Divide the rooms and mix nationalities
- Keep contact with group
leaders (is everything ok, is there a problem with the cottage)
- Make sure that all students
keep their rooms tidy and leave it in a good condition
- Help create a peaceful international
environment
- Able to tackle possible
conflicts
Required Skills:
- Self confident
- Determined
- Reliable
- Consequent
- Open minded
- Patient
- Good organization skills
- Well-organized
- Tolerant towards different
nationalities
Desirable Skills:
- Experience of organizing
field trips, youth camps
- Experience of working with
other cultures
- Speaking more foreign languages
PR/ CONTACT/ EMERGENCY MANAGER
(advertised by the Brighton group)
As part of the Borrowed
Identities project on Achill Island, February 2008.
Do you have what it takes to
organize public relations, develop effective communication mechanisms
between the groups and the Achill community and design emergency plans
for an international group? If you think you have what it takes then we
want to hear from you.
Job Description:
We require an
energetic, highly motivated communicator with strong organizational and
journalistic skills and effective data management techniques to provide
dynamic pr, develop and update a contact database and maintain emergency
details.
Typical tasks will include:
- PR – Liaising with a diverse
range of people and groups
- Organizing and writing newspaper
articles to be published before and during the stay
- Working with students, staff,
islanders and building and maintaining good relationships.
- Compiling and communicating
emergency plans
- Co-ordination of information
Required Skills:
The ideal candidate will be highly organized and able to work off their
own initiative, reliable with leadership qualities and the ability to
work well under pressure.
Desirable Skills:
- Must be an effective communicator
- Experience with writing
for newspapers/publishers
- Experience with Emergency
plans (e.g. Red Cross, etc.)
- Providing information and
maintaining effective relationships with a diverse range of people
- Organized and self-motivated
TRAVEL MANAGER needed
(advertised by the Lithuanian group)
Travel manager is required
to coordinate the journey from our home institutions to Dublin - Achill
- Dublin and back during the course and make sure all participants have
the important information concerning travel.
Tasks and responsibilities:
- To prepare a plan, which
would help to manage traveling activities for the whole Intensive Program.
Making sure that everyone in the group knows what their travel arrangements
are (flights, train travel, coach)
- To help find cheap connections
and remind every station to book flight tickets to Dublin and back;
to help them find the most convenient flights if they run into difficulties.
- Making sure that everyone
has all the necessary documentation (e.g. all members will need passports,
some visas, and international student cards like ISIC); Responsible
for running ahead and calling taxis, head-counts before we get on trains
and buses, etc.
- To hire a bus that would
wait and take the participants from Westport to Achill.
- To make the train and bus
trips to Achill interesting (to collaborate with Social Manager and
coordinate games or other activities on the train or the bus).
- To supply everyone with
a detailed plan of the way from the cottages to Achill Cliff House Hotel
(where we have our dinners) and its neighbourhood.
Required experience and
skills: ·
- Being able to make yourself
understood to a large group (loud voice).
- Excellent interpersonal
communication skills and diplomacy.
- Strong organizational skills
and energy with a desire to lead others.
- Timekeeping, self-confidence,
ability to handle stress.
- A genuine interest in travel
and working out complex time-tables Desirable experience and skills:
- Good skills of some other
languages, except English and the native.
- Similar work experience
would be an advantage.
- Studies in the field of
travel management.
- Skills in simplifying and
documenting complex structures.
- Interest in history and
culture
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