Volunteer Costa Rica: Volunteer Coordinator for Sea Turtle Conservation Project

  Costa Rica

Rural Areas

Durations of Program: 9-12 weeks, 3-6 months and 7-12 months
Typical Duration of Program: 9-12 weeks
Dates: open

Description:
- Picking up and welcoming the new volunteers
- Give orientation
- Provide training
- Follow and enforce rules of the Refuge station
- Organize all volunteer shifts
- Organize and plan meals
- Plan the patrol schedules etc.
- Conduct Turtle research
- Monitor the hatchery and the hatchery schedules
- Organize weekly meetings
- Collect weekly reports Schedule is dependent on turtle season and number of volunteers available.
- 6 days a week, with 1 day off
- 6 to 8 hour shifts
- Send weekly feedback and news to head office in San Ramon, Costa Rica
- Maintain effective communication between head office and project sight

Highlights: As a Volunteer Coordinator you will only have one day off, therefore you won't have enough time to travel to further destinations. You may decide to take advantage of the local culture and spend time within the community over the weekend or explore nearby beaches and towns.

Beaches near project sight:
* Santa Teresa
* Mal Pais
* Montezuma

Qualifications:
* Language: Intermediate Spanish and English. However, you can still join this project if your Spanish does not meet the requirements, by taking our Spanish language course.
* Calm and Efficient: Must be able to remain calm and efficient under pressure.
* Excellent Communication Skills: Must be able to communicate with people of all ages and backgrounds.
* Adaptability and Flexibility: Must be able to work in a new and different environment.
* Team Leader: Works wells in group settings, and can take direction and accept feedback.
* Hard Work Ethic: Must be willing to work 6 days a week.

Cost in US$: USD 765 for 2 weeks

Experience Required: no

Age Range: Must Be 25 years or older.

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Costa Rica Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Online Application plus Application Assessment

Post-Program Services Include:

• Exit Debriefing Abroad
• Alumni Network
• Job and Internship Network

uVolunteer, Volunteer Travel Abroad's Mission Statement: uVolunteer's mission is to provide meaningful and affordable volunteering placements to our volunteers without sacrificing neither service nor quality; and the capacity to deliver this volunteer resource and funding directly to grass root projects, local non-governmental and public organisations in rural and urban communities in need worldwide.

Year Founded: 2005