MS Office Trainer (E-Volunteering)

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Location: E-Placement,

Peru Partner: Help Them Hope

Length of Placement: 2-3 months

Planned Start Date: ASAP

Eligibility: Open to American Citizens and Permanent Residents

Language Requirements English Level 3 (Intermediate) Spanish Level 4 (Advanced)

About Cuso International

Cuso International is an international development organization that works to reduce poverty and inequality through the efforts of skilled volunteers. Each year, we place volunteers from North and South America in developing countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America. Volunteers collaborate with local partners on health, education, environment, social justice and livelihoods projects, sharing knowledge and experience to create sustainable change.

About Help Them Hope

Help Them HOPE is a small non-profit organization that both empowers and provides inclusive services to people with disabilities/chronic illnesses across Peru. Inclusive services and greater opportunities to access education and work opportunities are very important to the well-being of many people with disabilities in Peru. In Peru alone, 8 out of 10 people with disabilities are unemployed. High unemployment rates of people with disabilities can be attributed to both an inability to attain an education- whether for financial or accessibility reasons- but also discrimination within the workforce. This puts many people with disabilities across the country at a disadvantage. Hope provides programs such as both their HOPE Scholarship and new national volunteer program (pilot) to give people with disabilities the opportunity to strive and achieve their dreams, by reducing barriers that often leave people discouraged. www.helpthemhope.org

The Volunteer’s Role

On a one-on-one basis, teach a Hope Scholarship service recipient to become proficient in MS Office suite (Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook). As this is a pilot, the focus will be on the development of tools and resources to support learning and the e-volunteer will work with just one service recipient for this placement. Learnt skills are designed to help office managers, technicians, administrative support personnel and organization users of the MS Office Suite.

Specific duties may include:

- Research and develop a formal training plan and specifically identify the tools that will be needed considering the specific needs of the service recipient

- Deliver training based on the identified needs of the service recipient and if applicable, prepare individual for MS Office proficiency exams

- Teach beneficiary using a systematic plan of lessons, audio-visual presentations, independent projects, case studies, etc.

- Prepare, administer and correct homework and tests

- Evaluate progress and monitor ongoing needs of client

- Research, develop and/or customize MS Office training tools and individual learning plan

- Create and share easy to use training materials such as PowerPoint presentations, virtual documents/materials, tip sheets, etc.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Academic Qualifications: MS Office proficiency, i.e. MCT (Microsoft Certified Teacher), MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist), etc Essential

Professional Background/Competencies:

- Experience in facilitation and training

- Workshop design and delivery experience

- Communication Skills: able to speak clearly

- Instruction Skills: explain new/complex ideas and unfamiliar concepts in a clear and concise way so that clients can understand; able to keep the client’s attention - Writing Skills: write progress reports, note homes, evaluations, etc.

- Patience: work with service beneficiaries from different backgrounds and with abilities

- Creativity: find ways to involve clients into their lessons; work with different learning styles to get the most out of each beneficiary

- People Skills: Engage clients and create healthy relationships which will help create a quality learning environment

Training and Financial Support

E-Volunteers will participate in a one-hour online orientation session in e-volunteering procedures. Information materials about working and communicating in an online environment are also available on the project web site: http://cusointernational.org/content/e-volunteering-project. Based on approval, we will provide reimbursement to a maximum amount of USD $100, with receipts, for communications expenses such as Skype minutes, photocopying, and mail. Long-distance telephone call expenses will not be covered.

Technical Requirements E-Volunteers are expected to supply their own basic home office equipment and have a moderate knowledge of computer technology. Please refer to the Technical Requirements document for a complete list of requirements: http://tinyurl.com/osubveg.

About the initiative The 'Diasporas for Development Initiative’ is a public private partnership generously supported by USAID and Accenture, implemented by Cuso International. The 'Diasporas for Development Initiative’ is a two year pilot project designed to address the challenge of human resource gaps in developing countries, often due to 'brain drain,’ by engaging US-based volunteers to share their skills with Cuso’s local program partners. The program takes a two pronged approach to promoting diaspora engagement in countries of ancestry:

1. Developing partnerships with Diaspora Partner Organizations (DPO’s) in the U.S. through reciprocal exchange of support; and,

2. Recruiting US-based professionals from the diaspora to share their skills in support of projects that build employability and entrepreneurship skills in their countries of ancestry (focus on Secure Livelihoods). For more information on the innitiative and it’s partners: http://www.cusointernational.org/diasporas-for-development

To apply: https://cusoconnect.cusointernational.org/journey/placement/detail/48293/