Volunteer Job Functions
Number of types of Volunteer competencies.
What is three?
What is capacity strengthening?
Build trust and relationships, integrate into the community, and bring different community members together.
What is develop relationships?
According to core expectation number two, the Volunteer will work alongside community members on locally prioritized projects for these three reasons.
What is build relationships, promote knowledge exchange, and contribute to a lasting impact?
How Volunteers related to themselves and others, across aspects of culture and across similarities and differences, in individual interactions, interpersonal interactions, and as part of an organization and communities.
What is integrate into communities?
Health reporting and response, personal health management, personal risk mitigation, and safety and security reporting and response belong to this job function.
What is exemplify?
Listen to and leverage practical solutions to address community-defined priorities.
What is grassroots?
Gather information and gain key insights by observing, learning from, and engaging community members.
What is discover?
According to core expectation number four, the Volunteer will commit to spending most of his or her time doing this.
What is appreciating and integrating into the host community and culture?
The mindset, orientation, or approach Volunteers bring to service and work and their way of ”being.”
What is exemplify commitment to service and resilience?
What are capacity building methods; collaboration; monitor, learn, adapt, and report; participatory analysis; and technical.
What is facilitate?
Engage in a variety of stakeholders in all phases of the development process to foster access and ownership.
What is participation?
Make sense of observations, insights, and discoveries to generate or improve project ideas.
What is dream?
According to core expectation number seven, the Volunteer will adhere to and work within these two things.
What is the policies and rules of the Peace Corps and the local and national laws of the country served?
Mutual Learning, and exchange and strengthening of knowledge and skills—“doing” activities in collaboration with community members and partners, consistent with the Peace Corps’ approach to development and the roles of the Volunteer.
What is facilitate participatory development?
Intercultural engagement and language and intercultural communication.
What is integrate?
Work alongside counterparts and community members to catalyze community-led change.
What is community-centered?
Prototype, test, refine, and improve project ideas.
What is design?
According to core expectation number eight, the Volunteer will exercise judgment and personal responsibility to protect this.
What is the health, safety, and well-being of self and others?
Strategies for health prevention and safety and security risk mitigation, and commitment to care-seeking, reporting, and response.
What is demonstrate responsibility for personal health, safety, and security?
Accountability; adaptability and flexible thinking; continual learning; emotional agility; initiative; problem solving; service orientation; and social connections.
What is exemplify?
Strive for lasting relationships and impacts, not quick fixes.
What is long-term impact>short-term gains?
According to core expectation number nine, the Volunteer will recognize, in the host country and community, that the Volunteer represents these four things.
What is the people, cultures, values, and traditions of the United States of America?