Engineers Without Borders-UK Placements Team Role Briefing & Recruitment Training Project Managers EWB-UK Placement Team 8-9 March 2007

Engineers Without Borders-UK Placements Team This Weekend: Activities Saturday –10:45Project Planning & Volunteer Selection –13:00Lunch –14:00Volunteer Screening Workshop –16:15Briefing, Monitoring & Evaluation –18:00Close - Evening Social Sunday –9:30Interview Skills Workshop –12:00Lunch –13:00Wrap-up & Actions –15:00Close Key: Role Briefing Recruitment Training 1. Overview

Engineers Without Borders-UK Placements Team This Weekend: Overall Goal > Poverty Alleviation < This weekend, like all EWB-UK events and activities, contributes to the mission of facilitating human development through engineering Our approach is to build communities of and for the UK youth to participate in this mission, ultimately by working through existing international development organisations The placements programme enables volunteers to facilitate development projects through partner organisations, deliberately using and contributing to communities of practice 1. Overview

Engineers Without Borders-UK Placements Team This Weekend: Purpose >Empowering our Project Managers< You, our project managers, are responsible for planning, preparing for, monitoring and evaluating projects; the hub of a network of people that enable, and learn from each project. This training session will enable you to fulfil this role by exploring what it could involve, discussing difficulties you may face, and offering support and guidance in building, accessing these networks. The training session will also give you the skills and understanding to fairly and professionally place the best volunteers for your projects. 1. Overview

Engineers Without Borders-UK Placements Team This Weekend: Outputs >Role Understanding< You will have an understanding of the project manager’s role, including: Our expectations from you Resources required and available Potential problems you may face Benefits and opportunities >Recruitment Skills< You will have a practiced ability to perform the following recruitment activities: Screen volunteer applications Prepare for an interview Conduct an interview >Team-Level Actions< There will be an agreed and owned set of follow-up actions

Engineers Without Borders-UK Placements Team This Weekend: Summary Poverty Alleviation Empowering our Project Managers Role Understanding Recruitment Skills Team Actions Sunday –9:30 Interview Skills Workshop –12:00 Lunch –13:00 Wrap-up & Actions –15:00 Close Saturday –10:45 Project Planning & Volunteer Selection –13:00 Lunch –14:00 Volunteer Screening Workshop –16:15 Briefing, Monitoring & Evaluation –18:00 Close - Evening Social