Time Commitment: Flexible; 1-2 hours per week available to answer questions sent via the LP’s communication platform, Slack. Monthly or quarterly meetings in-person.
Intern reports to: Bridge Team Manager and Social Care Director
Minimum Education Level: Formal qualification and experience in your area of expertise (law; accounting; social support; housing)
Start Date: Not hiring at the moment
Summary of Context
The Lisbon Project’s mission is to build a community that integrates and empowers refugees and migrants. The Bridge Team’s role in this is to support community members get integrated through increased understanding of their specific Portuguese paperwork and empowered through more generalised workshops that increase knowledge of Portugal and their rights within it.
We aim to have 1:1 Bridge Team drop-in support available any time the Lisbon Project is open so that community members always have a warm and welcoming place where they can talk through their bureaucratic questions and be accompanied, equipped and encouraged as they work out the next steps they need to take.
Bridge Team volunteers are not experts and they do not “casehold” or take on ongoing responsibility for community member’s situations after the drop-in session. Most community members benefit significantly from simply having a native Portuguese speaker alongside them as they navigate basic bureaucratic processes but, where the administrative or legal situations are more complex, community members are signposted to more specialist services outside of the Lisbon Project. We are currently in the process of recruiting a selection of experts to provide adhoc advice to volunteers as they respond and re-direct community members navigating more complex processes.
Summary of Role
Connecting to the Lisbon Project communication platform and being available to respond to the Bridge Team volunteer questions that you have expertise/experience/knowledge in. Questions include situations related to AIMA applications; IRS submissions; access to healthcare; seguranca social applications; qualification conversion; access to childcare etc.
Benefits
Contribution to social impact – self-fulfillment and personal growth in pursuing a valuable cause
Knowledge growth – learning about immigration related processes, contexts and realities as well as other NGO related topics in Portugal
Becoming a part of the LP team and community – its diversity of people, passions and foods!
We can’t do it without you! Thank you for being a part of our team
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