Volunteering & Voluntary work
Working together to protect the rainforestTogether we can save the rainforest. Become part of our team and support us in a variety of areas.
HONORARY OFFICE
As a volunteer, you donate your time to us. You work for Tropica Verde in Germany, Switzerland or your home town on a long-term basis. Your assignments are at regular intervals, but can vary in terms of duration and tasks as required. Depending on how much time and desire you have.
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VOLONTARIAT
As a volunteer, you work for Tropica Verde for a certain period of time on site in Costa Rica. This period is determined in advance. If you write a scientific paper on a topic or project relevant to our association, we may provide financial support.
This is how you can get involved with Tropica Verde:
Stand support
Support us at events and inform visitors about our projects. about our projects.
Position: Volunteer stand supervisor
Assignment: Approx. 3-4 events per year
Location: Primarily Frankfurt/Hesse area; other locations possible
Your tasks:
- Supervision and support at our stand at Tropica Verde events
- Active communication with visitors and team members
What you bring with you:
- Friendliness
- Communication skills
- Interest in environmental protection
Environmental education: Tours in the palm garden
Support us in organizing tours to the Monte Alto Beet
Position: Tour guide in the Tropicarium (Palmengarten Frankfurt)
Assignment: As required
Location: Frankfurt area
Your tasks:
- Implementation of interactive tours in the Palmengarten
- Active communication with interested parties
- Environmental education in the sense of education for sustainable development
What you bring with you:
- Friendliness
- Communication skills
- Interest in plants & environmental protection
- Experience in speaking in front of groups (an advantage, but not a must)
Fundraising
Support us in financing our rainforest projects
Position: Planning and support of fundraising activities
Assignment: As required and available
Location: Flexible
Your tasks:
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Planning and organization of fundraising campaigns
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Support in the implementation of fundraising events
- From idea to implementation: developing creative ideas for fundraising
What you bring with you:
- Organizational talent & initiative
- Diligence & reliability
- Creativity & communication skills
- Experience in fundraising or event organization (an advantage, but not a must)
Donation platforms
Update and maintain our profiles on various platforms.
Position: Maintenance and updating of donation platform profiles
Assignment: As required
Location: Frankfurt area or worldwide/remote
Your tasks:
- Updating and maintaining our profiles on various donation platforms
- Optimization of content for better visibility
- Support with the administration of incoming donations and platform requirements
What you bring with you:
- Experience with online platforms and digital tools
- Careful and reliable way of working
- Interest in fundraising and charitable projects
- Ideally experience with donation platforms
Legal advice
Advise us on environmental and association law matters.
Position: Support in legal matters
Assignment: As required
Location: Germany-wide
Your tasks:
- Advice on environmental and association law
- Support with legal issues and documents
- Review of contracts and association guidelines
What you bring with you:
- Legal training or equivalent experience
- Interest in environmental and association law
- Careful and structured way of working
Photo archive & media
Organize and manage our digital photo files.
Position: Organization & maintenance of digital photo files
Assignment: As required
Location: Frankfurt area
Your tasks:
- Structuring and maintaining our digital photo archive
- Sorting, labeling and categorizing image material
- Occasional image editing to optimize the photos
What you bring with you:
- Basic knowledge of image processing and archiving
- Careful and structured way of working
- Interest in visual documentation and rainforest projects
Website maintenance
Update and optimize content on our German website.
Position: Support & updating of the German website
Assignment: As required and available
Location: worldwide/remote
Your tasks:
- Updating and maintaining the content on our German website
- Ensuring an appealing and error-free presentation
- Coordination of translators of content for the website or other tasks (depending on skills)
What you bring with you:
- Experience with content management systems (CMS), especially WordPress
- Very good knowledge of German and a flair for clear texts
- Careful and structured way of working
Translation (Spanish/English)
Translate and review content in Spanish and/or English.
Position: Translator for public relations
Assignment: As required and available
Location: Frankfurt area or worldwide/remote
Your tasks:
- Review and translation of content for our website
- Adaptation and translation of communication materials
- Ensuring consistent and appealing voice quality
What you bring with you:
- Fluency in Spanish and/or English
- A good feel for language and an understanding of cultural nuances
- Careful and precise way of working
- Knowledge of WordPress (an advantage for implementation, but not a must)
PR & Social Media
Create materials, maintain our social media channels and organize PR events.
Position: Support in PR & Social Media
Assignment: According to demand and availability
Location: Frankfurt area or worldwide/remote
Your tasks:
- Maintenance and support of our social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube)
- Organization and support for PR events
What you bring with you:
- Creativity and a flair for appealing content
- Good writing and communication skills
- Ideally experience with social media and digital platforms
PR & press relations
Position Tropica Verde in the public eye, expand the strategic network & strengthen our image as a transparent NGO.
Position: Support in media relations as well as distribution and writing of
Location: Frankfurt area or as required
Your tasks:
- Support with media relations & press inquiries
- Creation & distribution of press releases
- Establishing and maintaining contacts with relevant media and journalists
What you bring with you:
- Good writing skills – and a flair for targeted communication
- Interest in PR & press work
- Experience in the media industry or press relations (an advantage, but not a must)
Text creation
Write texts for our website, newsletter
and other means of communication.
Position: Creation of texts for various communication channels
Assignment: As required
Location: worldwide/remote
Your tasks:
- Writing texts for our website
- Creating content for newsletters and social media
- Support in the development of communication materials
What you bring with you:
- Very good writing skills and a flair for appealing texts
- Creativity and the ability to formulate complex content in an understandable way
- Interest in sustainable topics and charitable work
What we offer you
- A network of environmentally-minded Costa Rica lovers with lots of insider knowledge
- Exchange with like-minded people
- Comprehensive familiarization with your tasks
- Open and respectful team communication
- Regular face-to-face and online meetings for exchange and planning
- Further training opportunities
Questionnaire for volunteers of Tropica Verde
This questionnaire serves to assess how you can best contribute your commitment to TROPICA VERDE e.V. and, above all, in
your interests. This will enable us to better coordinate the work of our
volunteers. The information will only be used for the volunteer management
of TROPICA VERDE e.V. and will not be passed on to third parties.
(If you have any problems, please feel free to contact us at any time at: mail@tropica-verde.de)
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