Sea-Watch is looking for a facilitator (30h/Week)

Sea-Watch is looking for a facilitator (30h/week)

Büro Berlin, Homeoffice, from September

Sea-Watch e.V. is a non-profit initiative dedicated to civil sea rescue in the central Mediterranean. In the face of an ongoing and state-initiated humanitarian catastrophe, we provide acute emergency aid. We demand and push for rescue operations by the responsible European institutions and publicly advocate legal escape routes, freedom of movement and a Europe of solidarity. Through our work, we provide information and draw attention to the fate of refugees and the humanitarian catastrophe in the Mediterranean. At the same time, we want our campaign to encourage other people to take action. Sea-Watch is politically and religiously independent and is financed exclusively by donations.

Our Organisational Support Team is a central pillar in the People, Culture & Organisation department and offers comprehensive support to promote efficiency and collaboration. It provides structural support for teams, working groups and projects and offers training and coaching to strengthen self-organisation and the assumption of responsibility. The team’s main tasks include organisational development, improving cooperation and implementing new approaches and methods. This also includes supporting decision-making and providing the necessary tools and knowledge for various work processes.

For the team of our People, Culture & Organisation department, we are looking for a Facilitator with a weekly workload of 30 hours as soon as possible. Most of the work can be done remotely, but it is also necessary for you to come to the Berlin office regularly.

As an experienced facilitator, you will ensure optimal framework conditions to effectively support our decision-making groups in their work and decision-making processes. This includes the moderation and steering of groups, the further development of processes and structures and the promotion of the competences of the members of the decision-making groups. You play a central role in shaping and maintaining a consistent organisational culture and ensure that the decision-making groups work in line with the organisation’s vision, values and goals. In doing so, you apply the principles of servant leadership.

You work closely with another facilitator and act largely independently and autonomously within the framework of the defined goals and tasks. Thanks to your systemic thinking and analytical skills, you recognise needs for the decision-making circles at an early stage and continuously develop them further.

• You provide the organisational framework for the decision-making circles, moderate meetings and promote solution-oriented collaboration. This includes the coordination, preparation and follow-up of meetings and the standardisation of decision-making processes.
• You prioritise proposals, support the decision-making processes using various methods, involve relevant stakeholders and accompany the implementation and evaluation of decisions made through regular follow-ups and evaluation formats.
• You will ensure that decisions are properly documented and forwarded to the relevant departments. You will also maintain and develop common tools and promote their standardised use.
• You maintain an overview, pay attention to clear role allocations and use your moderation skills to ensure that the working methods and processes of the teams and decision-making groups remain harmonious. If necessary, you provide impetus for the improvement of processes and structures.
• With your impartial attitude, you promote constructive dialogue, intervene in conflicts at an early stage by referring them to the appropriate bodies and proactively approach the resolution of problems.
• You support the competence development of the decision-making circles through training programmes, feedback and retrospectives, which you plan and carry out as required. You will regularly liaise with the other facilitator in team supervisions and collegial case discussions.

• You have several years of practical experience in facilitation, as an Agile Coach or Scrum Master in a self-organised working environment and have already actively contributed to the (further) development of agile working methods.
• You have already dealt with alternative concepts for organisational structures such as holacracy.
• You have comprehensive moderation skills and methodological competence to manage group processes and bring about targeted decisions.
• You have in-depth experience in process control, (agile) project management and the use of digital tools (e.g. Kanban, Miro, Active Collab, Mattermost).
• You have strong leadership skills and represent the attitude of servant leadership.
• You are able to grasp complex interrelationships, derive strategies and implement them in line with Sea-Watch’s vision.
• Professionalism, diplomatic skills and the ability to mediate between different interests characterise you.
• You are able to empathise with others and deal with people empathetically, and you have excellent communication skills.
• You recognise tensions at an early stage and intervene in conflicts by mediating with appropriate bodies. Ideally, you will have knowledge of conflict management and/or mediation.
• You proactively master unknown, changing challenges and are resilient and assertive.
• You are characterised by a structured, independent way of working, can manage several tasks at the same time and demonstrate a high degree of initiative.
• You are business fluent in written and spoken English. Ideally, you also have knowledge of German.
• You have strong identification with the goals of Sea-Watch e.V..

The position is initially limited to 12 months with the option to extend.

• A meaningful, varied job with a gross monthly salary of 2,550 euros for 30 hours per week.
• A transparent internal salary system in which we categorise suitable applicants based on their professional experience and knowledge. There are annual salary increases depending on length of service as well as supplements for family needs, such as child support, caring for relatives and in the case of severe disability or equalisation.
• 30 days’ holiday plus days off on 24 December and 31 December, as well as various time-off models, including one month’s paid time off after 18 months of employment.
• Subsidy of 30 per cent for company pension schemes.
• Flexible working hours and working time models as well as the option to work remotely, regular work in the Berlin office necessary.
• Offering internal training courses and workshops as well as promoting individual further training.
• A dynamic working environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes.
• Insights into the work of a non-profit organisation with constantly new challenges and ideas.
• Close cooperation in the Organisational Support Team and comprehensive onboarding.
• The opportunity to help shape the company through exciting projects and organisational meetings, even outside the box, and plenty of freedom to try out new things.
• Participation, digitalisation and agility are an integral part of our everyday life.