More than 1,500 volunteers dedicate themselves to a fellow city dweller through De Regenboog every year. As buddies, they help people with problematic debts, with addictions or who are new to the city get their lives back on track. We are immediately looking for an enthusiastic colleague to join our team.
As coordinator you ensure the right match with Amsterdammers who are looking for a buddy. In addition, you are responsible for guiding (new) volunteers, training and recruitment can be part of this. You have experience with people with a refugee background (in procedure, with temporary protection, with a status or undocumented) and are involved in their situation. The social map of Amsterdam has no secrets for you in this area.
Your duties will also include
✓ Conduct intake and evaluation interviews with participants in the buddy project
✓ Taking care of administrative reporting
✓ Maintaining our network
✓ Supervising trainees and providing intervisions
This job suits you if you
✓ Have a college working and thinking level
✓ Have experience working with people from refugee backgrounds (asylum seekers, status holders, undocumented, displaced persons)
✓ Have experience supervising volunteers
✓ Are willing to work an evening each month
✓ Be entrepreneurial, decisive and results-oriented
✓ Mastery of Dutch, English and - preferably - an additional language (such as an Eastern European language, Arabic, Tigrinya or Farsi)
This is a temporary annual contract with the option to extend.
We offer you
✓ A nice workplace in Amsterdam
✓ Lots of freedom to fill the position as you see fit
✓ A gross salary of a minimum of €2,950 and a maximum of €4,579 (FWG 50) based on 36 hours and working conditions according to the GGZ CAO
✓ The opportunity to make a difference for vulnerable Amsterdam residents
Are you excited about this position?
Then apply quickly! You can apply until Monday, January 12, 2026, 09:00 a.m.by sending your motivation and resume to De Regenboog Groep, for the attention of Susan Aukema, PO Box 10887, 1001 EW Amsterdam or emailing to sollicitatie@deregenboog.org.
The interviews will preferably take place on or just after January 20.
If you would like more information, please contact program coordinator Informal Care Lennaert Kiemeneij: 06 51 84 61 05.