Tobias Stapf

Experience

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  Goethe Institute and German Academic Exchange Service

  Jan 2003 - Jul 2003

  Research Assistant

  Researched and organised an exhibition on this history of German-Egyptian academic cooperation

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  European Parliament

  Jun 2005 - Jul 2005

  Research Assistant

  Collated background research for my MEP's legal initiative on SMEs in developing countries Professionally maintained office operations in team-work with the MEP's assistant

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  Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2007

  Deputy English Department Head and English Teacher

  Working as an English teacher and Deputy Department Head at this orphanage in Guatemala I mainly taught English to about 50 students from 5 to 20 years.Because of my interest I also organised a film production project with the students and got them building houses for Habitat for Humanity to get to know Guatemalan life outside their relatively protected world in the orphanage.

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  World Peace Forum

  Jan 2006 - Jul 2006

  Volunteer Coordinator

  - Pro-actively coordinated and managed a team of volunteers as team leader- Managed volunteer database of 1400 entries and coordinated volunteers

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  City of New Westminster

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2006

  Events Organiser

  I organised a community event for and with parents with young children living in New Westminster, Canada. The strategy of involving the local community turned out to be crucial to the success of the event.

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  UBC Model United Nations

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2006

  Director

  Organised a one-week Model United Nations event for 50 participants, recruiting international guest speakers, and chairing discussion sessions.

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  Faith Regen Foundation

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2008

  Conference Organiser

  At Faith Regen I took a leading role in organising an international conference on "Women's Role in promoting peaceful Coexistence", in cooperation with the Commonwealth Foundation.

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  Toynbee Hall

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2011

  I managed a London-wide debt advice service delivering free debt advice to 10,000 people a year across the capital.By working strategically with the Mayor of London's Debt Strategy Group and national partners like Citizens Advice I contributed to renewing government funding for our national debt advice programme, worth £25 million. I researched and published social policy reports on London's debt crisis for the Mayor of London's Debt Strategy Group. I was able to negotiate data-sharing agreements with national advice providers like Citizens Advice and the Legal Services Commission. During my time in this role I successfully coordinated a pilot project for improving advice services. I worked on realising a user-involvement strategy and community-based research projects for the debt advice service.

  • Partnership Manager for Capitalise Partnership

    Apr 2010 - Jan 2011

  • Partnership Coordinator for Capitalise Partnership

    Jan 2008 - Jan 2010
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  The Young Foundation

  Apr 2011 - Jun 2012

  General Manager at The U - a citizens university

  The U is a brand new venture by the Young Foundation and NESTA which offers short, interactive learning sessions delivered by volunteers. I was priviledged to manage the startup of the The U's first location in the UK. Our aim is to provide a new opportunity for people to gain practical skills and have fun learning them and get to know new people from their neighbourhood in the process.

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  Wave Change Ireland

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2013

  Lead Facilitator

  Wave Change Ireland is a bold new programme supporting 25 young Irish social innovators to make their ideas happen and to make their voices heard in the discussion about national renewal during this time of crisis. I am working with the Wave Change team to plan the 2013 Wave Change programme which consists of 5 workshop and training weekends all over Ireland. I will be leading the weekend sessions, facilitating the discussions and inspiring and coaching the participants to support each other in realising their vision for Ireland. Weniger anzeigen

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  Social Impact Lab

  Jul 2012 - Jan 2013

  Social Entrepreneur

  I am currently starting up a new social enterprise combining p2p adult education and community development in Germany. I am hoping to soon join IQ Consult's Social Impact Lab Startup Support Programme.

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  BürgerUni

  Jan 2013 - Jun 2015

  Founder

  Together with a local community organisation in Berlin, I have been piloting the BürgerUni approach to peer-2-peer education. Based on a thorough community skills survey, our initial pilot in 2013 demonstrated that interactive, social learning amongst peers can be a powerful tool for connecting people from different social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. We are now looking to continue the BürgerUni in this neighborhood and help other organisations set one up in their area.

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  Minor e.V.

  Jun 2013 - Nov 2013

  Migration Researcher and Project Manager

  Together with a team at Minor e.V. I am running a research project about contemporary labour migration into Germany from different European countries. An ageing population in Germany means that German companies of all sizes are looking increasingly to attract labour migrants from Southern and Eastern Europe because they face such severe labour shortages at home. Supported by the Federal Agency for Migration and Refugess and the Senate of Berlin we are conducting a number of different research studies to identify the main integration challenges this group of migrant is facing as well as best-practice methods for supporting the effective social and professional integration of labour migrants in Germany. Weniger anzeigen

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  Synapse Weimar

  Jun 2013 - Sept 2013

  Partnership Facilitator

  I helped set up and cement an international partnership between a German organisation and a new Swedish partner organisation in Stockholm, who want to work together in the delivery of an EU-funded initiative to give disadvantaged youths the opportunity to experience the advantages of international work experience.

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  Minor – Projektkontor für Bildung und Forschung

  Nov 2013 - now

  Migration and Digitisation Lead Researcher and Department Manager
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  Civic Lab

  Feb 2014 - Jun 2022

  Freelance Consultant

  I am an internationally experienced freelance researcher, facilitator and project manager with a passion for developing participative solutions to long-standing social and civic issues in local neighbourhoods and communities.I work together with organisations, institutions, networks and communities to research needs, develop ideas, raise funds, implement and evaluate innovative social projects.http://www.civic-lab.org

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  La Red - Vernetzung und Integration e. V.

  Apr 2014 - Jan 2014

  Projektmanager and Community Organiser

  Project ManagementTeam CoordinationNetworking and Stakeholder Engagement in the Spanish community in BerlinWebsite Design - http://www.la-red.eu/

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  The Young Foundation

  Feb 2015 - Feb 2017

  Share to Know Partnership consultant

  Working with the Young Foundation in London, Alma Folkhögskola in Stockholm and Street College project in Berlin to deliver the Share to Know Partnership, which is a project funded by the Erasmus Plus programme of the European Commmission. The partnership focusses on good practice exchange and developing new peer-to-peer education methods for engaging NEET young people in education.