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The Sponsoring and Partnerships team is dedicated to securing financial support and building strategic alliances for the CYH's events. They focus on event sponsorships, ensuring that the CYH's activities can be executed in a financially stable way, reaching as many people as possible. This team plays a crucial role in maintaining sponsor relationships and seeking new opportunities for sustainable growth and influence. 

The Logistics Team ensures the smooth organization of events such as the YHS, the Humanitarian Challenge and the Humanitarian Enrichment. Their responsibilities include venue selection, coordinating food, beverages, and technical equipment. Volunteers in this team gain valuable skills in event planning and logistics while contributing to impactful humanitarian efforts. 

The Programming team is responsible for developing and executing engaging content for CYH events. They work to create inspiring, thought-provoking experiences that reflect the voice of young people and address critical issues within the humanitarian sector. In the long term, the team aims to build the organization’s strategy and explore underrepresented topics in the field. 

The Internal Community Team focuses on building a strong, supportive, and connected environment within CYH. The team organizes internal gatherings that bring members together beyond their day-to-day work, such as the annual Kick-off, Circle Days, and other internal events where the whole team can meet, reflect, and strengthen relationships across departments. 

In addition, the team helps ensure that members stay connected even when they are based in different cities. This includes facilitating communication channels such as WhatsApp groups and encouraging local meetups and social gatherings in places where CYH members are active, such as Zurich, St. Gallen, New York, and other locations. 

The team also creates spaces that allow members to engage more deeply with the values behind CYH’s mission. Formats such as the Unlock Your Inner Humanitarian workshop invite volunteers to reflect on their motivations, values, and ways of living humanitarian principles in their everyday lives. Through these initiatives, the Internal Community Team strengthens relationships, motivation, and a shared sense of purpose within the CYH community. 

The External Community Team focuses on building and nurturing the wider CYH network. This includes maintaining relationships with participants, alumni, partners, and supporters who engage with CYH through events, programs, or collaborations. 

The team also works to ensure that CYH is visible and present in relevant external spaces. This includes coordinating CYH’s participation at conferences, partner events, and community gatherings, for example through marketplace stands or representation at events such as the International Cooperation Forum. By maintaining these connections and ensuring a strong presence in diverse settings, the team helps expand the reach of CYH and strengthen the link between the humanitarian world and the next generation. 

The People and Culture team helps shape the future of the Circle of Young Humanitarians by building a strong and motivated team. This team focuses on recruiting new team members, strengthening collaboration, and improving internal processes so that our engagement remains meaningful and sustainable. The HR Team ensures the smooth recruitment, onboarding and offboarding of volunteers. Working closely with the board and the directors, People and Culture helps turn commitment into ideas and impact. This team is ideal for people who want to actively shape a growing organisation and live humanitarian values through collective action.

The Organisational Infrastructure Team contains supporting functions for both IT and the CRM. They ensure the technical smooth running of the CYH as well as the development of the technological infrastructure as the CYH grows. 

The Inventory Team ensures the systematic storage, transport and use of all CYH materials, ensuring that all activities can be planned and executed. Volunteers within the Inventory Team will closely collaborate with all departments. 

The Skill Activation & Impact Measurement Team is in charge of measuring and displaying the impact of the CYH's initiatives. They work in close collaboration with all departments to collect impact stories and record and illustrate them for external communication. They furthermore collect and interpret data, and produce reports to ensure that all of the CYH's activities contribute to its overall mission. 

Supports the Circle of Young Humanitarians in strengthening our digital infrastructure. You will help improve our collaboration tools, CRM usage, and website, making sure our growing community can work efficiently and securely. You ought to have experience with M365 collaboration and Swiss data protection.

The Marketing and Communications team is the voice of CYH, amplifying our message and promoting our events to reach and engage wider audiences in creative and innovative ways. The team manages our social media channels, keeps the website updated, prepares engaging newsletters, and supports media outreach. With strengths in storytelling, graphic design, photography, and video, the team combines creativity with strong organizational and communication skills. As the CYH’s megaphone, this team plays a key role in connecting the humanitarian world with the next generation. 

The Merch Team is responsible for creating, launching, and promoting the merchandise. The team designs ideas for products, works on branding and visuals, and develops strategies to share and sell the merch within and beyond the community. By combining creativity with promotion, the team helps spread CYH’s message in a fun and visible way while strengthening the identity of the community. 

The Fundraising Team is responsible for securing the core financial resources that enable the Circle of Young Humanitarians (CYH) to grow its impact and sustain its programs. The team develops and manages relationships with foundations, individual donors, and strategic partners, ensuring a diversified and stable funding base. Through grant applications, donor engagement, and targeted fundraising initiatives, the team identifies and pursues opportunities that align with the CYH's mission and long-term goals.

In addition to fundraising strategy and donor outreach, the team manages the full donor journey—from initial contact to long-term relationship building. This includes organizing fundraising events such as the Fundraising Dinner, maintaining donor communication, and ensuring transparency and accountability in reporting impact. By cultivating meaningful partnerships and demonstrating the CYH's value, the Fundraising Team plays a key role in enabling the continued development of programs, community initiatives, and innovation within the association. 

The CYH Lab Team develops and delivers CYH’s hackathon-based co-creation programs in collaboration with corporate partners and clients. The team identifies and maps potential partner organizations, builds relationships with companies interested in purpose-driven engagement, and designs Circle Lab experiences that connect corporate expertise with real challenges faced by the humanitarian sector or the CYH respectively. Working closely with CYH’s hackathon and innovation expert, the team prepares and structures each lab, translating social challenges into clear problem statements and meaningful collaboration formats. 

In addition to partner outreach and program design, the team facilitates the CYH Lab experience itself. Members continuously develop their own expertise in hackathon facilitation, co-creation methods, and collaborative innovation, enabling them to guide interdisciplinary teams through fast-paced problem-solving processes—from ideation to early prototypes. Through these labs, the team creates value both for participating companies—through purpose-driven team engagement and skill development—and for CYH, by generating innovative ideas, strategic insights, and practical solutions that strengthen the organization’s initiatives and community impact. 

The  Finance function ensures the financial sustainability and responsible management of the Circle of Young Humanitarian’s resources. It oversees organizational budgeting, financial processes, and planning. In close collaboration with the Fundraising team, the Finance function supports the team directors in developing the budgets for each department, ensuring that spending remains aligned with the organization’s overall financial framework. Additionally, the function maintains and regularly updates CYH’s financial models, tracks expenses across projects and teams, and provides financial oversight to ensure accuracy and accountability. 

The Finance function also serves as a strategic partner to the leadership and board, advising on financial questions for strategic decisions, and the feasibility of new initiatives. Through strong collaboration with all departments, the Finance function plays a key role in enabling CYH’s programs and ensuring that the organization can operate responsibly while pursuing its long-term mission and impact. 

As the CYH grows, the Finance function may expand to include additional support to assist with maintaining financial models, supporting the budgeting process across teams, and helping track expenses and financial data.