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Benefits for Employees in Germany

Everything about private and professional life at Welthungerhilfe

We offer our employees a wide variety of benefits. This is an overview of the benefits available to employees in Germany.

Onboarding

We warmly welcome all new employees and offer an extensive, cross-departmental induction week at the start of their employment at Welthungerhilfe.

Induction

We offer all new employees extensive onboarding weeks, where they gain their first insight into the organizational processes of Welthungerhilfe. This is followed by an additional familiarization period in the respective departments, where they learn how things work in their area of speciality.

Remuneration, Salary Components, and Allowances

In addition to monthly remuneration, our employees can enjoy additional benefits such as bonuses, allowances, or contributions to capital formation.

All Benefits at a Glance

  • Customised wage scale
    Our gender-blind remuneration system is based on our own wage scale.
  • Capital-forming benefits
    We subsidise capital-forming benefits.
  • Annual bonus
    By decision of the Executive Board, we pay our employees an additional month's salary every year.
  • Company pension plan
    After two years of employment at Welthungerhilfe, employees are placed on a company pension plan that is 100 percent financed by Welthungerhilfe.
  • Jobticket (transit pass)
    Welthungerhilfe employees receive a discounted travel card that allows them to use buses and trains throughout the Rhein-Sieg transit system. Depending on where you live, the travel card can be expanded to include the Rhein-Ruhr transit system. For the Berlin office, Welthungerhilfe subsidises a ticket subscription for the buses and trains of the local public transport (öPNV).
  • Subsidisation of child care during business trips
    We subsidise child care costs incurred during business trips.
  • Child allowance
    Employees receive a monthly allowance for dependent children under the age of 15.
  • Computer glasses
    If necessary, we subsidise the purchase of a pair of computer glasses.

Professional Development

Welthungerhilfe takes the professional development of its employees seriously, providing the opportunities outlined below.

All Benefits at a Glance

  • Learning Management System (LMS)
    Our internal learning management platform "Einstein" offers you various opportunities for individual training - with new learning content every day!
  • Professional development opportunities
    We offer our employees opportunities for professional development in the form of in-house training sessions and external professional-development events.
  • Educational leave
    Welthungerhilfe employees are given up to five days’ paid leave every year for purposes of professional and political education.

Leave

In special cases, we grant our employees various special vacation days in addition to the regular annual leave. 

All Benefits at a Glance

  • Vacation leave
    For our employees in Bonn and Berlin working a five-day week, vacation leave amounts to 30 days.
  • Special leave
    Our employees are entitled to special paid leave to deal with certain family obligations (e.g. if a child falls ill, if a close relative urgently requires care, if a child is born, or if a first-degree relative dies).

Balancing Private and Professional Lives

Welthungerhilfe strives to enable its employees to maintain a healthy balance between their private and professional lives. 

All Benefits at a Glance

  • Working from home
    In principle, all employees can arrange with their respective superiors to work from home. This goes a long way towards reconciling private and professional life.
  • Flexible hours
    We offer our employees a flexible system that allows them to choose their working hours with a great deal of independence. The contractual working hours can be flexibly fulfilled between 6:00 and 21:00. There is no core time.
  • Parent-child room
    The parent-child room in Bonn offers employees the opportunity to bring their children to work if necessary and care for them during working hours.

Additional Benefits/Infrastructure

In addition to the company benefits, we offer other advantages and benefits that liven up our employees’ day-to-day working life and bring them together in a collegial atmosphere.

All Benefits at a Glance

  • Offices in Bonn–Bad Godesberg and Berlin Mitte
    Our offices in Bonn–Bad Godesberg and Berlin Mitte have great connections to the regional commuting network. Each is only a few minutes away from the city centre and local amenities.
  • Social events
    We stage annual events for our employees, such as parties in the summer, at Christmas, or for carnival. It is also possible to take part in athletic events as a group (e.g. Zero Hunger Run, Post-Marathon, corporate challenges, ICC Football Cup for NGOs in Bonn).
  • Choir
    We have our own choir that performs at internal events. The choir welcomes each new voice.
  • Relaxation room
    Our employees have access to a relaxation room. For a fee, you can make an appointment for a massage with a qualified masseuse.
  • Fresh fruit
    We promote healthy nutrition (organic and locally-sourced) by offering our employees fresh fruit every day.
  • Table football (foosball)
    In Bonn, our employees have access to a football table for use during breaks and for an occasional change in pace.

Voices of Welthungerhilfe

Lidia Aouba, Referentin für das Programm "Skill Up!", steht auf einer belebten Straße
Lidia Aouba (Expert "Skill Up!")

Due to my personal background I have always been very interested in intercultural work. When choosing a career, I already focused on development cooperation at an early stage. That's how I came to work for WHH. What interests me most about our work is how hunger and poverty can be fought through education and sustainability. Many colleagues abroad perform small miracles every day in difficult environments to achieve the zero hunger goal. There is still a long way to go, but I am happy that I can do my part.

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Josef Frei vor einer Karte zum WeltRisikoBericht, Bonn 2022.
Josef Frei, Advisor Safety and Security

I’ve been working for Welthungerhilfe for nine years now. My job is to ensure that the security system in each of our project countries works reliably at all times. To assess the situation, we evaluate the risks twice a year. The result is a scale on which countries are classified from ‘safe’ to ‘highly dangerous.’ On that basis I develop processes and procedures that enable our employees to work even in high-risk areas – continuing to provide vital support to the population.

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Porträtfoto von Anja Sailer
Anja Sailer (Head of Digital Transformation Office)

It is always inspiring to move people – through activities, campaigns, storytelling or education. There is so much power in people, sometimes they just need some support. Through my job I get to see both sides of our work: Meeting the fascinating people in our project countries as well as the hugely committed supporters and volunteers in Germany is very motivating. At Welthungerhilfe I really appreciate our open-door policy and that employees are trusted to manage their own work.

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Porträtfoto von Christopher Korb
Christopher Korb (Junior Expert MEAL & Data Management)

During my time as a Student Assistant at Welthungerhilfe in 2019, I was inspired by the variety of effective project approaches and the high level of commitment of my colleagues to contribute to the fight against hunger and poverty. In completing a trainee program at Welthungerhilfe, I myself get the opportunity to contribute to the vision of "One Planet - Zero Hunger". I particularly appreciate that I get to know our work both in Germany and in our country offices abroad. 

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Lidia Aouba, Referentin für das Programm "Skill Up!", steht auf einer belebten Straße
Lidia Aouba (Expert "Skill Up!")

Due to my personal background I have always been very interested in intercultural work. When choosing a career, I already focused on development cooperation at an early stage. That's how I came to work for WHH. What interests me most about our work is how hunger and poverty can be fought through education and sustainability. Many colleagues abroad perform small miracles every day in difficult environments to achieve the zero hunger goal. There is still a long way to go, but I am happy that I can do my part.

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Josef Frei vor einer Karte zum WeltRisikoBericht, Bonn 2022.
Josef Frei, Advisor Safety and Security

I’ve been working for Welthungerhilfe for nine years now. My job is to ensure that the security system in each of our project countries works reliably at all times. To assess the situation, we evaluate the risks twice a year. The result is a scale on which countries are classified from ‘safe’ to ‘highly dangerous.’ On that basis I develop processes and procedures that enable our employees to work even in high-risk areas – continuing to provide vital support to the population.

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Porträtfoto von Anja Sailer
Anja Sailer (Head of Digital Transformation Office)

It is always inspiring to move people – through activities, campaigns, storytelling or education. There is so much power in people, sometimes they just need some support. Through my job I get to see both sides of our work: Meeting the fascinating people in our project countries as well as the hugely committed supporters and volunteers in Germany is very motivating. At Welthungerhilfe I really appreciate our open-door policy and that employees are trusted to manage their own work.

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Porträtfoto von Christopher Korb
Christopher Korb (Junior Expert MEAL & Data Management)

During my time as a Student Assistant at Welthungerhilfe in 2019, I was inspired by the variety of effective project approaches and the high level of commitment of my colleagues to contribute to the fight against hunger and poverty. In completing a trainee program at Welthungerhilfe, I myself get the opportunity to contribute to the vision of "One Planet - Zero Hunger". I particularly appreciate that I get to know our work both in Germany and in our country offices abroad. 

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