Volunteer Hot Spots
We’re looking for volunteers immediately to help in the following areas. If you’re interested, please contact us today:
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Human Resources Coordinator
Responsible for hiring volunteer tutors and executive persons.
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Marketing Coordinator
The Marketing Coordinators are responsible for driving various marketing initiatives to drive awareness and promote your chapter’s initiatives. To excel in this position you must have a gift for communication and be highly self motivated. Here’s what’s involved:
• Plan, develop, create, deploy campaigns including print and online (Facebook, SOS website etc.)
• Track and analyze campaign success and participation drivers for Cram attendees.
• Manage your chapter’s website, ensuring that it is up to date, and highly informative.
• Communicate with SOS executives and other volunteers to ensure marketing material is accurate and up to date.
• Experience in image programs (Photoshop) is a tremendous asset! -
Sponsorship Coordinator
Solicit sponsorship from the local community to help cover costs and to generate additional support for the target community/project of your volunteer outreach trip.
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Tutors
Tutors are responsible for running SOS’s Exam Review sessions, leading students through the covered material. To excel in this position you must possess a passion for teaching and be able to effectively communicate with peers. Here’s what's involved:
• Create the study materials / presentations for the session, as well as compile the take-home package for the students.
• Engage students effectively during the Review Session and confidently respond to questions 'on the spot'.
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VP External Affairs
-Develop partnerships to companies, businesses, and organizaitons outside the university.
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VP Internal Affairs
-Create and maintain relationships with other student groups on campus
-Develop partnerships with other clubs and societies to create more fundraising opportunities
Volunteering with SOS creates waves of positive results for both fellow classmates and students around the world. For those who donate their time, being a part of SOS provides valuable skill development and unique travel opportunities. Volunteer positions are guaranteed to provide amazing experience for any co-op, summer, or full time position. SOS is a highly motivated and rapidly growing organization which connects volunteers with a network of like minded students and business contacts who support each other's success.
Here are a few thoughts from past volunteers:
"Participating in both the fundraising aspect of the trip and the trip itself was one of the best experiences I had as a University student. SOS allowed me to see at first hand the difference I was making." ' Holly Burton, Tutor and Volunteer Trip Participant, '07
"I found (the trip) particularly rewarding since I put in a lot of work pre-trip through tutoring Accounting and Business courses. My role felt much more important to not only raise the money on behalf of SOS, but also take that money and transform it into solid structures, laptops and smiling Belizeans." Lesley Hirano, Tutor and Volunteer Trip Participant, '07
"The Belize experience definitely helped me step outside of my own everyday life and see firsthand the hardships and difficulties communities in other regions of the world deal with. Yet, what I learned through the experience, and something that I would never have known had I not gone on the trip, was that this small community in Belize enjoyed life to the fullest, the company of family and friends and what little they had, in spite of their tribulations." - Vivek Sarma, Volunteer Trip Participant, '08