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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Finance Team
Other members of the Finance Team include the Sponsorship Director and the Assistant VP of Finance.
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High School Representative
As a High School Representative, you will be responsible for promoting SOS at your school and encouraging your peers to attend the Exam-AID sessions. You will work with the Marketing and Regional teams to design a marketing campaign that will fit your particular school and region.
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Internal/Recruitment Team
The VP will be assisted by the Tutor Coordinator, the Course Coordinator, and the HR and SOS Relations Coordinator.
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Logistics Team
There will be one Assistant VP of Logistics at each of the U of T campuses (St. George, Mississauga, Scarborough) and at York University.
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Marketing Team
Other members of the Marketing Team include the Director of IT and Graphic Design, the Director of Media Contacts, the Director of Partnership Development, the Director of Events, and general volunteers.
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Regional Team
You will work closely with the VP of Regional on supporting High School Representatives around the GTA.
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Tutor
Tutors are responsible for running SOS Exam Review sessions, leading students through the required material. To excel in this position you must possess a passion for teaching and be able to effectively communicate with peers. Tutors will be expected to finalize curriculum and packages for the tutoring sessions.
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Volunteer
As a volunteer, you will help run Exam-AID sessions, help the logistics team, support SOS in other areas, and be an important part of new SOS initatives.
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