Leadership opportunities
Imagine being a resource for students. Impart the impact of your experience to your peers.
Now that you've returned, do you have great stories to share about your international learning experience, whether it was Exchange, a Group Study Program, or International Service Learning? Do have an appetite to continue meeting people from different cultures? Or would you prefer to specifically help returned or incoming Exchange students readjust to life at UBC?
Each year, we offer a variety of volunteer and leadership opportunities for you to get involved and gain resume-building skills.
Pre-Departure Facilitator
Go Global is recruiting students to join the pre-departure student facilitator team. Student facilitators work together to develop and facilitate learning sessions in the upcoming spring pre-departure program. This is a unique and rich opportunity to reconnect with your exchange experience while also gaining valuable skills.
What you will gain:
- Skills in facilitation and curriculum development
- Learn about intercultural communication and experiential learning
- Connect with other student leaders on campus
- Presentation skills
Participation requirements:
- Facilitate 2 – 3 1.5 hr pre-departure sessions (occurring between March 5– 16)
- Attend 3 1.5 hour Facilitator Training sessions
- Meet with students to further shape our sessions (approx. 2 hrs per week for 3 weeks)
To learn more about this opportunity, attend a meeting at Go Global Friday, January 7 at 12:30 at International House Upper Lounge. RSVP by January 5 by emailing go.global@ubc.ca
Ambassador Program
Ambassadors are official Go Global student representatives and give presentations about their experiences abroad, inform students and professors about our programs and application deadlines, and represent us at booths and campus events. Open to past participants from all Go Global programs. Apply by July 15, 2011.
Exchange Peer Educators
Build on your experience abroad by envisioning and organizing events and projects that encourage other returned and incoming students to reflect on and make the most of their Exchange experience. Exchange Peer Educators work as a team of four students and two staff advisors. Open to past Exchange participants. Apply by July 15, 2011.
International Peer Program (IPP) Senior Peer and Group Leader Positions
Did anyone go out of their way to help you while you were abroad? Now that you’re returning to UBC, perhaps you’d like to make connections with incoming Exchange students at UBC. The International Peer Program (IPP) is looking to recruit two Group Leaders and 10 Senior Peers to be in the IPP Exchange student cohort. Meet up with new international students, present academic workshops, and organize social and cultural events. Open to past participants from all Go Global programs. Apply by August 15, 2011.
International Service Learning Student Leadership Team
Join the International Service Learning (ISL) Student Leadership Team to help shape the structure, purpose and activity of the ISL program for years to come. As a past ISL student, joining the ISL Student Leadership Team will allow you to help build a social network into the program fabric. Open to past ISL participants. Returned ISL students will be emailed about how to apply for this opportunity in the summer.
