Last week Raul outlined a few different volunteering opportunities around campus. If that piqued your interest and you want to find out what other opportunities exist, read on!

1. UBC Residence Life – Are you interested in a wide range of activities and want to help fellow students? Being a residence advisor is a multi-faceted position with a broad scope of requirements, including planning programs, providing peer support and more. While applications have now closed for these positions, there are other ways you can get involved in the residence community. Through the residence councils, you could get elected into a representative position that involves planning events, large and small.

2. UBC Recreation – Are you more of a sporty type? UBC Recreation organizes all UBC intramural leagues, special sporting events (e.g. Day of the Longboat) and manages the student gym (the Bird Coop). UBC Rec offers a variety of positions such as event staff, referees, marketing, logistics and others. This will allow you to combine your interest in sports with your other skills and helping you gain a sense of satisfaction from helping provide recreation opportunities to other students. They also host Storm the Wall, which is hailed as an unofficial UBC graduation requirement.

3. UBC Student Leadership Conference – Would you enjoy planning a large conference? If so, the UBC Student Leadership Conference (SLC) might be the place for you. This is one of the largest student-run conferences in North America and offers the opportunity to see keynote speakers such as Luca “Lazylegz” Patuelli and Sarah Kay among others. There are a range of opportunities to help out including finance, logistics, marketing and more. Applications are currently open.

4. AMS – Maybe student government is more your forte? The AMS is the student governing body in charge of a large number of student services and businesses, offering everything from affordable food to the U-Pass. The nominations for the executive positions are now over, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways for you to get involved. There are numerous volunteer or paid positions still available in the different arms of the AMS.

As you can see there are a variety of opportunities available across campus and you’re sure to find one to fit your schedule and interests! Take the time while you are studying to give back to the community and get involved and you might be rewarded in ways you never expected.

– Ivan Yastrebov, Communications & Marketing Assistant

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