VOLUNTEER TESTIMONIALS

Julia Tsaltas
Data Analytics Lead
Taylor Stanbury
Mentorship Program Coordinator

Naíra Pearce
SWE 3P Coordinator

JOIN OUR TEAM
The Society of Women Engineers Toronto aims to catalyze the creation of supportive communities where women engineers feel enabled, empowered, and inspired. From programming to communications, we are entirely volunteer-run and we would love to have you on the team.

Interested in Volunteering?

Current open positions:
  • ​Industry Outreach Co-Director (Board position) 
    • Working closely with the current Industry outreach director to fullfill the following responsibilities:
    • Duty: connecting with industry groups and securing partners to support SWE TO programs through both in-kind donations and special collaborative events, and potentially growing to include reaching out directly to companies for partnership and financial sponsorship.
      • Identify potential partners into collaboration categories such as Professional organizations, Community groups, Businesses, Media,and Education-related groups
      • Create collaborations screening checklist to ensure mutually beneficial partnerships
      • Maintain existing SWE Toronto partner relationships.
      • Communicate potential program partnerships with SWE Speaks Program Director.
      • Search for grant opportunities and write and submit proposals.
      • Seek out potential venues for events.
      • Update sponsorship package and connect with companies to request financial sponsorship.
      • Manage committee of volunteers, hold monthly meetings with volunteers, assign tasks and develop volunteer skills.
    • Skills
      • Comfortable cold-calling and emailing potential speakers, partner organizations and sponsor companies.
      • Muse be able to work independently and exercise sound judgement to identify a beneficial opportunity.
      • Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, must be able to understand sponsors’ needs as well as maintain long-term relationships with partner organizations.
      • Must have strong organizational skills to be able to keep track of the program's pipeline of potential partnership candidates.
    • Time Commitment: Must be able to commit minimum 10 hrs/ month. Overall commitment 1 year (until 1st July 2023)
  • Industry Outreach General Volunteer
    • Identify potential partners through events, networking, benchmarking
    • Create documents and proposal for meeting/negotiations
    • Be the point of contact of current partner, aiming to create a closer relationship increasing the collaboration being SWE and the partner
    • Support Programs Committee on searching speakers and venues for events
    • Great opportunity to develop your communication skills and increase your network with women in STEM, professional associations and companies from different segments
  • Programs Committee - General Volunteer
    • Organizing events to allow engineering professionals to connect and engage in meaningful conversations, and build their support network by discussing personal and professional challenges in industry. At the SWE Programs Committee we hold regular events including SWE SPEAKS and Coffee Clubs.
    • After joining the Programs Committee and attending a few volunteer meetings you can take on specific volunteer roles and start your training.
  • Membership Evaluator
    • Coordinate with Membership Database Administrator regarding potential interview times.
    • Phone interview with prospective volunteers using questions from a shared drive. (To see if they would be a good fit for volunteering. Get to know the prospective volunteer through a conversation.)
    • Make notes and send them to the Membership Director with recommendations for volunteers to be added or not.
  • Mentorship Program Volunteers
    • Responsible for each program groups consisting of mentor and mentee
    • Facilitates group discussions and reports to Coordinator
    • Follows up with mentors and mentees regarding schedules
    • Assists Coordinator with event planning
    • Assists Coordinator with program planning and execution
    • Assists Coordinator with data collection and feedback at end of program
  • Coffee Club coordinator
    • Organizing events to allow engineering professionals to connect and engage in meaningful conversations, and build their support network by discussing personal and professional challenges in industry. At the SWE Programs Committee we hold regular events including SWE SPEAKS and Coffee Clubs.
    • After joining the Programs Committee and attending a few volunteer meetings you can take on specific volunteer roles and start your training.
    • More involved role, approximately 1 day of work per month.
    • Virtual/In person - will need to attend in person events. Approximately 1 per month.
    • Coordinator will help plan, schedule and run in-person coffee clubs. They will have the opportunity to develop their leadership and project management skills. They will work directly with us and other volunteers.
  • Zoom Coordinator/Facilitator 
    • Medium involvement, approximately 0.5-1 day of work per month
    • Virtual role - will need to attend virtual events
    • Zoom coordinator will be responsible for setting up and facilitating zoom calls.
  • Membership Database Administrator ​
    • Keep track of the volunteer application form responses
    • Follow up with potential quality volunteers based on needs of committees and schedule interviews with Evaluator
    • Update volunteer spreadsheet with new volunteer information​
  • EventBrite Coordinator
    • Creating SWE events on eventbrite and making sure about the accuracy of information.
    • Running event boosting campaigns on eventbrite in connection with other social media platforms.​
  • Linkedin Coordinator
    • Creating event invitations/descriptions
    • Posting on social media platform- LinkedIn
    • Creating captions, newsletters, posters, etc.
    • Using relevant hashtags
    • Participating in SWE events such as Coffee Clubs and Committee meetings
  • External newsletter editor
    • ​The newsletter editor will work closely with the communications team to ensure that the SWE community gets the most value out of the newsletters we send them. These mass emails typically include subjects such as: Upcoming events SWE updates Interesting news, opportunities and resources
    • Formatting this content in a manner which looks appealing, easy legibility/navigation and organized.
  • Internal newsletter editor
    • The newsletter editor will work closely with the communications team to ensure that the SWE community gets the most value out of the newsletters we send them. These mass emails typically include subjects such as: Upcoming events; SWE updates; Interesting news, opportunities and resource.
    • Formatting this content in a manner which looks appealing, easy legibility/navigation and organized.
  • Finance General Volunteer
  • SWE 3P Coordinator
    • The co-coordinator will work closely with the coordinator in creating the event description and agenda
    • In some events the co-coordinator may be the host of the online workshop
    • Show up for virtual meetings
    • Medium involvement, approximately 0.5 day of work per month
  • English Evaluator
    • The English evaluator will be in charge of writing a small report during the workshop about the speaker’s presentation. The small report should inform the strengths of the speech and what should be improved
    • Show up for virtual meetings
    • Small involvement, less than 0.5 day of work per month
If you would like to volunteer in another capacity,  please fill out the application form as well and we will get in touch to match your skills with the right portfolio. We would be thrilled to have you on the team!

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