student leadership & volunteer program

Volunteer Opportunities

Once you have completed the online registration form your name will be added to the SSAA volunteer database and you will be advised of volunteer opportunities as they arise. These opportunities may include:

Orientation

• Administration: design posters or flyers, maintain student volunteer database
• Event Management: assisting in the setting up of the event
• Food Handling: cooking BBQ's, hand out drinks
• Promotions: hand out merchandise, event promotions, handing out flyers or merchandise
• Orientation Hosts: conducting campus tours
• Assisting SSAA Staff: Scavenger hunt, IT mentoring which includes hot to use Blackboard and how to set up Web Mail, etc.

Check the activities calendar for details on activities and events at your campus. Contact the relevant SSAA Clubs and Activities Officer to get involved. Visit: myssaa.com.au/connect/contact-ssaa

Faculty or Schools Administration Duties

• Filing
• Maintaining database
• Promotions
• Food and beverage service
• Orientation hosts and welcoming parties
• Ad Hoc duties

When volunteer opportunities become available, students will be notified by email.

Events and Activities

• Assisting at lunch time events
• Setting up
• Promotions
• Admin
• Distribution
• Adding notices to SSAA noticeboards

Check the activities calendar for upcoming activities and events.

Please note: Volunteer opportunities will be emailed to students.

Advisory Groups, for postgraduate and international students

• Peak representative groups for students at Swinburne
• International and Postgraduate
• Organise events and activities for students
• Participate in focus groups and forums
• Be a point of contact for international or postgraduate students with feedback about their course, student life on campus and academic issues.

For information on how to get involved in the Advisory Groups please contact volunteer@swin.edu.au

Academic Panels

• Students are trained to sit on progress review hearings and panels to act as the student representative when hearing student cases

Students interested in volunteering for academic hearings and panels, please contact volunteer@swin.edu.au

Interested in student representation?

• Elections are held annually for various Swinburne and SSAA boards and committees.

If you are interested in student representation and want to find out more about student elections visit Swinburnes Elections webpage: www.swinburne.edu.au/corporate/registrar/elections

Student elected to boards and committees are then offered support and training by SSAA so they can fulfil their role with confidence and knowledge of where their position fits within the overall Swinburne structure.

Elected students are collectively referred to as the Student Consultative Network (SCN). These students meet regularly to discuss issues that have been raised by their relevant cohort and to debrief about their role as student representatives. SCN participants are an integral part of the SSAA Student Leadership and Volunteer Program and are recognised for their contribution to the Swinburne community with a Vice Chancellors Leadership Program certificate and an SSAA scholarship (if the elected position does not have an honorarium attached).

Committees, Boards and Consultative Groups

• Student are elected to committees and boards and are given training by SSAA on their roles and responsibilities as a board or committee member
• Develop leadership skills in roles recognised and respected throughout the Swinburne community
• Gain valuable insight into the workings of the University
• When required students elected to boards and committees are briefed by SSAA staff on the background to board and committee papers
• Participate on Swinburne Boards and Committees- provide feedback from a student perspective
• Opportunity to positively effect student life and student study
• Connect with fellow Swinburne students and staff.

SLVP BASIC REQUIREMENTS AND ELIGIBILITY

Students must complete a minimum of 15 hours before they are eligible for an SSAA SLVP certificate, unless they are an SCN student, before they will be offered training, workshops and other benefits. Student who are part of the SCN must fulfil their scholarship requirements, but are automatically part of the SLVP and will receive a Vice Chancellors Leadership Program certificate if fulfilling all of the requirements of their elected position and the scholarship conditions attached to these positions.
Students are offered more training, workshops and benefits dependent on the hours of volunteer service they have verified using their completed logsheets. Only hours of volunteer service that are processed by the SSAA SCN officers by the due date of the logsheets will count towards training, workshops and other program benefits.

Students completing 40 or more hours of volunteer service in any year will be eligible to receive a certificate signed by the Vice Chancellor as part of the Vice Chancellors Leadership Program. SCN students fulfilling the requirements of SCN scholarships will be eligible in their leadership role to receive a Vice Chancellors Leadership Program certificate.

Students who demonstrate outstanding commitment to the values of leadership and volunteering will be eligible to be awarded the Student Leadership and Volunteer Program Student Leader of the Year or Student Volunteer of the Year Awards and prizes at the annual SLVP End of Year Celebration.
Only currently enrolled Swinburne University of Technology students are eligible to partake in the Student Leadership and Volunteer Program.

Only hours completed during the logsheet periods are included in any one year as part of the Program. Hours of volunteer service accumulated outside of the logsheet periods will not count towards the Program in the following or preceding year.

International students please note:

It is important to ensure that you are following what your student visa allows you to do. The Department of Immigration and Citizenship requires that, "If you are doing voluntary or unpaid work you must apply for Permission to Work. It is included in the limit of 20 hours per week." For more information, visit the DIAC website at www.immi.gov.au