Social Impact Leads

 
 

Who are Social Impact Leads?

Our Social Impact Leads (also known as Studio Leads) are a huge part of the magic behind UniCrew and the wider mahi of the Social Impact Studio. They bring a powerful blend of creativity, energy and passion to all our mahi. Every year, we are grateful to spend time with this motley crew of student volunteers made up of different year groups, academic disciplines and lived experiences. The role of Social Impact Lead is a year long commitment.

SOCIAL IMPACT LEGENDS

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What do they do?

Social Impact Leads engage other students with purpose. What this looks like differs for each student - it might be introducing them to the roles on Priceless, inviting someone to a Good Deed and Feed, or collaborating with another group to cook up something completely new!

Our Social Impact Leads get to lead community-based events and programmes, have the chance to design, implement and evaluate initiatives, and get a deep insight into the community sector.

  • There are up to 3 positions for students to organise and host the monthly Global Citizens Cafés, which are intentionally cosy speaker series on topics with global relevance. The programme is aligned with the Matariki Global Citizenship Programme, an initiative of the Matariki Network of Universities (MNU), which includes 7 unis worldwide.

  • GDAFs are one-off events where we organise a bus full of students to do good work of some kind in Dunedin. After the mahi, we enjoy a shared lunch. GDAFs have often been a planting day with the HALO project out at a stunning Dunedin beach. GDAF needs 3 leads to welcome and host the students and lead the mahi.

  • Be a Mate trips are smaller group experiences (about 8-10 students) to various community organisations around town. Great if large groups aren’t your thing. Excellent if you’re looking for one-off volunteer experiences to fit into a busy time table or just to dip your toe into new activities.

  • Created in collaboration with Alzheimer’s Otago, Minds Together is a buddy programme for people with early stage dementia. MT needs 2 leads to run the programme including recruiting and training uni buddies, liaising with university departments, communicating with Alzheimer’s Otago, and coordinating the sessions.

  • Each year we hold a speaker event like On Purpose that invites students to hear from some social impact legends who do impact and community in their own awesome way. We need a handful of leads to help plan and organise the event, 3 interviewers, and all leads to help on the night.

  • Reading Oasis is about sharing your love of reading with children. The programme needs 2 leads to manage the recruitment, training and rostering of the volunteer readers.

 
 

We love people who are committed to upholding our values of community, creativity, empathy and collaboration.