For those who love people, and who love challenges – UKECharisma is the place for you. After an extremely successful 2011 with two superb projects that achieved every objective we had set for ourselves, we are looking for a new team to take the helm!
UKECharisma is a volunteering network set up by students, for students (any student studying at a UK university or an affiliate (ie twinning) is welcome to join) to come to Malaysia to volunteer during the summer.
Projects are 2 weeks long, with food and accommodation provided.
Treasure Hunt at SK Seri Setia (Education)
A happy health awareness team!
If you are interested, please send your CV as well as a cover letter detailing what interests you about UKECharisma and what you feel you can bring to the table, for any of the following positions, once you satisfy the following criteria:
1) Must be a student at a university able to provide proof of student status (or a recent graduate). It doesn’t matter what level of study you are (Degree, Masters, PhD etc)
2) Must be able to speak/write good English.
3) For the Director and the Assistant, for ease of organising, you should be Malaysian. All other roles are open to students of any nationality.
4) Commitment to choose dates for the projects during which you will be available to attend activities. This is very important. Last year we had many people who were initially supportive pull out because they chose internship opportunities over UKECharisma. We hope that there will not be a repeat of this now that you have earlier commitment dates to UKECharisma, and are able to choose project dates on your own. If you think you won’t be available for a long period during the summer holidays, please specify this in your application.
UKECharisma Director
-What we want is someone who believes in the reasoning behind UKECharisma, as well as the neutral, efficient and friendly way we run our projects. You need to be good at management, good at speaking and presenting yourself to people, have a good command of English and Malay, have an idea about your home city in Malaysia, wherever it is, as well as Kuala Lumpur, and be able to spend the time to run the projects (you get to choose the dates, so you better be there ;)). Don’t be afraid to apply for Director, because we welcome courage and look up to people who take risks and give things their best shot.
I know this position sounds ridiculously daunting, but no fear. You have support. Director of UKECharisma has 24/7 methods of contacting the UKECharisma Advisor – Angie, the previous director – for any queries or troubles you might be having. You’re not alone and we don’t expect you to be running everything from your own head. We have reports of this year’s project, contacts, etc all sorted out for you already so you have minimal work to do in terms of running the project, because a precedence has already been established.
UKECharisma Asst. Director (New!)
-While we didn’t have an Assistant Director last year, we are experimenting with getting an assistant director this year to help spread the workload around and make sure at least one of you will be available to work with the project at any one time. You’ll need the same skills as you would need for the Director, and because we like brave souls we would probably prefer if you tried for Director as well instead of applying straight for Assistant Director – it saves you having to explain why you’d like to go for assistant instead of director anyway! :) Plus, we have high standards! :)
UKECharisma Sponsorship Director (and Asst)
-For the sponsorship directors we would like someone who has experience doing P&L sheets and budgeting, as well as someone who is good with keeping track of expenditure and donations, and has some knowledge of how to sort out payments (in and out). We’d like you to be on hand to divide the cash amongst the participants and make sure the project leaders have less to do in terms of financial planning. Otherwise, all the directors should be pitching in and helping out the UKECharisma Director as much as possible, with whatever needs doing.
UKECharisma Recruitment Director (and Asst)
-For the recruitment director we need someone with a good command of microsoft excel and a reliable presence on the internet – to answer questions as well as confirm and organise applications and rejections, as well as sort out personal details of each volunteer, and making sure each volunteer has submitted all the details we need to contact them/verify their student status etc. You’ll need to compile and email various people, volunteers as well as universities, so a good command of English is the way to go for this position as well.
UKECharisma Publicity Director (and Asst)
-The publicity director needs to be creative and preferably have some knowledge about advertising and online presence. You’ll need to update the webpage a lot, take photos/draw things, design the T shirts, as well as come up with publicity blurbs to send out to various universities/societies/forums. It sounds like a lot, but most of these things only need to be done once! :) For the rest of the project your role is to make sure the media is contacted about the projects, as well as make sure there are good photographic documentations of what is going on. If you come up with a design campaign, you can use the same design on the webpage, the T shirts, the flyers etc, so it’ll be a good start. :)
The deadline to submit is Friday the 14th October 2011, at 12.00 midnight UK time. But because we love students so much, we understand that you don’t want to be typing CVs during Freshers Week, so we’ll delay the application submissions for first year students until the 21st October 2011, also at 12.00 midnight UK time.
If you have any questions regarding the roles and duties of the directors, please email us at ukecharisma@gmail.com.Our promise is to get back to you within 24 hours! :)
UKECharisma. Lead. Live. Learn.
