VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
If you have time to share your supply chain expertise with a non-profit organization that needs it, see the opportunities listed here.
Share Supply Chain Expertise with Students
Junior Achievement of Canada
Junior Achievement programs are delivered free of charge to students ranging from grade 3 to grade 12. Volunteers provide training and expertise to more than 230,000 students each year. By linking with business volunteers and creating programs that are certified by educators, JA is able to bring business to life for young people, opening their eyes to career opportunities.
Volunteers facilitate JA's easy-to-deliver, hands-on programs, through which they can not only help youth discover their skills and talents, but also further their personal and professional development.
The CSCSC has partnered with JA Canada to get the word about supply chain career opportunities to students across Canada. Find out more.
Help Newcomers Develop Canadian Careers
1. Mentoring Partnership Program, MicroSkills – Toronto
Through this program, skilled newcomers are matched with mentors based on their shared educational background, similar work experience and common career goals, and are helped with:
- Understanding Canadian workplace culture
- Establishing professional networks
- Improving their professional terminology
- Gathering information on local industries and potential employers
- Finding employment or job-training/placement opportunities
- Developing their self-marketing and confidence-building techniques
Participants also receive support and follow-up from a mentoring coach during and after the mentoring period.
For more information, contact:
Shanti Dhoré
Mentoring Coach
Community MicroSkills Development Centre
Centre of Excellence for Women and Newcomers
Toronto, Ontario
phone: 416-247-7181, ext. 2327
sdhore@microskills.ca
2. Workplace Connections, MOSAIC – Vancouver
Help a skilled immigrant settle into professional life in Canada through this volunteer program that matches skilled immigrants with Canadian professionals in an informal mentoring relationship for three months.
This is a great volunteer opportunity if you:
- Have an interest in other cultures
- Enjoy building relationships
- Like to coach and encourage others
- Enjoy a commitment with flexible times
Partners discuss workplace culture and professional issues. Mentors help their partners gain confidence in job search, explore career options, practice interview skills and build professional networks. While newcomers clearly benefit by having a skilled peer to help them, mentors also gain through a mentoring relationship: they learn about other cultures, develop relationships that truly make a difference, and help newcomers succeed.
Partners spend just a few hours each week together for about three months. Meeting times and place are flexible.
For more information, contact:
Astarte Sands
MOSAIC Workplace Connections
Vancouver, B.C.
phone: 604-254-9626, ext. 483
mentors@mosaicbc.com
