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Your role:

As a Halloween Trick-or-Treat Event Tour Guide, you will help lead students around ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s Surrey Campus. Tour Guides will promote and personalize the university to community guests – youth, their families, and teachers as well as other guests to campus. Through guided Halloween themed tours of the campus, Tour Guides will provide visitors with an overview of life at the university while helping children collect candy. Above all, Tour Guides will facilitate a fun activity in a safe environment. Tour Guides are also welcome to dress up in an appropriate costume for the event.

Tour Guides will receive training on topics like youth management strategies and public speaking. Tour Guides will also receive a script to help them provide the tour to community guests.

YOU can make higher education more accessible by facilitating a FUN Halloween experience for kids! As an ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV student, your presence alone provides a connection to higher education that can actually make a concrete difference in a young student’s life. You are real, accessible, and fun!

In this role, you will:
• Represent the university as a positive ambassador;
• Develop effective verbal communication skills;
• Develop your problem solving skills;
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills;
• Work effectively with diverse age groups.

Benefits:

• Gain experience working with school-aged children;
• Gain public speaking skills;
• Gain demonstrable leadership experience;
• Have the opportunity to engage with other ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV students and volunteers;
• Earn Student Ambassador Program credit on your co-curricular record.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in OR graduated from an undergraduate degree, graduate degree, or Continuing Studies program at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV (¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Alumni are also welcome!);

• Excellent oral communication skills;

• Strong interpersonal and conflict management skills;

• Friendly and welcoming demeanor;

• Excellent time-management skills;

• Willingness and ability to guide children;

• Previous experience working with children will be considered an asset;

• Volunteers must attend a mandatory orientation session.
  

How to apply:

If you are interested in this opportunity, please click on the 'Apply Now' button below. You will then be invited to complete a short pre-screening survey before proceeding onto the next steps.

Deadline to apply: Filled early