Become a Volunteer 

• student
• secretary
• marketing
• membership

Are you interested in getting more involved with OWIT Alberta? One way to do so is through volunteering to join a committee.

As you may know, a lot of very valuable work gets done at the committee level. It is a great way to become familiar with the organization, and hopefully interested in serving as a board member in the future.

Our current committees include:

• Marketing and Communications
• Membership
• Programs

Get Involved

We are always looking for dynamic, diverse individuals to assist in a number of areas including serving on the Board of Directors, volunteering for committee work and various special projects.

If you are interested in volunteering with us, or want to know more about current volunteer opportunities, email info@owitalberta.org.

We look forward to working with you in the near future.

Current Opportunities

Volunteers to support the above committees (especially marketing and communications; social media, public relations, graphic design, editing, etc)

Student Liaison:

• Recruit students to join OWIT
• Publicize OWIT events on campus
• Create a relationship between OWIT and the University (get applicable professors and administration involved), gaining support from the university community
•  Support campus outreach when we may offer educational type events
• Work on obtaining sponsorship or in-kind donations from the university community
• Perhaps get space on campus for events when needed
• Network with other OWIT student liaisons to support and share best case practices
•  Manage the student “street team” for online marketing and social media blasts (street team mentions OWIT on their facebook status and fees, twitter, etc) alongside the marketing chair -àhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_team

Secretary:

• Take attendance and minutes at our monthly meetings and distribute within a few days following the meeting
• Prepare documents for voting in new board members (bios, counting votes, etc)
• Send out snail mail to membership (communications committee handle all electronic communication)

Communications and Marketing

•  Create and manage new marketing materials and develop marketing strategy
•  Create and manage online marketing strategy including social media
• • Management of social media “street team” --à this is a little known marketing concept which can now be easily employed on twitter, facebook, etc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_team
  • This includes the management of our websites, social media accounts, and also public relations with other news media and community groups
•   Creates and manages production and distribution of all PR/mkt content such as a newsletter (which we are currently not doing and may not want to do yet)
• This is a very large portfolio and is expected to have the largest amount of volunteer involvement, one must enjoy managing a team to pull this one off.....as it is too much work for one individual

Membership and Volunteer Chair

• Membership retention
• •  Ensuring OWIT is offering value for the membership fee
  • Ensuring we know what type of services they want and making sure we deliver
• Membership development
• •  Creating a list of companies/individuals who we would like to target to join OWIT
  • Marketing to these potential members
• Volunteer Recruitment
• • With the assistance of the Volunteer Co-ordinator, recruit volunteers to assist in the other portfolios (especially communications and marketing, and event planning and delivery)