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Youth Internships @the Hotspot Community Resource Centre
Our goal here at the Hotspot is to integrate youth work and volunteer opportunities into our core operations. All youth positions involve being part of a team that is providing support to the community members and local non profit groups that call or drop in to the Hotspot. Our job is make everyone welcome and to do our best to respond to requests and questions. Everyone goes through a comprehensive orientation and training period so that they can do this.
**** In order to qualify for these internships you must : be between 15 and 30 years of age , be a student currently enrolled in a post-secondary institution or a youth who has completed at least 1 post-secondary course or a student intending to return to school full time after the internship.
Internships are for 420 hours and pay $10/hour. Start date is ASAP - end date is March 31, 2010.
Wages may be higher for some positions based on available funding.
All positions report to the Hotspot Coordinator and are guided by volunteer mentors from our board and project committees. All youth internships involve additional responsibilities that vary from year to year based on what projects we are involved with and the specific needs of the Hotspot at the time. Assignments also depend on the interests, skills and aptitudes of the Youth that are hired. The core work involved in operating the Hotspot is roughly divided into the following jobs:
Volunteer Centre Coordination Assistant
· Recruit and register volunteers with an additional focus on Youth through the Squamish Community Youth Program· Carry out regular administrative tasks involved in keeping the Volunteer Centre Databases and website organized and up to date.
· Complete all tasks necessary to seek out, promote and advertise current volunteer opportunities and ultimately find volunteers to fill the positions
· Maintain communications and establish relations with community groups and volunteers
· Research other youth volunteering programs and come up with ways to improve and expand the engagement of local youth in volunteer work.
· Carryout the regular operational duties of the Hotspot including customer service, community resource referral, internal administration, maintenance and housekeeping.
Hotspot Resource Centre Worker
· provide primary support to the operation of the Hotspot public access computer lab and community resource and information drop- in centre programs.· Carryout the regular operational duties of the Hotspot including customer service, community resource referral, internal administration, maintenance and housekeeping
· Provide other services to the public including free computer tutoring
· Work on projects for Non-Profit Groups involving various administrative tasks, promotion, event planning, web design, technical support and much more.
· Provide support on a scheduled basis at our other public access locations
Technical Resource Worker
· The maintenance and expansion/upgrading of our lab networks;· Operation of our Reuse IT Computer recycling program;
· The maintenance and expansion/upgrading of our software and web/cms open source linux based systems
· Carryout the regular operational duties of the Hotspot including customer service, community resource referral, internal administration, maintenance and housekeeping
· Provide other services to the public including computer tutoring
· Provide support on a scheduled basis at our other public access locations