Do you want to help Lead on Project day?
Apply to be a Project 2012 Team Lead Team Lead applications are closed.
Team Leads are The Project’s event staff. They are one of the most valuable pieces of this event, because it’s the Team Leads who are really in charge on event day! It’s a great opportunity for leadership experience, extra leadership, safety, and facilitator training, and for a bigger piece of the action on Project day!
For Project 2012, Team Lead positions will be available in the following areas:
1. FULL – Site Leaders (50-80) – Site leaders will manage all aspects of a work site, including: volunteer and site contact communication, volunteer safety, tools and supplies, completion of work at the site, pre/post shift volunteer reflections, site reports and pictures, and the overall volunteer work experience
2. FULL – Registration (10) – Registration Team Leads are responsible for organizing and staffing the check-in tables on event day, confirming/overseeing waiver signatures, distribution of t-shirts to volunteers, communication with bus drivers and bus Team Leads, providing work site maps/addresses to volunteers
3. FULL – Buses/Transportation (10) – Bus and Transportation Team Leads will be the main line of communication between registration and the site leaders, will have maps, information, lunches, and thank-you gifts for the bus drivers, will ride buses throughout the day to aid drivers and answer volunteer questions, and will distribute rider surveys after each shift.
4. General Information and Parking (20) – General Information Team Leads will be the first to answer all volunteer and community partner questions on event day. They will direct both on-foot and vehicle traffic near headquarters, make and hang all event signage, and welcome VIPs to the event.
5. Kick-off and VIP’s (10) – Kick-Off Team Leads will create displays, videos, and schedule for the kick-off program on event day, welcome VIPs to the event, host executive briefing for VIPs and press following the kick-off program, assemble and distribute press packets for the executive briefing.
6. FULL – Service Learning (10-20) – Service Learning Team Leads will host personalized pre/post event reflection sessions for student organizations who are volunteering at The Project, will attend a 5-part certified facilitator training series in preparation for these sessions, and will oversee reflection sessions on event day, including training Site Leaders in reflection prior to the event.
7. FULL – Tools and Supplies (5-10) – Tools and Supplies Team Leads will manage storage, acquisition, and return of tools for the event, manage tool distribution (check-out and return) of tools on event day, manage supply movement between sites and from headquarters, and maintain a system of communication between site leaders to allocate supplies.
8. Community Fair (5-10) – Community Fair Team Leads will help to plan and staff the Community Fair. Team Leads will help organize performers, vendors, and food distribution, will help with event set-up and breakdown, will answer attendee questions, run raffles and contests, and be a resource to all volunteers and event attendees.
