Student service leadership opportunites
Posted on: 3/27/2015; Updated on: 3/27/2015By Student Editor
The Leadership and Service Center offers a variety of student leader opportunities in its service initiatives. They
are recruiting students who are passionate about service and social issues to serve
as service leaders or on our planning committees. Gain valuable skills and leadership
experiences while serving your fellow students and community!
All applications are due at midnight on April 12.
Service Saturday Site Leaders
Serve the Carolina community by serving as a peer leader for up to 200 students in
a half day of service. Once a month, students gather on a Saturday to pack food at
the Harvest Hope Food Bank, interact with residents at Agape Senior Assisted Living
facility, sort donations at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, do trail maintenance
at Belser Arboretum, and more. Site Leaders are required to attend all Service Saturday
programs during the academic year and be present at the event from 7:30 a.m.-1:30
p.m. Apply here.
Impact Leaders
An Impact Leader serves as a liaison to a community service agency in Columbia. Impact
Leaders will select an agency in conjunction with Leadership and Service Center staff
to serve at during the fall and spring semesters. Impact Leaders are responsible for
taking a group of seven to 15 students to engage in direct service with this agency
once a week in the fall and spring semesters for two to three hours of service. Apply
here.
Community Service Ambassadors
Community Service Ambassadors commit to serving 150 volunteer hours at a local non-profit
over the course of the 2014-2015 academic year. Leadership and Service Center staff
members will help students identify a non-profit based on the student’s specific interest
area and it will be their responsibility to work with that non-profit to determine
an appropriate project to complete during the year. Students will also engage in social
issue discussion with their fellow community service ambassadors twice a month and
make a capstone presentation about their project at the end of the year. Apply here.
MLK, Jr. Student Planning Committee
The purpose of the MLK, Jr., Week Student Planning Committee is to empower members
of the Carolina community to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy through
the Days of Service and the Event Series that take place during that week. If chosen
to be part of this Student Planning Committee, you would have the opportunity to develop
valuable leadership and programming skills, while being an integral part of celebrating
20 years of honoring Dr. King’s legacy through service at the University of South
Carolina! Apply here.
Ignite Student Taskforce
The Ignite Student Taskforce was created in order to empower students to plan and
implement educational, service, and awareness events and initiatives throughout the
academic year, as we attempt to bring various local, national, and global issues to
light and identify ways to address them. The Ignite Task Force gives students the
opportunity to develop valuable leadership and programming skills while planning these
programs and becoming more aware of the different ways in which they can be more active
in their communities, their country, and the world. Apply here.
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