Volunteering
Benefits of Volunteering
- Volunteering is good for your physical and mental health
- Volunteering builds the kinds of graduate attributes that employers are looking for
- Shaping graduates for life and work in the 21st century
| Generation 21 Graduates Demonstrate: | Volunteering Offers Opportunities To: |
| Leadership | Take active and key roles in organisations |
| Creativity | Stretch yourself intelectually |
| Enterprise | Develop and Demonstrate Initiative |
| Commitment | Prove your reliability and stricking power |
| Effective Communication | Improve key communication and social skills |
| Continuous Learning | Share skills and knowledge, learn from others |
| Problem Solving Ability | Become solution and action-focused |
| Engagement | Listen, understand, empathize and contribute |
| Flexibility | Develop transferable skills and responsiveness |
| Responsibility | Develop autonomy, personal responsibility |
| Cultural and Ethical Awareness | Engage with and learn from diverse groups |
| Employability | Embrace challenges for personal and professional development |
Volunteer Opportunities:
- Tutor-Introduction to Study Skills (time commitment: 5weeks, 2hrs per week)
- Support Tutor-Leaving Certificate History Project (time commitment:10-12 weeks, 1hr a week)
- Support Tutor-Irish (Leaving Certificate F, O, H Levels, Junior Certificate) (time commitment:10-12 weeks, 1hr a week)
- Support Tutor-Irish (Oral Leaving Certificate Examination F, O, H Levels) (time commitment: 8-12 weeks, 1hr a week)
- Support Tutor-French (Oral Leaving Certificate Examination O, H Levels) (time commitment: 8-12 weeks, 1hr a week)
- Support Tutor-Literacy,Numeracy, Information Technology Skills (time commitment: 4-12 weeks, 2.5 hrs per week)
- Facilitator-English Conversational Classes (time commitment:4-10 weeks, 1hr a week)
- IMac Training Manual/Resources (time commitment: 10-15 hours)
- Support Tutor - Information Technology Skills (time commitment: 4-10 weeks, 1-2 hours a week)
- Support Tutor - Information Technology Skills: Intergenerational Programme (time commitment: 5 weeks, 2 hours a week)
Would you like to offer your expertise and time to support DCU in the Community students? Please register your interest by emailing Joanna Ozarowska, Student Support and Access Officer, DCU in the Community. Email: joanne.ozarowska@dcu.ie
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