Friday, March 7, 2008

Aqua assistant

Location: Allambie Heights/Frenchs Forest

Our aqua fitness program helps adults with a disability improve flexibility, and increase independence and freedom in the water. The program runs on a Tuesday night for 2 hours and we would love to hear from people who are interested in a weekly or fortnightly commitment.

Training is provided.

For information contact: Sophie 9975 8405 or smarmont@tscnsw.org.au

Alcohol & drug group facilitator

Organisation: Mission Australia
Location: Various Sydney suburbs

Assist us 2-3 hours a week to run support groups for homeless men. You will have a counselling background or be a student looking for practical experience. Some relevant experience would be an advantage.

For information contact: Fiona 1800 110 578 or volunteering@missionaustralia.com.au

Thursday, March 6, 2008

AIME (Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience) program


This year the AIME program is being run at the faculty through Yooroang Garang at the University of Sydney.

The AIME program aims to develop relationships between University students and Indigenous high school students in our local western Sydney area in an effort to improve school retention rates and increase the number of Indigenous school students progressing to higher education. Importantly, the program also provides valuable opportunities for cultural awareness for the mentors and mentees.

If you are interested in becoming a mentor for the AIME program please contact Mr Clark Webb on 9351 9110 or by email at aimewesternsydney@gmail.com

Thankyou in anticipation for your support for this project.

Sally Farrington MHPEd, Grad Dip Phyty, BSc
Senior Lecturer
Yooroang Garang

Laughter is the best medicine

Get ready!

National Smile Day
is almost here!!!!





The Humour Foundation will launch on the 10th March how to get involved with the National Smile day campaign.

The Humour Foundation is a charity dedicated to promoting the health benefits of humour.
International research has found psychological and physiological advantages from doses of humour. Humour is an effective coping strategy. It can relieve fear and stress and aid recovery.

COTSA IS NOW RECRUITING



Can you organise a social event? or other activity that Cumbo OT's would enjoy?
Are you interested in being on the COTSA management committee?

Contact us at
COTSA@CumboOTs.com with your name, year and mobile number so we can get back to you.
see http://www.cumboots.com/ for more details

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Youth media organisation volunteers



Organisation: Vibewire
Location: Ultimo
Vibewire is a youth media organisation and is the people behind www.vibewire.net. It has vacancies for the following positions:

sQuareOne Intern

Vibewire's sQuareOne media and arts project incubator space is recruiting an intern for two to three days a week to assist with promotions, communications and liaison with other organisations. This role would suit a student or someone looking for experience in the non-for-profit or arts sector and wishing to hone their skills in cultural production, marketing and promotions and event management.


sQuareOne operations assistant
Contact:
applications@vibewire.net

This 2-3 day a week role is for an enthusiastic and skilled person to support the Chief Operations Officer (COO) at our national office at sQuareOne until August. The role would suit a student or anyone looking to get experience in operations management. As Operations Assistant you will be working closely together with the COO allowing you to hone your skills in the field of human resource, project and general management.

Accounting assistant

We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic accountant to support the COO for the rest of the current financial year. Your role as Accounting Assistant is based on general bookkeeping and the administration of our accounts payable and receivable. The position requires someone with a keen sense of initiative in order to help us improve our existing bookkeeping and finance management systems.

Assistant project coordinator

This role is for the e-Festival of Ideas until mid April and involves up to 2 days a week. It would suit a student or anyone looking to get experience in event coordination. Role involves liaising with panel contributors, moderators and sponsors, assisting with the writing and editing of program materials, assisting participants of the festival with their queries, and general administrative tasks that arise from the festival.

Promotions intern

This role is for 1 to 2 days a week to mid April and involves working on communication strategies to attract young people to the e-Festival of Ideas and investigating promotions avenues and partnerships. The intern will be developing appropriate communication strategies through which to reach our target audience; writing copy for media releases, e-flyers and other promotional materials; investigating promotions avenues and tools; building relationships with appropriate promotions organisations; liaison with graphic designers; and general administrative tasks.