SDSN Youth would not exist without its vast network of volunteers - a truly global team brought together to achieve one mission - empowering youth to achieve the SDGs.
Maybe you're watching the news or concerned about your own country. You want to do something, but don't work in sustainability.
Our volunteers come a variety of backgrounds - business, engineering, international relations, psychology - and work together for one goal: shape a more sustainable future.
We understand that volunteers are dedicating their spare time to work with us. We want you to enjoy being part of the team - so team building, professional development, and social events are core to the volunteer experience.
Assembly members are essential for SDSN Youth to function on a global scale.
You'll meet passionate young people from around the world.
Join the team to amplify their work, help them accelerate their impact, one Saturday at a time.
"We knew that to make an effective change within the university community, we needed to work hard and reach out to every student on campus at the undergraduate and postgraduate level...I have learned to lead better and engage in a more effective way. I have met people with different ideas and plans and I am always amazed at how young people have so much embedded in them."
"One year after, I look back at the Fellowship feeling grateful and inspired. Some elements of my project concept note have been incorporated in the work of 500 x La Paz. Even though the pandemic has paused on further steps of my project, I have learned a lot and hope to apply this knowledge to this and future projects of mine. As an urban journalist, I have also written a piece about the challenges of and potential solutions for my project area."
"What is best about this initiative,” Haripriya recounted, “is there are insights shared by people from all walks of life - they could be scholars, policymakers, professionals, educators, and whatnot - and we make sure that our questions are never biased to any of our personal perspectives."
The glue that keeps the team together.
Operational roles are essential to keeping things run smoothly.
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Your role is to ensure our message is actually communicated to the end audience.
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Your role aims to understand the needs, challenges and goals of your community, and provide support to address them - in order to engage the program community.
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The Fundraising Team is pivotal to expanding SDSN Youth.
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Learning & Development team members aim to upksill volunteers so that they are best equipped to grow professionally and personally.
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Working together is important for us to achieve the SDGs - the goal is to identify how we can effectively collaborate.
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The Strategy Team and Growth Teams identify New Ventures that may help increase SDSN Youth's impact or ability to fundraise.
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The design of the programs...how do you create a great experience for your program members, and also allow them to reach their goals?
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The Recruitment/HR team is in charge of finding new volunteers to join the team, and engage current ones.
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You would support the Global Director in addressing strategic challenge statements in the teams, and working with the Team Leads to solve them.
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Drive a vision. Leadership roles that manage our team of volunteers.
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