Do you want to help preserve wilderness and save wildlife?
Want to help, but can’t afford financial contributions?
Want to put your skills to good use?
Want to be immersed in jobs filled with opportunities?

If you’ve answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, joining the WCWC Volunteer Program is your next step!

* Volunteer Positions
* Awards System
* F.A.Q’s
* Internships

Volunteer Positions

Check out these new and exciting positions that need to be filled with keen and interested volunteers!

Administrative Assistant
Job Description: Database entry, typing documents, running errands, filing, and conducting inventory.
Experience: Must have good computer skills and capable of working with spreadsheets and word processors.
Note: Excellent position for anybody seeking to hone skills for working in an office environment. Plus, you get to be immersed in a friendly and exciting atmosphere where you get a chance to see the “in’s and out’s” of what it’s like working for an environmental group!

Eco-Educator
Job Description: As an Eco-Educator, you get to co-design and present information on pressing environmental issues to youth, outdoor groups, and schools, as well as teach them how they can do their part to save the environment.
Entails presenting to assemblies of students or to classrooms.
Experience: Must be experienced in dealing with children, have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and be innovative. Applicants must be punctual, highly motivated, and interested in environmental issues.
Note: Excellent opportunity to work with children and develop public speaking skills. For all you teachers-in-training looking for professional development, you need look no further!

Researcher
Job Description: Collecting data for Wilderness Committee campaigners, and writing summaries on research findings.
Experience: Must have experience in performing research in libraries, on-line, etc. Applicants must have experience writing and submitting reports, and have excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
Note: Excellent opportunities for grad students seeking topics for dissertations, or for any other students looking for valuable experience to help them break into their field. Positions are available as projects arise.

Public Relations Specialist
Job Description: Helping edit, write, and refine media presentations and releases.
Experience: Must have extensive experience in media communications.
Note: Excellent opportunities to put professional skills to use, and help a great cause!

Assistant Network Coordinator
Job Description: Help organize potlucks and other recreational gatherings where eco-groups, youth groups, community groups, and Aboriginal groups can meet, share information and network.
Experience: Experience organizing social events and gatherings a definite asset, but not necessary. Applicants must be highly motivated, organized, and reliable.
Note: A great opportunity to meet many interesting people, have access to information about what’s happening in the environmental movement, and do an important job for a great cause!

Awards System

Because we consider the time you spend volunteering with us to be so valuable, we ensure that your commitment and contributions are aptly recognized.

If you have volunteered with us, you will get a certificate at the end of the year. The certificate will state what position you held as a volunteer, as well as the level of the award (based on the amount of hours you donated).

The award levels break down accordingly:

* General Participation = 0-24 hours
* Bronze Level = 25-49 hours
* Silver Level = 50-75 hours: with $10 worth of selected WCWC merchandise.
* Gold Level = 76-100 hours: with a written letter of reference and $20 worth of selected WCWC merchandise.
* Special Member = 100+ hours: with a written letter of reference, special invitations, and up to a maximum of $30 of selected WCWC merchandise
>Volunteer of the Year
The Volunteer of the Year is the most prestigious of all the WCWC volunteer awards. The recipient of this award receives a plaque, in addition to all applicable certificates, letters, and merchandise.
While special consideration is given to the top three volunteers who have donated the most amounts of hours, the award is presented to the volunteer who showed the most commitment and potential and who made the greatest overall contribution to the Wilderness Committee’s success in the past year.

F.A.Q.'s

1) How does volunteering at the Wilderness Committee help save wilderness?
Because we’re a registered charity, financing to create new positions is often not available. Therefore, our volunteers play a crucial role in fulfilling our needs for greater capacity. The more people that help, the more we can do in the quest to protect our natural heritage.

2) How does/can volunteering at the Wilderness Committee benefit me?
We provide an avenue for you to sharpen a number of different employable skills. Volunteering with the Wilderness Committee opens up the potential for you to get new jobs in a number of different fields, because the more you volunteer with us, the more experience you gain, and the more employable you become in whatever field you volunteer in.
Furthermore, the more you volunteer, the more plaques, certificates, letters of reference, and selected WCWC merchandise we provide you as tokens of our appreciation. And best of all, volunteering for something you believe in feels great!

3) What’s involved in the application process?
Step 1: Contact our Volunteer Coordinator: call 942-9292 or email us at wcwc@mts.net.
Step 2: A meeting time will be arranged. Make sure to bring a resume!
Step 3: At the meeting, the Volunteer Coordinator will discuss your interests and what positions are available. Together, we’ll figure out how you can get the experiences you want!
Step 4: Let the volunteering commence!

4) What kind of commitment is expected out of me once I become a volunteer?
It depends on the job that you will be performing – some of the jobs require more hours than others. Just make sure that you let the Volunteer Coordinator know what your availability is at the time of your interview.

Internships

Ever wonder how you’re going to break into your field?
If so, then look no further! Internships are now available at the Wilderness Committee!!

What’s an internship?
An internship is more than volunteering – it is a gateway to your career in the environmental movement.
As an intern, you act and are treated just as though you were an employee of the Wilderness Committee. Working side by side with actual Wilderness Committee employees, you get to experience all of what goes into running an environmental organization – hands on!

What are the benefits of doing an internship?
By being an intern with the Wilderness Committee, you get valuable experience honing your employable skills to work in the environmental field. As an intern, you will learn to perform a variety of tasks, ranging from accounting to research, in addition to helping run the day-to-day operations of a non-profit organization.
But it doesn’t end there. Bursaries are also available for internships through Youth Serves Manitoba, which go toward your tuition or student loans for the up and coming year.
For more information on bursaries through Youth Serves Manitoba, please check out this link: http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/youth/Employers/YouthServes.html

NOTE: If you want the bursary to apply to your tuition/student loan for the 2005-2006 school year, then your commitments as an intern must be fulfilled by January 2005.

What kind of commitment is expected of interns?
For all interns, we expect that you:
* Provide a minimum of 100 hours of community service activity (through WCWC)
* Work as an intern for a 3-6 month period
* Work as an intern on a part-time basis for that period
* Be 16 years of age or older, and legally entitled to work in Canada
* Follow the same protocol and expectations of conduct as WCWC employees.

The required commitments for interns seeking the bursary through Youth Serves Manitoba are outlined under the “Program Eligibility” section of the Youth Serves Manitoba website: http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/youth/Employers/YouthServes.html

How do I apply for an internship with WCWC?
Firstly, you must contact our office at (204) 942-9292, and ask for William Granger, the Assistant Campaign Director for the Manitoba Chapter of WCWC. Just tell him that you’re interested in the position, and ask if there are any vacancies.
If there are, he will set up an interview with you, file your information and contact you if and when you’ve been chosen for the position.
Be sure to apply about one month before YSM application deadlines of every year to ensure that all the necessary arrangements can be made in a timely manner.

Please check this website for information on deadlines and eligibility: http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/youth/Employers/YouthServes.html