For casual Peer Writing positions you will:

1. be a post graduate student with a high level of written and spoken English
2. have a high level of achievement in your own study
3. be able to facilitate individual appointments for students wanting to develop their academic writing skills

Preferably you will also have some tutoring experience and knowledge of the university ( Information sheet; Role description). These positions are paid.

Want to

• Meet new people?
• Share your love of the subject?
• Reinforce your own understanding? Develop your leadership and communication skills?

This is what former PASS Leaders have to say about the experience: “Watching the group dynamic change from bunch of individuals to working as a team, and realising that you’ve been the catalyst”

“Knowing that what you're doing makes a real difference and helps your PASS students achieve the goals they've set themselves in the course”

“The chance to meet and interact with students you wouldn't usually meet”

“Seeing students faces light up when they figure out a problem themselves: the 'a-ha' moments – priceless!”

“Best experience I've had at uni so far :)”

Become a PASS study group Leader: role description ( - 433KB), information ( - 222KB), and application form ( - 35KB). Please note that this is a paid position.

Would you like to:

• learn about cross-cultural communication
• develop your leadership and communication skills
• contribute to effective internationalisation of our campus?

If your answer to these questions is ‘yes’, then you might like to become an ExcelL volunteer.

‘ExcelL’ means ‘Excellence in cultural experiential learning and leadership’. The ExcelL programme is a 15-hour programme where students from different cultures learn how to communicate successfully in their new host culture:  in our case, New Zealand. Put in another way, ExcelL teaches newcomers the rules of the game for their new environment. ExcelL uses volunteers like you to help explain these rules. You will be given some training before your programme starts. Once your programme starts, you will need to come along to five 3-hour sessions. You will:

• receive 2-3 hours training
• answer questions about how to communicate successfully in certain situations
• perform roleplays to show students exactly how kiwis communicate
• coach a small group of students from other cultures
• gain knowledge and skills that will benefit you in your future multicultural workplaces

All hours are Victoria Plus and VILP approved. If this sounds like an experience you’d enjoy, please contact us.

These are voluntary positions. The experience will mprove your leadership skills, provide networking opportunities and boost your CV. To be a leader, you need to be a native speaker of English, and enjoy meeting people from different cultures. You will be expected to attend the programme one hour a week for 10 out of 12 weeks of the trimester.

This is a paid position. The student coordinator is required to promote both the ExcelL programme and the Conversation programme. The coordinator also needs to recruit volunteers for both programmes, help train volunteers, and coordinate volunteer participation. For the conversation programme, the coordinator also plans activities. Time commitment is approximately 200 hours spread over the year. Apply to SLSS in October for the following year. Victoria Plus and VILP approved.

Role description ( - 222KB) and Information sheet ( - 16KB)