Join our amazing team for LEADER 2023-2024
Thank you for your interest in the LEADER Project. LEADER is the most unique and exciting extracurricular program available at Ivey. Students who are selected to participate in LEADER benefit from unparalleled insight into global, private sector driven development projects, unique cultural experiences, and create an impact in both emerging economies and the Ivey community.
Each year, LEADER sends a team of Ivey students to a number of sites, where they teach foundational business administration and entrepreneurial skills through the case method and one-on-one coaching. Volunteer instructors from the MBA, HBA, MSc and PhD programs undergo training to then take part in a mutually beneficial experience that allows them to build a unique skill set. In 2019, 28 students travelled to Ethiopia, India, Macedonia, Nepal, Russia and Serbia.
Being involved in LEADER will give you exposure to Ivey faculty, the Dean, prominent alumni, and an opportunity work with Ivey students from other programs. With over two decades since inception, LEADER has 800+ alumni across Canada and the world.
To be eligible for the Project, you must:
- Be available to travel abroad for 2-4 weeks in April and May
- Have a passport valid for 6 months following the departure dates
- Commit approximately 5 hours per week, consisting of meetings and individual assignments
- Attend 3 Teaching Training days on weekends between January – March
- Provide a $1000 deposit, which will be returned provided you reach your $1000 fundraising target
LEADER has made tremendous progress in recent years and we are seeking individuals committed to continuing this trend. LEADER is a significant undertaking as the work level is consistent throughout the year, but the rewards are unrivalled. The successful execution of the project is not from the work of just one person, but rather the entire team. We are seeking students that are highly driven, dedicated, professional, and adaptable team-players.
To ensure that the program is successful, participants are asked to volunteer for a committee to help support the program. The committees for 2018 include:
- Curriculum: Develop content for the 2018 trips and facilitate instruction preparation
- Fundraising & Social: Organize events to raise funds and build relationships amongst LEADER participants
- Logistics: Coordinate logistics across each project site
- Marketing & Communications: Build and enhance LEADER's external profile through traditional and social media
- Impact: Create new tools to manage LEADER's impact across each of its project sites
MBA/MSc Candidates:
Applications open: -
Applications close: -
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HBA Candidates:
Applications open: September 15th, 2023
Applications close: September 18th, 2023
Application link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdkPgeLXKx3TBcS82bwX-kWk5Fh8fLSGrg7AruKdCbwHpRyIA/viewform
Committee Descriptions
Curriculum
The curriculum group has two major functions: content development and instructor preparation. This year, the committee will improve upon the existing instructor preparation model and develop a strategic plan for future curriculum development, ensuring that our curriculum is increasingly relevant to an entrepreneurial audience.
Detailed responsibilities include:
Fundraising and Social
The committee’s ability to raise funds is critical to the success of the project. Additionally, internal events are organized to spark camaraderie and friendship within the LEADER cohort.
Detailed fundraising responsibilities include:
Detailed Social responsibilities include:
Logistics
The logistics group is responsible for managing travel arrangement with the sites and making sure all necessary Visa applications have been filed by the LEADERites.
Detailed responsibilities include:
Marketing & Communications
The M&C committee's main role is to cultivate LEADER's social media presence and maintain the content on the external website.
Detailed responsibilities include:
Impact
The Impact committee's role is to develop and execute on an impact measurement strategy for LEADER, with the end deliverable being a comprehensive Impact Report measuring LEADER's cumulative and annual impact worldwide.
Detailed responsibilities include:
The curriculum group has two major functions: content development and instructor preparation. This year, the committee will improve upon the existing instructor preparation model and develop a strategic plan for future curriculum development, ensuring that our curriculum is increasingly relevant to an entrepreneurial audience.
Detailed responsibilities include:
- The continuous improvement of the curriculum based on the needs of the program participants;
- The evaluation of feedback and statistics from previous years, the incorporation of feedback into the current year curriculum;
- The improvement and development of teaching notes, readings, lectures and cases for the entire curriculum;
- Management of case translation to the relevant languages of any newly added cases;
- Organize Teaching and Learning Sessions which will cover the following general topics:
- Implementing a program (Super Teaching Session) which allows new LEADER members to practice preparing and leading a class using case materials within the curriculum, and;
- Implementing a skills training program (Super Learning Sessions) to provide members with additional context behind the following, but not exhaustive list: teaching with cases, effective communication, consulting/coaching effectively, entrepreneurship, cross-enterprise leadership, regional history, economic and cultural background information.
- The development of site instruction packages that reflect the economic development, language, ability and experience of local classes;
- The management of printing and distribution of curriculum materials to site captains, and;
- Ensuring that all feedback forms are included in site materials, are collected and completed.
Fundraising and Social
The committee’s ability to raise funds is critical to the success of the project. Additionally, internal events are organized to spark camaraderie and friendship within the LEADER cohort.
Detailed fundraising responsibilities include:
- Coordinating the "Personal Fundraising Challenge" from inception to launch within members and cultivating a sense of ownership and responsibility for the cause. Directly helping individuals achieve their goals.
- Heading two London-based fundraising initiatives for the LEADER project, one in each semester.
- Leading the organization and implementation of LEADER's biggest event of the year - the annual charity Alumni event, which includes: dates, venues and sponsors and silent auction items.
Detailed Social responsibilities include:
- Leading the initial Ivey LEADER project social event of the year
- Organizing events on a monthly basis to create community within the LEADER project cohort
Logistics
The logistics group is responsible for managing travel arrangement with the sites and making sure all necessary Visa applications have been filed by the LEADERites.
Detailed responsibilities include:
- Arranging transportation for members to and from their destinations;
- Designing and organizing a debriefing procedure;
- Coordinating entry visas and emergency contact lists with Site Captains and ensuring all individuals have submitted the necessary documents;
- Preparing documentation for use overseas, including Site Captain’s guides and liability forms;
- Ensuring that each site team is informed about immunization requirements;
- Updating the LEADER calendar (HBA/MBA/PhD/MSc).
- Review existing sites for discontinuation, and provide new site proposals, with suggestions and observations submitted to the Board. This will be extremely important given ambitious targets for site replacement to maximize global impact.
Marketing & Communications
The M&C committee's main role is to cultivate LEADER's social media presence and maintain the content on the external website.
Detailed responsibilities include:
- Organizing the construction and maintenance of the LEADER website as well as the LEADER Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts;
- Maintaining all non-financial records of the Project including, but not limited to documents-both electronic and hard copy, pictures, videos and any other materials related to the Project in any form
- Creating marketing campaigns for the Project’s fundraisers and annual events, working closely with the fundraising committee when choosing a target market, developing material to be used to promote the Project within and outside of the Ivey community for the purposes of participant recruitment and encouraging attendance at the annual Alumni event
- Please indicate in your application if you have any of the following interests, skills and/or experience in: blogging, photography, photoshop, programing and/or marketing.
Impact
The Impact committee's role is to develop and execute on an impact measurement strategy for LEADER, with the end deliverable being a comprehensive Impact Report measuring LEADER's cumulative and annual impact worldwide.
Detailed responsibilities include:
- Building an impact measurement framework;
- Identify key data points and KPIs to track and measure;
- Research and collect historical data to analyze and translate into meaningful insights;
- Produce comprehensive Impact Reports for historical impact and annual impact
