Ways to Volunteer
Volunteer with the OSU Alumni Association!
Volunteer opportunities with the OSU Alumni Association range from regular ongoing engagement efforts, like serving as an alumni career mentor, to annual service projects, like the OSU Days of Service. Browse the volunteer opportunities below and learn about the various ways you can make an impact.
Career-related Volunteer Opportunities:
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Serving as an alumni career mentor is a great, flexible way for you to help other Beavers grow their careers. There are a number of ways to get involved via OSU Connections and/or the LinkedIn Beaver Careers Group:
- Share that you're open to mentoring
- Post about job opportunities in your company
- Serve as the expert in an informational interview
- Offer to host a student for a job shadow
- Reshare local or virtual career-related events
- Refer recent alumni to OSUAA alumni career services
Serving as a presenter for the OSUAA Ask Alumni Webcast Series is a great way to be involved with alumni and students, share knowledge, and meet other presenters and speakers. As a presenter, you provide online career platform programming to a diverse alumni audience and expand volunteer opportunities for alumni and students.
Responsibilities include:
- Working with the OSUAA alumni career engagement director to identify presenter topics
- Providing content and PowerPoint slide information to OSUAA
- Assisting with developing poll questions for the audience
- Communicating with other co-presenters on webcast content and outline
- Assisting with promoting webcast within your networks
- Participating in the live webcast
Job shadowing can serve as an important aspect of the career decision-making process for students. Of course, classroom and on-campus experiences are integral to a student's learning, but job shadowing gives students the opportunity to visualize what their career might look like in a more realistic setting.
Learn more about how you can apply to be a host for OSU’s annual summer Job Shadow Program.
Event-specific Volunteer Opportunities:
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Our annual service project, OSU Days of Service, is a celebration of our global Beaver community making positive changes. Every year alumni and friends of OSU take the community spirit of Beaver nation to the streets and online to make a difference.
With opportunities to volunteer, inspire through gratitude and donate, you can get involved and host an in-person or digital project wherever you are. Volunteer with an existing organization, spread the word about a digital project you are passionate about or donate to support OSUAA programs and student scholarships by making a gift.
Celebrating your class reunion or reuniting with a club or affinity group on campus is truly a high point in the year, and we look forward to working with volunteers to help guide programming and to reach out to classmates to help folks reminisce and reconnect.
Volunteer responsibilities
- Reaching out to former classmates to encourage them to attend the reunion
- Helping guide the program, speakers and other activities
- Sharing interests and other feedback for successful planning and implementation
- Determining the class/affinity gift with support from OSU Foundation and OSU Alumni Association staff
- Acting as ambassadors at the event and ensuring everyone feels welcomed and included
Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities:
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The regional volunteer role is perfect for alumni looking for a short-term commitment, and it is especially tailored for those alumni and friends who want to get involved for the first time.
Responsibilities vary, but can include:
- Helping to promote OSUAA regional activities and events among your personal networks
- Assisting with event setup and cleanup
- Helping with registration on the day of an event
- Providing feedback on venue selections and timing
- Participating in quarterly or monthly regional hub calls in selected markets
- Planning an alumni activity/project/event in your area. Past activities have included music festival outings, fun runs, OSU and/or a local sports team attendance, happy hours, etc.
