World University Service of Canada (WUSC - EUMC)
51 - 200 employees
Founded 1963
🤝 Non-profit
📚 Education
🌍 Social Impact
Non-profit • Education • Social Impact
World University Service of Canada (WUSC - EUMC) is a Canadian non-profit organization dedicated to improving education, economic, and empowerment opportunities for young people across the globe. By collaborating with a diverse network of students, volunteers, schools, governments, and businesses, WUSC seeks to address inequality and exclusion in over 15 countries worldwide, including regions in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Their initiatives focus on enhancing access to quality education, particularly among girls and refugees, increasing access to training and employment services, and empowering youth to contribute to a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable world. In Canada, WUSC is involved in the resettlement of refugees through its Student Refugee Program and engages Canadians to foster a better understanding of global development issues.
Youth Advisory Board Member
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World University Service of Canada (WUSC - EUMC)
51 - 200 employees
Founded 1963
🤝 Non-profit
📚 Education
🌍 Social Impact
Non-profit • Education • Social Impact
World University Service of Canada (WUSC - EUMC) is a Canadian non-profit organization dedicated to improving education, economic, and empowerment opportunities for young people across the globe. By collaborating with a diverse network of students, volunteers, schools, governments, and businesses, WUSC seeks to address inequality and exclusion in over 15 countries worldwide, including regions in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Their initiatives focus on enhancing access to quality education, particularly among girls and refugees, increasing access to training and employment services, and empowering youth to contribute to a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable world. In Canada, WUSC is involved in the resettlement of refugees through its Student Refugee Program and engages Canadians to foster a better understanding of global development issues.
📋 Description
• Provide strategic guidance and recommendations to ensure the initiative aligns with the Foundation’s refugees and displaced persons framework, its objectives, and expected outcomes • Offer input and feedback on the design and implementation of the DREEM initiative • Make recommendations on the content and delivery of trainings and workshops • Act as ambassadors and advocates for DREEM • Support refugee and displaced persons inclusion events, both in-person and virtual • Help disseminate information and build connections and opportunities with other existing networks of refugee and displaced youth • Support community engagement efforts
🎯 Requirements
• Lived experience of forced displacement (refugee, asylum seeker, internally displaced person, returnee, stateless person) • Ability to provide critical and constructive advice • Ability to work effectively in a team • Commitment to community development • Commitment to youth leadership • Demonstrated experience in community leadership • Proficiency in French or Arabic is an asset • Experience with refugee-led organizations, funding, access to economic opportunities, or inclusion in higher education is an asset
🏖️ Benefits
• Modest monthly stipend and communication allowance (USD 150 or equivalent per month) • Access to the YAB Community Fund (up to USD 10,000 for initiatives related to DREEM project priorities) • Costs related to participation in meetings or project activities will be covered by WUSC
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