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Friends and VOLUNTEERS

Perhaps you want to do more than enjoy our comfortable sailing experience? Or maybe you want to be involved - minus the sailing. Parents - perhaps you want to do more than just drop your kids off at our Lunenburg gates? Maybe you want an excuse to hang out with some of your ol’ crew or Sea School staff. There are lots of ways to give back to a program that is important to you, your children and lots of young people in the Maritime region.

We’re always looking for people for a variety of different tasks and volunteer positions. If you are interested in any of these positions or would like to create your own please contact us at the Sea School.

Boat Maintenance Dockhands

The School would love: some boat enthusiasts, or people who like working with their hands, to sand, finely-measure, saw, paint, hammer, cut, etc to ready our beloved boats for each upcoming season.

Time Commitment: 6 hours every two weeks or every month
Location: Lunenburg
Qualifications: Breathing and a pulse.
You Gain: A great time working with other assistants, and a home cooked lunch on our workdays! Experience in repairing and maintaining a boat – including learning to use big tools, small tools, paintbrushes and exacto-knives.

Presentation Facilitators

The School would love: some past-participants who are energetic and comfortable speaking to groups to help us facilitate 1-3 hour workshops for schools, community groups and conferences.

Time Commitment: 4-12 Hours per month
Location: Wherever we can get to for a presentation
Qualifications: Have been on a Sea School Trip and want to talk about it with other people
You Gain: A really fun experience presenting an interactive workshop to youth with a great group of Sea School Crew and Staff.

Marketing Assistants

The School would love: some help implementing our marketing strategy including: where to market Sea School programs, marketing in schools, strategies for marketing to parents and a plan for marketing in the community, strategies for brochure distribution.

Time Commitment: 2-5 hours per week.
Location: Everywhere, everywhere and anywhere
Qualifications: We can use everyone from PR and marketing geniuses to people who read this and think “you know Joe, I really think the Sea School should have brochures/posters at ________“
You Gain: A great time working with our savvy Sea School marketing strategists, and/or a great time working with other marketing assistants

Operations Crew – Engine Room

The School would love: a couple people to help put the wind in our sails; keep our engine oiled; and otherwise keep us from using too many metaphors in our work by helping out in the office.

Time Commitment: 2-5 hours per week (more time in the summer if desired)
Location: Our room with a view in the Roy Building on Barrington St., Halifax
Qualifications: Fun and pleasant individuals with good people skills
You Gain: Lots of administrative skills. Some nice office-buddies.

Database Navigators

The School would love: one or two people who aren’t afraid of Macs to assist us in cleaning up and updating our database

Time Commitment: 2-5 hours per week, or a couple of days solid
Location: Sea School Office
Qualifications: Some familiarity with database entry and software
You Gain: Great experience working with an large database, and the company of our friendly office staff

Events Coordinator and Event Crew

The School would love: Some creative and make-it-happen types, and/or people who can help setting up to help organize or coordinate (or even just lend a hand) for our community and fundraising events

Time Commitment: 2 hours per week
Location: Sea School Office, Lunenburg Base and event locations
Qualifications: Anything from arranging chairs to events or coordination experience.

Fundraising/Grant-writing Assistants

The School would love: some skilled writers, networkers or web-searchers to help fundraise, write grants and proposals and find some new opportunities for fundraising

Time Commitment: 2-5 hours per week
Location: Sea School Office or your home
Qualifications: Good writing skills, net-search skills and ideas and/or proposal writing/fundraising experience

Board of Directors: Treasurer

The School would love: A hip accountant to succeed our current treasurer. He/she will liaise with our bookkeeper for the Board, monitor our accounts and provide some friendly advice when needed.

Time Commitment: 2-5 hours per month
Location: Board Meetings are held at the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron
Qualifications: CA or equivalent
You Gain: A great time working with our diverse and energetic Board and the opportunity to become involved with an interesting and inspiring community

Board of Directors: Legal Advisor

The School would love: A dynamic legal mind to offer advice and ideas

Time Commitment: 2-5 Hours per week.
Location: Board Meetings are held at the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron
Qualifications: LLB or equivalent experience
You Gain: A great time working with our diverse and energetic Board and the opportunity to become involved with a fun and inspiring community

Board of Directors: Participant Representatives

The School would love: Two creative and committed youth (between ages 18-25) to sit on our Board of Directors for 6-months to help us develop the Participant Representatives positions.

Time Commitment: 2-7 hours per month
Location: Board Meetings are held at the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron and Sea School Office (to work on role development)
Qualifications: Age 16 and up. Have participated in at least one Sea School trip
You Gain: An incredible opportunity to help create something we are very excited about! You will gain fantastic experience working with our interesting Board members, encouraging Sea School staff and all our lovely participants.

"I feel that all the friends I've made and all the ENCOURAGEMENT they gave me helped steer me in the DIRECTION I'm now pointing. The Sea School has done this for me." Hanna