Are you an LSE alum who wants to mentor a team of talented and enthusiastic LSE students volunteering as consultants for UK and overseas charities? Consider applying to join one of the ten teams on the LSE Community Engagement Programme 2023! The programme will run from Wednesday 18 January 2023 to 22 March 2023.
As an LSE Alumni Mentor, you’ll meet with your team (online or in person) once every 2 weeks. Your role will be to help to guide the students through the consultancy process as well as to help them to overcome challenges and to act as a ‘sounding board’. The teams will also receive support from the LSE Volunteer Centre, which has created a suggested itinerary, support events, and resources; other relevant divisions across the LSE; and their charity partner, with whom they’ll meet regularly.
If you are interested in making a social impact by supporting a group of talented students working on a project of social significance, then we’d love to hear from you! This year’s projects are from charities operating in the fields of sustainable development, hunger, mental health, women’s rights, educational equity, community-building, inclusion, social care, and saving lives at sea. You will be able to express an interest in specific projects at the point of application.
Last year’s LSE Alumni Mentors wrote that it had been ‘an enriching experience to provide guidance’ (LSE Alumni Mentor, CEP 2022), and a great way to ‘give back to the LSE community’ (alum Harriet Bradshaw-Smith). ‘For someone who is truly grateful for the LSE experience’, alum Marc R. Claude says, ‘the CEP program has been an opportunity to pay it forward while giving back to others.’ Alum Palak Sharma writes that ‘I believe this program is the very essence of being an LSE student. The opportunity to help students with research that is based on service, is an amazing feeling. But more than that, the cooperation, team-building and most importantly, the LSE-anecdote-sharing, makes this a worthwhile experience to help young students change the world, one small step at a time’.
You can read more about the experiences of two of last year’s mentors, LSE alum Karen Seegobin and alum Shivam Shekhawat, on our blog, where you can also read broader feedback on the programme.
If you are interested in finding out more about this opportunity and applying, please follow the link to CareerHub. If you would like to speak to the LSE Volunteer Centre before applying, please email volunteer@lse.ac.uk. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.
