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Using tech and innovation to break barriers to socio-economic inclusion
Become a volunteer now

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Why become a Konexio volunteer?

Are you passionate about social change? Do you want to play a role in helping refugees and migrants integrate into their host communities? Do you want to help youth and job seekers from underprivileged backgrounds launch their careers and promote diversity and inclusion in the workforce?

Joining the Konexio community of volunteers gives you the chance to:

  • Get involved in a social-impact project rooted in values and a sense of purpose
  • Directly contribute to helping excluded populations integrate the workforce​
  • Join an international and diverse community of people from all backgrounds and walks of life
  • Benefit from a validating and concrete professional experience
  • Acquire new skills such as public speaking, how to transfer knowledge and teach a course, and how to collaborate and work in a group
  • Expand your professional and personal network
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Class Volunteer

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Do you have some free time during the week or on Saturday mornings or afternoons? Come join Konexio’s team of class volunteers and work directly with our students in our digital basics courses (learning how to use a computer, navigating the Web, sending emails, learning how to write text using a French keyboard, etc.) or our intro to code and web development courses (HTML, CSS, Javascript). All volunteers are offered a short instructor training session and the chance to visit and observe current courses in order to get a hands-on comprehension of the role of a course volunteer.
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Instructor: teach course sessions in one of our two programs
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Assistant instructor: assist the class instructor and support students with course tasks and exercises

What skills do I need as a volunteer?

  • For our beginner level workshops: Basic knowledge of everyday use of digital skills
  • For our intermediate level workshops : Good knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel)
  • ​For our advanced level workshops : Mastery of Excel
  • For our intro to web development courses : Mastery of HTML, CSS, and/or Javascript
  • Language skills : Our courses are taught in French, but a good level of English is an added bonus
  • Be available between 2-4 hours a week over the course of 10 weeks minimum
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills
  • Patience and the attitude of a team player!

Program Development

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Do you have experience, or want to gain experience, in building partnerships and fund development? If so, come join #TeamKonexio as a project volunteer! Enthusiasm for our mission and our work and good communication skills are all that are required, but fluency in French and/or strong English skills are a plus!
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Partnership building: Find out how to identify and build relationships with partners and organizations across different sectors who share our values and our mission
Money by Xinh Studio from the Noun Project
Fund development: Come help in the search for funding and financial support opportunities

What skills do I need as a volunteer?

  • Be available between 2-6 hours per week
  • Professional experience in education, business, and/or finance are a plus
  • Language skills : a good level of English is a plus
  • ​Good interpersonal and communication skills​
  • Patience and the attitude of a team player!
Become a volunteer now
"Being a volunteer at Konexio allows me to share my passion for IT with students coming from different backgrounds and different cultures, students with the drive to learn and take their future into their own hands"
GUILLAUME B., DigiStart program instructor

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