Ambassador Job Description
Student Ambassadors Experience a Larger MIT
Student Ambassador Wendi Zhang '09 networks with alumni at the Alumni Leadership Conference 2007. Photo: Chris Brown.
The MIT Student Ambassadors, a select group dedicated to the positive promotion of the Institute, are an essential component of MIT's public relations outreach.
Responsibilities
- Positively represent the MIT student body
- Act as an ambassador to alumni and prospective students at events (general event management and host responsibilities)
- Assist in the recruitment of future Student Ambassadors
Rewards
- Gain a greater understanding of MIT
- Sharpen communication and public speaking skills
- Improve interpersonal and conversational skills
- Enhance confidence when speaking and interacting with the MIT community
- Meet and network with alumni, campus VIPs, and future students
- Gain access to exclusive events
Qualifications
- Enthusiastic and positive attitude
- Good work ethic to perform assigned tasks
- Willingness to develop or improve public speaking skills
- Ability to start conversations with alumni and prospective students
- Genuine desire to help MIT remain a world-class institution
- Desire to meet MIT alumni, VIPs, and future students
Requirements
To remain an active Student Ambassador, you must attend all monthly meetings/training sessions, actively participate in volunteer offerings, and conduct all ambassador business in a professional manner.
Applications are due by 11:59 p.m., Sunday, September 6, 2009. Apply now!
