Secretary
CDU Sydney SaRC
- Elected to the first committee of a new social and recreational club for CDU Sydney students.
- Working with the committee on the constitution, the bank account and the logo.
03 — Leadership & volunteering
Rooms, rosters,rainy nights.
108 volunteer hours, two committee roles, a team-lead role at Vivid and a paid student-leader job at CDU. Two selected event proposals, and one lost child found safe. Leadership here means the unglamorous bits: break schedules, dietary spreadsheets and knowing the floor limit.
Roles
Four roles, two committees.
Event Coordinator
SISA, CDU Sydney
- Planned and ran social, networking and tech events for CDU Sydney IT students, including international students.
- Helped coordinate IT Code Fair 2026 with the Faculty of Science and Technology.
- Wrote two event proposals, both selected; organised the End of Semester Party, Game & Connect and Co-Working Sessions.
Event Volunteer & Team Leader
Casual Hands, Sydney
- 108 volunteer hours at Vivid Sydney, City2Surf and Ferragosto 2026, logged through CDU’s VALue program.
- Team Leader for 4 of 6 Vivid shifts, with a different team of 8 to 16 volunteers each night.
- Handled two missing-person cases; both resolved safely.
Casual Student Leader
Charles Darwin University
- Paid university staff role.
- First point of contact for students on academic support, campus facilities and university policies.
Vivid Sydney 2026 · Casual Hands
Team Leader for 4 of 6 shifts, a different crew of 8 to 16 every night.
Set break times, moved people between posts as crowds shifted, and kept the team going on rainy nights. Handled two missing-person cases: helped a man find his wife, who was new to Sydney, and helped find a lost child, who turned up safe in the nearby kids’ area.
- 108
- Hours via CDU VALue
- 3
- Vivid · City2Surf · Ferragosto
- 16
- Largest team on one shift
City2Surf 2026 · Casual Hands
Volunteer crew for the 14 km run from Hyde Park to Bondi.
A long day on the course at Bondi with the Casual Hands team, and a medal for the volunteers at the end of it.
SISA Event Coordinator
Proposals that were selected.
The documents belong to the association, so they stay private. The thinking behind them is mine, and it is written up here.
Event proposal · Selected
End of Semester Celebration
A campus-wide night for up to 100 registered students: the room’s limit confirmed up front, catering chosen so no one community owned the menu, and food ordered on confirmed numbers rather than the approval.
- 100-student cap
- Inclusive catering
- Risk table
Program proposal · Selected
SISA 2026 Events Program
Four events for the 2026 funding round, three of them built to run in Orientation Week, each with its numbers, its cost and a cheaper alternative ready if the committee wanted one.
- 4 events
- O-Week ready
- Costed alternatives
