Ottawa District Community
Region 7
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Current Volunteer Opportunities
The following positions are currently available for the summer 2008 sport season:
- Assistant Volunteer Coordinator
- Softball - Ottawa (Assistant Coach)
- Track & Field - Ottawa (Assistant Coach)
- Soccer - Ottawa (Assistant Coach)
- Soccer - Kanata (Assistant Coach)
The following positions are currently available for the 2008-09 sport season:
- Assistant Volunteer Coordinator
- Swimming - Orleans (Assistant Coach)
- Swimming - Ottawa West (Head Coach)
- Swimming - Ottawa West (Club Manager)
- Swimming - Ottawa West (Assistant Coach)
- Figure Skating - Ottawa (Assistant Coach)
- Bowling - Ottawa (Assistant Coach)
- Basketball - Kanata (Assistant Coach)
- Cross Country Skiing - Ottawa (Coach)
- Curling - Ottawa (Assistant Coach)
- Floor Hockey - Ottawa (Coach)
For more information about these positions please contact Myriam Gay at 613-860-6184 or by e-mail at: .
Special Olympics volunteers should have the following atributes:
- enthusiastic, highly motivated individual who has excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
- high integrity, are passionate about helping others and believe in the vision of Special Olympics Ontario;
- interested in assisting in the growth of Special Olympics in the Ottawa area and making a difference in the lives of others.
How to register as a Volunteer?
(Registration Forms)
What volunteering means? Back to the top
Volunteering brings out the best in everyone. Volunteers act as coaches and organizers, helping our athletes improve their level of physical skill.
The volunteers of the Ottawa District Community encourage nearly 500 residents with an intellectual disability to participate and compete in sports. They organize activities year round to meet the seasonal needs of the athletes.
Volunteering means something different for each person involved with Special Olympics. As one volunteer said, "every time I see the smile on the face of a Special Olympics Athlete, it makes the time put into volunteering well worth the effort".
Being a trained coach in one of our sports (click the link), volunteering to help in a Special Olympics program would be a very rewarding experience for both you and the athletes. Training programs are offered on a regular basis to help develop coaching skills.
In addition, we are always in need of "behind the scenes" volunteers. Fund-raising, sport program coordination, special event organization and other vital administrative tasks are all performed by volunteers. These positions help to ensure that Ottawa District Community Special Olympics athletes enjoy regular practices and competitions in their favourite sports.
Benefits Back to the top
- Have the opportunity to experience and Help athletes with an intellectual disability achieve their goals and reach their full potential
- Improve your coaching and/or administrative skills
- Meet new people and contacts
- Participate in recognition events
- Pursue training and continuing education
- Stay active in sport
- Use your skills to help others
- Add meaningful experience to your resume
What do the volunteer opportunities involve? Back to the top
Program volunteers and coaches:
- provide training for athletes in any of our different sports
- work with athletes to improve basic motor skills and teach sport-specific skills
- prepare athletes for competitions
- commit about 1-2 hours weekly
- commit some weekends for competitions
- Be a part of athletes achieving their goals and capture the spirit of Special Olympics!
Please refer to the coaches page for more details on various volunteer positions.
Event Volunteering
- Experience the energy of a Special Olympics event!
- Spend an exciting day at a competition timing races, measuring long jumps, serving lunches, fundraising and much more
Administrative Volunteer
- Share your expertise and talents on a planning committee
- Gain new leadership and organizational skills, or utilize your creative side in organizing on a fund raising event or competition
- Gain skills in fundraising, budgets, planning, coordinating and much more...
Other
We also welcome volunteers with professional skills that can help us match possible needs in the organization:
- Photographers
- Singers
- Graphic designers
- Medical Experts
- etc...
If you are interested in getting involved as a volunteer Back to the top
please contact Myriam Gay at 613-860-6184 or by e-mail at: