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LEAP (Leadership, Excellence, Aspiration, Platform) Career Development Forum is a Los Angeles-based 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to building a trustworthy and sustained platform for professional growth and career advancement of young Asian Americans and those from Asian countries currently studying or working in America in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and other fields.

 

As one of the most dependable and promising career development organizations in SoCal for young students and professionals of Asian descent, LEAP Career Development Forum is expanding its volunteer teams of Marketing, Business Development, Event Management, and IT

 

BENEFITS:

 

  • Build Your Resume: Include the experience you get working at a non-profit organization, and earn a letter of recommendation

  • Improve Your Public Speaking: Present to your peers in large settings and gain valuable presentation experience on campus

  • Grow Your Leadership Presence: Highly successful ambassadors have the opportunity to become a lead.

  • Gain Strategic Marking Knowledge: Manage focus groups, participate in campus events, and gathers student inputs to drive digital thought leadership

  • Learn Social Media Strategy: Get involves in social media activities and create LEAP content

  • Hone your communication skills: Learn how to enhance your personal brand through effective business communication with the campus community and the LEAP team

  • Enhance Your Networking Skills and Expand your professional network.

 

 

1. Campus Ambassador

Job ID: LEAP-01-CA

 

Job Summary:

A LEAP Campus Ambassador is an outgoing, engaged and well-connected student on campus who serves as a liaison between LEAP and campus. The job may consist of hosting LEAP events, running local marketing efforts, and much more. It gives any student great marketing experience, a great resume--filler, and, most importantly, an unforgettable experience during college.

 

Requirements:

  • Coordinate as a point of contact between LEAP various campus organizations

  • Collect and analyze feedback and demands from the campus community

  • Promote LEAP and activities to the local campus community

  • Assist in organizing various LEAP events on campus

  • Commit at least 2 hours per week towards working with us

  • Are not allergic to fun

 

Qualifications:

  • You are a registered full-time undergraduate or graduate student

  • You have a minimum of cumulative GPA of 3.0

  • You are a part of at least one on-campus organization

  • You work well with peers as part of a team

 

 

2. Event Associate, Business Development

Job ID: LEAP-02-EABD

Job Summary:

  • Coordinate with Event Leader to organize and deliver events on a regular basis

  • Assist communications, logistics, and pre/post-event follow-ups in all phases of the event

  • Facilitate with fund raising campaigns

 

Qualifications:

  • You have good people skills and are willing to talk and coordinate with different people

  • You are an organized person who pays great attention to details

  • You can commit at least 4 hours per week towards working with us

 

 

3. Front-End Web Developer

Job ID: LEAP-03-FEWD

 

Job Summary:

The Front End Web Developer will be responsible for creating smartly designed web features, pages and applications that utilize cutting edge technology and practices as well as maintaining our web content management system. The right candidate for this position has a passion for user experience, loves new technology and isconstantly striving to create a better experience for the organization’s customers and visitors. You will work closely with IT team and marketing team.

 

Qualifications:

You must be a current student in an academic program and be willing to work at least 4 flexible hours each week, including late nights and weekends. You must have technical skills as:

  • Experience of web development 

  • Knowledge or experience of content management system

  • Experience of web design, Joomla developing or user experience design is a plus

And also soft skills includes:

  • Able to work as a team

  • Energetic and passionate about new webtechnologies.

 

 

4. Social Media Marketing Associate

Job ID: LEAP-04-SMMA

 

Job Summary:

  • Edit, polish, and publish the bi-weekly WeChat and newsletter push

  • Maintain and update LEAP’s official Facebook, LinkedIn, twitter and meetup accounts when necessary

 

Qualifications:

  • Willing to be committed to complete regular tasks

  • Familiar with Social Media platforms.

 

5. Communications Marketing Associate

 

Job ID:LEAP-05-CMA 

 

Job Summary:

Designed for current students, this part-time internship provides valuable experience in Communications and Marketing. As part of theteam, you'll assist in:

  • Writing articles for our WeChat, Email and other platforms

  • Supporting sponsor planning and activations

  • Managing the list of communication channels

  • Communicating with internal and external stakeholders

  • Creating multi-media content (videos, photos, infographics,etc.)

  • Reaching out to media outlets and industry publications

  • Designing web pages and microsites

  • Creation Proposals and grant applications 

 

Qualifications:

  • You must be a current student in an academic program and be willing to work at least 4 flexible hours each week, including evenings and weekends

  • Passionate about helping others

  • Excellent written (e-mail, content creation) andcommunication skills

  • Extremely well organized and detail-oriented

  • Able to work well in a team

  • Energetic and creative

  • On camera experience for interviews and videoblogging

 

How to apply:

If you are a dynamic, creative, self-driven hard worker in SoCal who strives to make lasting impacts and trailblaze a path of opportunity as you hone your leadership skills and build your professional experience, please send your latest resume to careers@leapcareer.org. We look forward to working together with you to leap forward on a fun journey!

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