Diverse Entrepreneurs Business Incubator: Facilitator

Your Role: 

As a Facilitator, you will have the opportunity to work and collaborate with DIVERSECity's team members from diverse backgrounds. You will be able to support aspiring entrepreneurs by sharing your insights as they put their business plans into action. You will follow the guidance provided by the Self Employment and Entrepreneur Program Coordinator and the CWB Business Incubator curriculum. The goal of this bootcamp is for aspiring entrepreneurs to start creating business operation processes, such as product development, branding, marketing, sales, customer service, production, logistics and accounting procedures.

Volunteer Learning Objectives:

• Share your insights and expertise related to social media, branding, marketing, and other promotion processes with aspiring entrepreneurs;
• Learn about the goals of the DIVERSEcity Entrepreneur Program and support systems available in Canada for new entrepreneurs to develop their businesses;
• Identify the challenges that immigrant and BIPOC individuals face when starting a business;
• Apply learned knowledge of the program as well as interpersonal, communication, cross-cultural awareness and instructional skills by assisting in the delivery of program activities;
• Acquire volunteer skills for community involvement;
• Apply interpersonal, empathy and relationship-building skills by developing healthy relationships with program participants.

Other benefits:

• Help aspiring entrepreneurs develop their business plan and strategy
• Gain content creation skills
• Develop your understanding of community programming
• Earn credit on your co-curricular record

Program Logistics

This program will run weekly. Volunteers may join one or more of the following cohorts:

• Cohort 1: Saturdays starting January 18th, 10:00am – 1:00pm, at DIVERSEcity Surrey Community Campus (13455 76 Avenue, Surrey, BC).
• Cohort 2: Wednesdays starting March 5th, 12:30pm – 3:00pm, at DIVERSEcity main campus (13455 76 Avenue, Surrey).

Time commitment: Volunteers must commit to attending the program every week during the agreed upon semester(s). Ideally, you will commit to the entire run of the program (until June 2025). But, we realize that scheduling and life circumstances may change your ability to continue volunteering in future semesters. Please try to keep this opportunity's dates in mind when determining your schedule in these months.