Activity Information:
Southern Youth Leadership Conference 13.0
Duration: 4 weeks (1st Aug 2023 - 28th Aug 2023)
Graduate Attribute :
- Leadership
- Communication
- Enterprising Skill
- Team Working skill
- Adaptability
Role :
I was the Organizing Committee member of Finance & Legalities for SYLC 13.0
Mini report:
Southern Youth Leadership Conference is 4 weeks long project which was started in the year 2016, planned by youths to help youths. SYLC is targeting on the unemployment issue in the Johor Bahru area based on Sustainable Development Goals SDG 8: Decent Work & Economic Growth, as set by the United Nations. The project aim to create a local impact towards SDG 8.6 - to substantially reduce the proportion of youths not in employment, education or training. Also, to provide youths with opportunities of personal development prior to employment. And To provide youths with education on personal development skills to build up their confidence prior to being employed. Over 320 participants engaged in employability skills trainings and career guidance spaces as part of SYLC 13.0, with 10 employability skills trainings and 13 partners working together. The project had total 7 volunteers. During this project there was four site visit, six webinar sessions, one business challenge, one podcast and a 3 day long workshop.
Self reflection:
AS the OCFL my job was to keep track of the money and the agreement. I had to prepare and maintain a database for all of the volunteers agreement as well as all the receipt, invoice and Memorandum of Agreement(MoA). Also, I had prepared proposal for few of the key activities inside the project and prepare a budget and risk management plan for all of the activities. Other than that I also had to prepare report for each of the activity. Furthermore, I also had to work in the technical unit and multimedia unit during all the virtual event. And my most challenging task was logistic where I had to plan transportation and keep track of all the travelling expenses and prepare individual bill for everyone related to the project and it was a tough job. During these four week I met a lot of professional individual who gave me a lot of advices and the sessions during career workshops were very useful as the speaker gave a lot of good suggestion during their session. Also, some of the speaker even encourage us to start our own business rather than working a 9-5 job which was very captivating. Also, this project helped me develop my leadership and communication skill as I had to act as the head of technical or multimedia unit where I had to guide the volunteers to fulfill their task. So for this I had work with people from different background, ethnicity and country which was very enjoyable. While working on these projects we had a lot of sudden changes and few bottlenecks but we managed to pull through it and made this project successful. This kind of tested my adaptive skill which I manage to utilize a lot to keep everything on track. Not everything was perfect but I did learn a lot of new sets of skills and I reinvented few new part of myself that I never knew existed. Working in this project was very effective for me.
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