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Vancouver's Most Awesome Expo
Needs Vancouver's Most Awesome Volunteers

 

We've started recruting for EPIC 2012 and are more excited than ever to get bright, passionate, awesomely EPIC volunteers involved!

We have several areas where we need help. These are broken down into three main categories:

Directional & Registration - assisting with welcoming EPIC visitors to the show, take/scan tickets, help manage lines & cues, and be a happy, shiny face eminating awesomeness. Excellent communication skills required.

Show Assistants & Supervisors - taking more functional responsibility at the Main, Fashion and Cooking stages, assisting exhibitors with staffing, moving or assembling their booths, maintaining a presence in the Volunteer Room and helping the Volunteer Coordinator/s, and floating between various tasks assigned by the awesome Operations Manager. Flexible attitude, physical ability and general awesomeness required.

Onsite Sustainability - not glamorous but totally important, assisting with waste stream separation to ensure minimization of waste and maximization of recyclables and re-useables, helping exhibitors with pre- and post-event cleaning. Passion for being awesomely envrionmental required.

 

Volunteer Orientation

IMPORTANT: Attendance to a Volunteer Orientation Session is mandatory for EPIC 2012. This decision has been made based on four years of experience with less than 50% of volunteers showing up to Orientation resulting in mass confusion and stress at the event.

There will be TWO separate Orientation Sessions to ensure everyone can attend.

Dates and times will most likely be:

Session #A - Friday, May 4. 6:00 pm

Session #B - Tuesday, May 8. 6:00 pm

Please indicate which session you will be attending in your application email. If you cannot attend either, please do not apply.

 

Shifts

Shift #1 - Friday, May 11, 11:00pm - 4:00 pm

Shift #2 - Friday, May 11, 3:30pm - 8:30 pm

Shift #3 - Saturday, May 12, 10:00am - 3:00pm

Shift #4 - Saturday, May 12, 2:30pm -  7:30pm

Shift #5 - Sunday, May 13, 10:00am - 2:00pm

Shift #6* - Sunday, May 13, 1:30pm - 6:00pm

*Anyone interested in Show Management, Event Production or Trade Show Coordination would benefit from taking this shift to witness a Trade Show of our size being dismantled.

 

To apply to EPIC Team Awesomeness:

Send an email to volunteers@epicexpo.com in the following format:

 

"Hi EPIC Team Awesomness. I'd love to help with EPIC as a Show Assistant. I take some college courses in Event Management and am available for Shift #4 and #6. I wear a girls' size Small shirt and can be reached at 604.123.4567. I work on Fridays but can attend Orientation Session #B.