Become a volunteer

Go Girl, Go for IT is a program run solely by volunteers as part of the Victorian ICT for Women network. Go Girl, Go for IT has the mission to change the under-representation of women working in STEM by inspiring and educating young girls about the myriad of career opportunities.  

The Go Girl, Go for IT event is fully sponsored and run 100% by volunteers. There are two ways to volunteer, in stream and on the day.

On-The-Day Volunteer

Go Girl Guides, or On-The-Day Volunteers, help on the actual day of the Go Girl event to buddy up with speakers, coordinate and corral girls and overall help us guide an amazing and incredible experience for our sponsors and schools involved on the actual day.

The details are normally known closer to the event, so we recommend keeping an eye out on our social pages when this comes up.

We ask that you are available for us to onboard and train you on what you need to do, and be familiar with the site - as well as being involved on the day itself.

We always need more hands so if you know someone who knows someone - we’re here for it

Registrations to be involved as an On the Volunteer for 2024 will be announced in the coming weeks!

In Stream Volunteer

In stream volunteers help plan and shape the event from the start, and we need talent! Each stream plays an important part in executing a successful event. Volunteers dedicate their time and share from their experience in the creation, execution, and delivery of each Go Girl, Go for IT event.

Interested? Pick a stream below that best meets your existing skill or talent, or look into new avenues in which you’d like to grow.

Leadership Team

The Leadership Team Volunteers strategically plan and shape the organisation from the start. Lead Volunteers dedicate their time to managing and coordinating their teams to deliver the Go Girl, Go for IT program.

We are looking for people who can give approximately up to 12 hours per week of their time which includes meetings and tasks.

Marketing Stream

To influence and communicate the Go Girl program's position as the program that excites, educates, inspires and attracts the next generation of female STEAM professionals

·         Communications plan

·         Social media and web presence

·         Press release

·         Website maintenance

·         Branding and logo consistency

·         Consistency of templates and content (e.g. speaker / sponsor / tradeshow prospectus, emails to schools)

Sales & Account Management Streams - each holding half of the sales end to end pipeline

Attracting and sustaining relationships with organisations who are seeking to improve diversity and influence the next generation of female STEAM professionals – aka their future workforce – to sponsor and contribute to the Go Girl program

·         Lead generation

·         Conversion of leads into Go Girl sponsors

·         Maintain sponsor relationship

·         Assist in vetting workshop briefs and speaking sessions

·         Conduit for sponsors to understand their tradeshow obligations

Governance Stream

Ensuring the Go Girl program keeps to scope, time and budget; maximising our impact in educating, inspiring, and attracting the next generation of female STEAM professionals

·         Overall schedule and dependencies between teams

·         Financial management and governance of the Go Girl program

·         Chairing and minuting regular Go Girl LT meetings

Volunteers Stream

To attract, recruit, onboard and retain people who are keen and inspired to be part of organising or positively impacting the next generation of female STEAM professionals

·         Recruit, vet [where required], onboard and retain in stream volunteers

·         Recruit, train and oversee on the day volunteers

Data & Insights Stream

Tracking our impact on the next generation of female STEAM professionals

·         Consistency for pre and post event surveys to schools and sponsors

·         Post-event report

·         NPS scorecard

·         Maintain related program information and datasets

·         Leverage data to draw insights

Tradeshow Stream

Exciting and attracting the next generation of female STEAM professionals through exhibits and play

·         Maintain relationship with Go Girl event venue

·         Prepare tradeshow floor plan and source 3rd party for build

·         Source exhibits for the tradeshow

·         Involvement in the setup, on the day and dismantle of tradeshow

Girls Liaison

Attracting schools and parents to attend the Go Girl program where their girls will be educated, inspired and attracted to STEAM pathways and careers

·         Registration of schools into the Go Girl event

·         Alignment of school groups where required to specific components of the program

·         School bus reimbursements