Leadership Development

Leadership development opportunities

Learn valuable skills, get involved with your community and enhance your leadership capabilities. Bond University offers a range of leadership development opportunities to help you learn valuable skills, boost your employability and get you involved in university life and the community.

See below for a range on on-campus and off-campus opportunities.

Mayor’s Student Ambassador Program

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Designed to develop and strengthen your personal and professional skills, the Mayor’s Student Ambassador Program gives you the opportunity to engage within the wider local community, providing you with a platform to contribute to the City of Gold Coast through unique student experiences.

Additional Resources

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Foundation for Young Australians (FYA): Programs for young changemakers.

Ripple: Create Impact, Faster. Ripple helps you discover opportunities to create impact.

Humans for Good: Find small actions with big impact.

BUSA

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BUSA is Bond's student organisation and provides services to the broader student community. BUSA is a voluntary, apolitical group of elected students to represent peers and help students make the most of their time at Bond.

Faculty Student Associations

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Each faculty has a designated student association specifically focused on the interests of students studying in their specific fields. These 'Faculty Student Associations' liaise closely fall directly under BUSA, working to bring students the best support and access to social and educational events.

Class Representatives

The Class Representative (CR) system has been created to establish two-way communications between students and academic staff to supplement the existing methods of teaching evaluation. Becoming a CR enables the student voice to be heard and develops valuable employability attributes. If you are interested, please speak with your lecturer or tutor.

Student Ambassador Program

Bond’s Student Ambassadors have the chance to participate in a range of activities to meet current and future Bondies, network with prospective employers and gain mentoring and leadership experience.

Transformer

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Transformer is an Australian-first entrepreneurship program offered as a fee-free, extracurricular option to undergraduate and postgraduate students from all disciplines. Whatever you’re passionate about and whatever your dreams are made of - Transformer could just be the most life-changing experience of your time here at Bond University.

Student Advocacy

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Student Academic Support Officers provide student advocacy services and general support to students involved in university decision-making and review processes.