Join our 2024-2025 team!

Application

To apply, simply fill out this form.

After we receive your application, we will invite you for an informal talk. Nothing to be nervous about. We will process applications on a rolling basis.

Why join IAESTE Leuven?
  • You get to participate in a meaningful extracurricular activity while enhancing your teamwork and leadership skills: we have weekly board meetings to discuss ongoing projects and plan awesome events.
  • Your experience will be adapted to your personal preferences: members are permitted to choose a function with more or less intensity and time spent on board work can range from a few hours a week to as many as you like. Of course, you gain more useful experience the more you participate!
  • You can live your creative dream in our team: we have one well-defined core mission (internships abroad), allowing us to fill the rest of the year with activities that we deem interesting. No two years are the same at IAESTE. As a consequence, members can dream up any relevant event, and we can make it happen!
  • After or in between our meetings, we plan some fun to make the year as memorable as possible. At our latest teambuilding, we rented a karaoke studio for an evening and went loose. What happens in karaoke, stays in karaoke!
  • A board year at IAESTE results in marketable skills for your future. Among our current and former members, two distinctive character traits stand out: our sense of initiative and our global perspective on the world.
Job descriptions

(Vice-)President:

  • Handles the daily activities of the committee
  • Prepares and presides the committee meetings
  • Is the first point of contact for other IAESTE committees in Belgium or abroad
  • Is the primary liaison for other organizations like VTK, LBK, LOKO, etc.
  • Maintains and improves relationships with the university’s departments, faculties, groups and campuses
  • Develops and implements the long-term strategy of the committee, and steers multi-year projects
  • Drives new initiatives for events and collaborations with organizations or faculties
  • Tracks progress of the committee as a whole and of the individual teams, coaches and supports where necessary, looks for opportunities to improve

Marketing:

  • Manages all our (social) media channels: from Instagram to newsletters, while ensuring a variety of content on our platforms (information, recaps, videos, …)
  • Collaborates closely with other teams to promote events and internship information to our target groups
  • Acts as a strategic marketing partner: consults on the type of events to organize, and on how to add value for our public and partners
  • Watches over the uniformity, style and content of our marketing materials
  • Aims to ambitiously increase our brand recognition in the Leuven student population

Exchange:

  • Informs Belgian students about internship possibilities with IAESTE, using various communication channels such as social media, info events, Go Global, etc.
  • Oversees the Wish List distribution and coordinates Nomination procedures with the other Belgian committees
  • Assists (aspiring) outgoing trainees with their application and nomination packages, visa, and follows up with them after the experience
  • Supports incoming trainees with an extensive Welcome Guide and by helping along their search for housing
  • Plans activities for incoming trainees over the summer where they can get to know each other, local culture and cuisine, and our committee
  • Organizes a super-deluxe Leuven Weekend as the highlight of our trainees’ incoming experience that they will never forget

Corporate Relations:

  • Searches for partnering companies or organizations, both in terms of internships to offer to students (called jobraising) and sponsorships
  • Is always on the lookout for possible partner events, internship hosting companies or event sponsors/speakers
  • Coordinates the search for internships and provides guidelines on how to give convincing pitches to companies or research departments
  • Attends job and internship fairs to proactively seek out corporate contacts
  • Supplies professional-looking informational materials to support our search for internships and sponsors
  • Tends to the satisfaction of previous hosting companies to either improve host experience or assess further partnership opportunities

Human Resources:

  • Is the committee’s team-builder: organizes team events, but also strives to maintain a pleasant vibe on meetings and while hosting external events
  • Is in charge of learning and development: arranges regular workshops featuring internal or external speakers, and allows team members to upgrade their skills while in the committee
  • Ensures committee members are happy with their team and tasks, and resolves conflicts if they arise
  • Plans visits to other IAESTE committees abroad (called Twinnings) and reciprocates the effort by showing these committees around Leuven on another time
  • Looks for new members during the recruiting season, gives information on promo booths and gathers applications
Finance:
  • Prepares and maintains the annual budget of the committee, and submits a revision at the end of the first semester
  • Co-organizes every event in order to have an intimate knowledge of its contents, helps translate this into a proper event budget and defends this with our NPO (‘vzw’) after submission
  • Manages contracts, invoices, payments, and uses this data to generate detailed financial results of our events
  • Is responsible for the committee’s inventory management: keeps stock of our goodies, promotional material and other equipment, and replaces or renews it when necessary
  • Handles everything related to subsidies (e.g. from LOKO), and lends a hand with the committee’s administration (e-mail, website)