My Volunteer Experience - Thea Shiye Jin
Welcome Thea!
Thea Shiye Jin joined our Data Analytics Team as a volunteer, whilst she studies her Masters at University beginning with the team this year on the 26 July 2023.
She has attended for ~4 hours a week onsite at the Connecting Up Office joining several other students from the course and from related university subjects in the SAcommunity program, and has now retired from the program as she focusses on her career.
"I wanted to express my sincere gratitude for the opportunity to have been a part of such a meaningful journey with the team. It has indeed been a rewarding experience." - All the best Shiye
Total Hours 64 Joined 26 July 2023 Last check-in 15 November 2023 (retired)
Personal Biography
Shiye is a first-year student currently studying the Master of AI & Machine Learning at the University of Adelaide graduating in August 2024. With a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Fuzhou University, she has interned as a structural drafter at a design institute in 2020 and as a safety officer at a construction site in 2022. Her exposure to Intelligent Construction kindled an interest in machine learning, and ultimately led her to choose a career pathway which provides a deeper exploration of this field.
She is volunteering within SAcommunity's Data Analytics Team to gain more practical work experience and to understand how data is applied in the real world. Her aims in joining the program are to attain new skills in Power BI, an interactive data visualization software product, understand data analytic work processes in a local workplace, and to have the opportunity to apply her own academic knowledge of big data, to make it genuinely valuable in assisting the community. Through volunteering she also seeks to forge new connections, participate in industry events, and expand her network.
In the future, Shiye plans to work in the industrial sector, combining her background in Civil Engineering with her knowledge of Machine Learning, to more effectively value and employ big data. Allowing organisations to gain insights, identify opportunites, improve performance, operations and services, and to make informed decisions.
Community Services in Councils Project
Shiye has selected the Barossa Council for her council reports, a dataset of approximately 404 community services operating in the area over 2021-2022. Following up on previous reports by Hang Zhang and Renu Bala, and can be found >>here. Council stakeholders are contacted by phone or email with an introduction to the SAcommunity service and presentation of the data and information visualization reports created on services for their area.
Telephone Techniques Training: Volunteer David Webb explaining telephone training principles to new volunteers Thea Shiye Jin and Alice Jinye Zeng
Training and Development - Telephone Techniques
Telephone techniques assist Data Analytics Team members with understanding more about the directory and data collection methods, in data cleaning and updating their individual dataset information, and, in finally introducing and presenting their data reports to council stakeholders.
Training and Development - Telephone Techniques
Telephone techniques assist Data Analytics Team members with understanding more about the directory and data collection methods, in data cleaning and updating their individual dataset information, and, in finally introducing and presenting their data reports to council stakeholders.
Training and Development - Digital Learning Platform
Thea has had the opportunity to understand more about data analytics in the not-for-profit sector, and was provided with access to the Connecting Up Digital Learning platform, a training and development online learning platform with a selection of relevant live webinars and recorded webinars, workshops and webcons from a range of subject-matter experts who also have a deep experience with not-for-profits.
Professional Development at Infoxchange is a balance of approximately 70% project / 20% peer-to-peer learning / 10% formal learning. For the SAcommunity Team there is approximately 15 hours of project work, 3 hours of peer-to-peer learning, and 1 hour of online webinar with 30 minutes of feedback, to reflect and strengthen team members understanding of what was learnt and what their personal takeaways were from these educational sessions facilitating life-long learning.
Relevant webinars, workshops and webcons selected by Thea have included:
The Digital Marketing Webcon (1/11/2023)
Session 1 CRM Fundamental: Organising your data is non-negotiable for NFPs – Sorcha from Nation Builder
Session 2 Facebook and LinkedIn as cause community building platform – Kate VanderVoort from Social Mediology
Session 3 Learn how to design with Canva – Yvette Adams from Creative Collective -
Session 4 Dive into Facebook and Instagram Advertising – Alecia from Hancock
"Thank you once again for all the support, guidance, and opportunities provided during my time with the SAcommunity. It has been an absolute pleasure volunteering with you and the team."
Thank you Shiye!
