School Advocacy Communication Volunteer
- Reporting to: Advocacy Project Coordinator
- Location: 21 King Street, Hereford
- Expenses: Travel and Lunch (according to Volunteer pack)
- Working Hours: 2 days a week
- Reporting to: Jenny Holland (Advocacy Project Coordinator)
Background
Concern Universal is an international development organisation that works to address the causes of poverty in nine countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America by working alongside some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable communities.
Working in partnership with local organisations, Concern Universal supports initiatives in a number of sectors including water and environmental sanitation, food security and sustainable livelihoods, and human rights.
Concern Universal operates a small co-ordinating office in Hereford, England. The Executive Director and three teams (Programmes, Fundraising and Finance are based at the UK office (UKO). The UKO plays a critical supporting role for the ten country offices. The Volunteer Administrator will support the Office Manager in ensuring the smooth running of UKO and providing support to offices overseas.
Role
This role is to support the Advocacy Project Coordinator by managing the communication to schools.
Specific task
- Put together a schools newsletter, with photos and text to show how schools have been involved with CU, this will be used to promote the work to potential schools and to create a greater community feel between supporting schools
- Contact existing schools to send in articles and examples for future newsletters
- Adapt a flier about schools work to send out to businesses
- Update schools page on CU’s website and Facebook and twitter as appropriate
Experience and skills
Essential
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
- Good IT skills, including experience of databases, spreadsheets and Word.
- Effective administration and organisational skills
- A friendly and flexible approach to teamwork
- Reliability and commitment to attend regularly
- Attention to detail
- Flexibility to take on a wide range of tasks, according to changing priorities
- Sympathetic to CU’s aims and objectives
Desirable
- Experience of Communication
- Experience of teaching/schools
- Experience of social media and website administration
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