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Volunteer Graphic Designer (Brand & Creative Design)

Unlock YOUR Potential

Location: Remote
Time Commitment: Flexible
Reports To: Founder / CEO
Salary: Voluntary Position
Closing Date: Ongoing Recruitment

Help Us Build a Brand That Inspires Change

At Unlock YOUR Potential, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive. Through careers coaching, employability support, personal development, wellness programmes, and mentoring, we help adults build confidence, unlock opportunities, and achieve their goals.

We are seeking a creative and passionate Volunteer Graphic Designer to help bring our brand to life. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact by shaping the visual identity of a growing charity and creating resources that will inspire, engage, and support our community.

As one of our founding volunteers, your work will help establish a professional and recognisable brand that reflects our mission of empowerment, growth, and opportunity.

About the Role

We have developed an AI-generated logo concept and are looking for a talented volunteer who can refine, format, and prepare it for professional use across digital and print platforms.

Beyond the logo, you will help create a cohesive visual identity and design engaging resources that support our programmes, events, fundraising activities, and community outreach.

Key Responsibilities

1. Brand Development

• Convert and optimise our AI-generated logo into professional formats.
• Create logo variations suitable for print, web, social media, and merchandise.
• Produce high-quality files including SVG, PNG, JPEG, PDF, and vector formats.
• Develop a comprehensive Brand Guidelines document.

2. Graphic Design

• Design promotional posters and flyers.
• Create social media graphics and templates.
• Produce presentation and workshop materials.
• Design banners, brochures, and information leaflets.
• Support the creation of fundraising and campaign materials.

3. Digital Content

• Develop branded templates for social media platforms.
• Create graphics for website content and newsletters.
• Design visual assets for volunteer recruitment campaigns.
• Help maintain visual consistency across all communications.

4. Creative Collaboration

• Work closely with the Founder and volunteer team.
• Contribute creative ideas to strengthen the charity’s identity.
• Support special projects and awareness campaigns.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for someone who enjoys using creativity to make a positive difference.

Essential Skills

• Graphic design experience (professional, freelance, student, or hobbyist).
• Proficiency in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, Affinity Designer, Figma, or similar tools.
• Understanding of branding and visual identity.
• Ability to create professional-quality digital and print-ready designs.
• Good communication and organisational skills.

Desirable Experience

• Brand development and guideline creation.
• Charity, community, or non-profit design work.
• Social media content design.
• Marketing or communications experience.
• Illustration or motion graphics skills.

Whether you’re an experienced designer building your portfolio or a creative professional looking to use your skills for a meaningful cause, we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Gain

By volunteering with Unlock YOUR Potential, you will:

• Help shape the visual identity of an emerging charity.
• Build an impressive portfolio of meaningful work.
• Gain experience creating branding for a charitable organisation.
• Work on a variety of creative projects.
• Develop leadership and project management skills.
• Receive recognition, references, and professional development opportunities.
• Make a lasting impact on the lives of adults seeking to improve their futures.

Our Values

• Empowerment – Helping people realise their strengths and potential.
• Growth – Encouraging continuous learning and development.
• Wellbeing – Supporting positive mental, emotional, and personal wellbeing.
• Opportunity – Creating pathways to brighter futures.
• Community – Building connections and supporting one another.
• Integrity – Acting with honesty, respect, and professionalism.

Diversity and Inclusion

Unlock YOUR Potential is committed to creating a welcoming, inclusive, and diverse organisation. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and communities.

Apply Today

If you’re passionate about design and want to use your creativity to help transform lives, we’d love to hear from you.

Unlock YOUR Potential

Empowering People. Transforming Futures.

“Your creativity can help people see the possibilities in themselves. Join us and help build a brand that inspires change.”

MiMIAT Health

We empower patients with mobile/SMS tools to build continuous health records for proactive chronic care​

�� Who are we?
MiMIAT Health is building the patient-anchored operating system for chronic disease management.
We help patients capture longitudinal health data in a structured way, and enable clinicians to review disease evolution more clearly over time. Our first live module focuses on gastrointestinal health, and we are already working across healthcare and institutional environments.

�� What are we looking for?
We are looking for a Business Development Associate (EU Market) to help us drive outreach and early commercial conversations with dietitians and nutritionists across the EU market.
This is a focused volunteer role for someone who is comfortable opening conversations, building trust, following up consistently, and helping move interest toward real opportunities. We are looking for someone who wants direct exposure to early-stage commercial execution inside a meaningful HealthTech startup.

��️ What will you do?

• Identify relevant dietitians and nutritionists across the EU market and build targeted outreach lists
• Reach out through Instagram, TikTok, email, and other relevant channels to generate qualified first conversations
• Follow up consistently with interested leads and help move them toward concrete next steps
• Help refine outreach messaging, positioning, and commercial approach over time
• Support the conversion of promising conversations with dietitians and nutritionists into demos, pilots, or paying opportunities

�� Who might be a good fit?

• You are comfortable with outbound outreach, follow-up, and relationship-building
• You are able to help move conversations from first interest toward real commercial opportunities
• You communicate clearly and confidently in written and professional settings
• You are proactive, organized, and consistent in execution
• You are interested in digital health, nutrition, chronic care, or patient-centered innovation
• You can commit around 4 to 6 hours per week
• Bonus if you have experience in business development, sales, partnerships, or healthcare-related commercial outreach

✨ Why join?

• Contribute to a real HealthTech startup already active in the market
• Work directly with the Founder & CEO
• Play a direct role in opening and shaping commercial opportunities
• Gain hands-on exposure to early-stage business development and commercial execution
• Be part of a mission focused on making chronic care more connected, dignified, and patient-centered

�� Interested?
Send us a short note about yourself through WeMakeChange. We’d love to hear from you.

Minimum Hours per Week:

4-6 hours per week

Duration:

3-5 months

Interested in supporting victims/survivors of domestic abuse?

We are currently recruiting Trustees to help us take the charity forward into the future.

Herts Domestic Abuse Helpline is a registered charity led by a Board of Trustees.

The Trustees (all unpaid volunteers) act individually and collectively, to provide overall stewardship of the charity, in accordance with our governing document and relevant legislation. In essence we look after the staff, volunteers and the organisation, so they can support the community.

You don’t need specific qualifications or experience to be a trustee and we welcome people of all ages, backgrounds and experience.

Prospective candidates will need to:

• Have empathy with the work of the Helpline

• Be able to devote the necessary time and effort

• Have well-developed communication and interpersonal skills

• Have good judgement

• Be able to work as a team

• Have the ability, commitment and drive to take the organisation forward

Trustee Opportunities

For any charity succession planning is important and with that in mind we are currently looking for people to join our Board as Trustees.

1. Chair: Our Chair will be stepping down soon after 15 years and we are looking for someone to learn the ropes beside her before taking on the role. 

2. Treasurer: After 10 years, our Treasurer is looking to retire in the next year. The Treasurer’s role description is on our website.  

3. General Trustees: Please see the role description on our website

If you would like to apply please complete the application form on our website.  You are welcome also to email Chris Roach, Chair, at that address to arrange an informal chat.