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Are you passionate about social media and can lead a small team? We're looking to recruit a Lead Volunteer for our Social Media Team. We’re looking for someone who has a passion for promoting a small charity supporting a rare condition and has the ability to support a volunteering team as well as plan and use platforms and tools for social media including Canva, Google Drive and other digital platforms.
The Social Media Team develops and promotes Burning Nights CRPS Support’s communications online, using social media platforms as widely as possible, in order to maximise our impact and to inspire actions in the public, healthcare professionals, communities and businesses. The promotion of our activities will raise awareness of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and provide support and empowerment to the CRPS community. Communications will also run in line with Burning Nights CRPS Support's campaigns strategy/plan.
This is a flexible volunteering opportunity, which means your commitment can be balanced around your lifestyle - being part of a team to ensure that communications to our community and supporters are up to date and timely.
You will provide leadership for your team and support the development of a communications plan for the charity.
Key Tasks and Objectives
You will lead and support the development and implementation of a communications strategy, direction and plans for Burning Nights CRPS Support's Social Media/online communications, create engaging content, supervise the team and encourage high standards.
Tasks may include:
- Managing the Social Media campaigns across social media, which includes overseeing and creating engaging content, writing and editorial, design and artwork from The Social Media Team.
- Scheduling and posting regular social media content.
- Help develop social media campaigns and day-to-day activities.
- Prepare graphics for sharing across channels.
- Monitor the impact of social media campaigns; Analyse, review and report on effectiveness of campaigns in an effort to maximize the charity’s reach.
- Capture and report on monthly data from across all social media platform.
- Lead on Social Media meetings or the social media section of Comms meetings.
- Work with the whole Comms & Marketing Team including the Lead Communications & Marketing Volunteer to provide relevant content for their teams to use on social media, providing training/coaching where appropriate.
- Develop, manage content and maintain social media objectives and targets.
- Supporting the Social Media Team to ensure our social media platforms are regularly updated.
- Supporting with the development, preparation and implementation of Burning Nights CRPS Support's Social Media strategy in conjunction with the overall Comms strategy.
- Encouraging others to comment on our posts and share them with others, to ensure that our communications reach a wide range of stakeholders and diverse audience.
- Increasing the numbers of followers and engagement across our social media channels - Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, TikTok and X, using appropriate tools and utilising relevant channels to reach diverse audiences.
- Monitor, analyse and report on the performance of social media channels/activities using tools like Metricool, Buffer and Google Analytics, feeding back monthly to the Lead Comms Volunteer and the trustees, using the data to inform future activities.
- Keep up to date with the charity and healthcare sectors, events and news, and suggest content to promote through our social media feeds.
- Support new volunteer Social Media Team members ensuring they understand their role or assign them their role.
- Act responsibly with data held by Burning Nights CRPS Support that you may access as part of your role, adhering to guidelines and policies and reporting any concerns or possible breaches to Burning Nights CRPS Support's Data Protection Officer/Lead.
Key Skills or Qualifications
- Experience of using social media platforms, other online tools and Communications to generate interest in a charity, business or project.
- Experience of managing a team and projects.
- The ability to inspire people to act and get involved internally and externally.
- Ability to transform small snippets of information into interesting and engaging stories suitable for social media platforms.
- Good IT skills, including Google Drive, Canva, Buffer, Word and Excel.
- Experience of managing multiple campaigns, with excellent organisational and time management skills, delivering effective targeted outcomes.
- Be proactive and show initiative, with the ability to volunteer unsupervised.
- Genuine interest in supporting a small charity and a passion for campaigning for a healthcare charity.
- Be motivated and enthusiastic with proven experience and is passionate about social media and marketing, and producing tangible results.
- Good interpersonal skills dealing with people sensitively and respectfully from a wide range of backgrounds
- Strong strategic development, project management and articulate communication skills.
- Good attention to detail and accuracy, with succinct writing and proof-reading skills
- Able to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other volunteers and staff.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise and structure work schedules.
- Ability to be innovative and creative.
- Ability to be flexible and have a 'can do' approach.
- Friendly, approachable manner - able to build rapport with a range of partners and staff, and provide a collaborative team environment.
- Confidence in communicating on Zoom or by email.
Key Benefits
- Voluntary Experience: Gain practical real-world experience working in social media management.
- Supportive Team: Collaborate with a passionate team working on projects.
- Personal Development: Develop your skills in social media marketing, content creation, and community engagement.
- Portfolio content for future job applications.
- Opportunity to contribute to a meaningful cause.
Training and Support
- Full induction to our organisation, as well as check-ins, ongoing training, supervision and support from the Communications & Marketing Lead Volunteer, Volunteer Co-ordinators, Trustees and the Volunteer Team.
- Relevant and ongoing training for your volunteer role.
- Regular updates on charity activities.
- Support, advice and guidance from Charity team.
- After 3 months volunteering, all volunteers are eligible for additional training courses (reasonable cost).
- Out-of-pocket expenses, approved in advance will be reimbursed.
To drive change for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) & ensure people whose lives have been touched by this condition are not alone.



Who we are
Travel Radar provides high quality and relevant industry insight across the Commercial Aviation
& Air-Travel sectors. Having grown rapidly since 2015, we've gone on to become one of the
leading providers of Aviation News available online, and in 2023 are expanding to become the
leading digital hub for all things aviation and air-travel. With an ever-growing remote team of
over 100 staff, we bring exciting and interesting content 24/7 from around the globe to a reach
of over 30 million users per month.
Our mission to change how travel is seen, involves showing people how to make their journeys as
fulfilling as possible through providing the latest news and how to improve journey quality. This
is supplemented with providing the industry with leading edge visual content, data and job-aggregation. It’s an exciting time to become a part of Travel Radar.
What you’ll be doing
We’re on the lookout for a Social Media Intern to join our high-performance Social Media Team. Some of the things you’ll be doing week-to-week includes:
• Assisting creating creative and engaging social media strategies for our platforms,
and enacting them day to day
• Managing the day-to-day posting of a particular social media channel such as
LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok and LinkedIn
• Planning and delivering content across different platforms using scheduling tools
such as Buffer and/or Meta Business Suite
• Assisting to develop, launch and manage new competitions and campaigns that
promote Travel Radar and the brand
• Forming key relationships with influencers in the aviation and air-travel space across
your particular social media platform
• Managing and facilitating social media communities by responding to social media
posts and developing discussions, including direct messages and mentions/@’s
• Researching and evaluating the latest trends, techniques and algorithm changes in
order to find new and better ways of creating and measuring social media activity
What skills and experience you’ll bring to us
We’re all about learning and development here at Travel Radar, so we don’t expect you to know everything to apply to us! Whether you’re an undergraduate looking to gain real-world experience, a graduate looking for their first opportunity, or a seasoned professional wanting to change careers or step into management, we will support you in your journey.
Here are some of the skills that’ll be required, and some that’ll be beneficial to have:
Skill Required? Beneficial?
Proven social media or content curation experience (Required)
A passion for aviation or wider travel industry (Beneficial)
Ability to schedule content weekly (Required)
IT proficiency – ideally with Buffer/Hootsuite knowledge (Beneficial)
Strong content curation skills including Canva/Graphic Design (Beneficial)
Knowledge of data analysis and social media analytics (Beneficial)
Expert knowledge in one or more social media platforms (Beneficial)
Misc.
Reports to: Social Media Manager
Hours per Week: 10hrs/week
Regardless to your background, if this sounds like a good fit, we'd love to hear from you!
Please Note: This role is voluntary (not paid). Personal range of perks to benefit from:
Range of Perks to Benefit
�� Unlimited Leave of Absence and flexible workload
�� Flexible working arrangements - fully remote position
�� Lunch & Travel Expenses covered for physical working
✈ Discount Program with 3000 retailers from travel to shopping to car insurance
��Physical and Mental Wellbeing Support
�� Great Training and Learning Resources
�� Press Pass to attend events, conferences and airshows free
�� Latest Tech including free Office365, Grammarly Premium, Adobe Photoshop and Canva Pro subscription and access to company laptop/desktops and Virtual Machines
Our mission to change how travel is seen involves showing people how to make their journeys as fulfilling as possible whilst empowering our team!
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Calling all creatives! If you are great with words, images and ideas, and want to find a flexible, regular, voluntary opportunity with a great small charity - we'd love to hear from you!
Criminal justice charity Belong: Making Justice Happen is looking for a Communications and Influencing Volunteer to join our friendly team and play their part in helping to make our vision of a society where there is hope, rehabilitation and recovery for victims and perpetrators of crime, a reality. This role is vital in ensuring we are telling our story and sharing the impact of our work with the world. It will assist Belong in working towards our goal of helping to develop a fairer, more effective, and more humane criminal justice system.
Supported by Belong’s Operational and Senior Leadership Team, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop creative content that highlight Belong’s key messages and promote change across our three policy objectives whereby we seek to promote:
- Increased, higher quality support in communities engaging people who have offended, been victims of crime or who are at risk of offending or victimisation.
- Fairer sentencing with equal, non-discriminatory application.
- Reduced trauma and harm in prisons enabling greater productivity and rehabilitation amongst people serving prison sentences.
Place of work: Home-based
Hours of work: Flexible, depending on availability, between 2 – 4 hours per week.
Supported By: Belong’s Operations and Finance Administrator, Head of Programmes and the CEO
Tasks
- Creating high quality, engaging content, such as graphics, written pieces, audio and video, for use in press releases, as well as across Belong’s website and social media platforms.
- Keeping up to date with social media posts and news pieces relevant to Belong’s work in the criminal justice sector, to help generate ideas for use towards press releases, and in social media and website content.
- Using ideas and information from Belong’s operational, front-line team to help generate ideas for social media and website content.
- Using Canva and any other relevant design tools to design graphics.
- Using our social media scheduling software Loomly to plan the week’s content across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Linkedin.
- Taking part in fortnightly to monthly meetings to help plan and develop the effective and creative communication of Belong’s charitable work and policy messaging.
- Helping us keep in the loop with our industry by engaging with partners and peers online.
- Supporting on developing specialist campaigns.
What support will you be offered?
As part of your role we will provide you with full training, support and supervision. You will have the opportunity to meet and to work with other likeminded people who share Belong’s values of restoration, respect, inspiration, perseverance and empowerment. Belong’s administrator will be on-hand to assist with planning and sign off over email, as well as via catch ups over video call. Belong’s administrator and senior management will take part alongside you in monthly meetings to plan and develop Belong’s communications and policy influencing work.
What difference will you make?
Volunteering with Belong will give you the opportunity to use and develop your skills and make a real difference to building safer communities. You will be contributing to our growth and development, which in turn will enable us to reach a greater number of individuals, and change futures for the better, by:
- Raising awareness of Belong and our policy objectives via digital platforms. This will be measured via our annual report and monthly communications and policy influencing meetings.
- Improving press and media engagement with Belong’s work and policy objectives
- Building networks/relationships with other relevant organisations, including professionals/funders/corporates.
- Increasing followers across all platforms, with the aim of increasing the general support for Belong and engagement with our policy objectives.
- Increasing donations in accordance with priorities set out in Belong’s funding strategy, e.g. individual giving and will legacies via traffic from our social media.
If you’re seeking experience in this field or want to put your existing skills to a good cause, we’d love to hear from you. Please send us a CV and cover letter outlining a bit about why you are interested in the role and what you could do to take Belong’s communications and influencing work to the next level.
Deadline: 24 April 2026
Interviews: 6 May 2026
Post to start: ASAP