Campaigning Volunteer Roles
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General Election Campaign Volunteer
Do you want to help the fight to end the Housing Emergency? Do you have an interest in politics, campaigning or organising events and activities?
We are looking for volunteers to support local campaigning activity throughout our General Election campaign. This will be a varied role, with options to get involved in whichever elements of planning or campaigning that interest you most, as well as providing the opportunity for you to utilise your existing skills or learn some new ones.
This volunteer role is open to everyone, however we’re particularly keen to hear from people with personal experience of the housing emergency, for example of living in poor conditions or facing eviction. We’d love you to join us to use your experiences to fight for change!
Suggested Involvement: Contributing approximately 8 hours/days per week during our hub hours of Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm. This opportunity will run up until the General Election.
Location: Shelter Sheffield Hub
Supervised by: Jamie Hine (ETEL/Volunteer Coordinator)
Our General election Campaign:
The current government were elected in 2019, which means that the next general election has to happen by January 2025. This is why we've launched our General Election campaign. We know that by working together we can make our voices heard and influence political parties to prioritise housing in their election manifestos.
Our manifesto, which was created with the help of 75 people with lived experience of the housing emergency, calls for the next government to:
1. Build a new generation of social homes.
2. Make renting affordable.
3. Raise the standards in rented homes.
4. Strengthen housing rights across the board.
Main tasks
This is a varied role, volunteering alongside the hub General Election team on tasks, which could include some, or all, of the following:
· Planning campaign tactics and/or stunts
· Supporting with delivery of campaign tactics and/or stunts
· Amplifying the campaign on social media
· Encouraging members of the public to take campaign actions e.g. signing petitions or sharing social media posts.
· Speaking with people both inside and outside Shelter about the campaign
· General administrative tasks.
Skills and experience required:
· An interest in campaigning, politics or social justice
· Good communication skills
· Ability to manage your own time and task load.
· Ability to collaborate with a team.
· Willingness to follow Shelter’s policies, including Volunteering, Health & Safety, Equality & Diversity, Confidentiality and Data Protection.
Induction, learning & development:
To enable you take part in this opportunity Shelter will
· Provide a volunteer pack including a Handbook and all Policies and Procedures.
· Provide an induction into your role.
· Provide you with the skills to campaign for change.
· Provide access to our learning on data protection, safeguarding and screen wellness as well as other appropriate role specific training.
· Reimburse “out of pocket” expenses in line with Shelter’s volunteer expenses policy.
Benefits of Volunteering with Shelter
· Supporting Shelter in our fight against bad housing and homelessness.
· Gain valuable experience and enhance your CV.
· Meet new people and be part of a great team.
· Build your confidence and develop transferable skills.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
NIDAS supports women and families with all aspects of domestic abuse with confidential support and a variety of bespoke services. NIDAS, located in Mansfield, helps women to stay safe, grow their self-esteem and go on to build happy, healthy relationships. We believe being free from abuse is only the start of the journey.
Role Description
The role of the Chair of Trustees is to give leadership to the board and to make sure the board fulfils its duties and responsibilities. Additionally, the Chair of Trustees works closely with the CEO to support her/him to achieve the aims of NIDAS, and, at times, represent NIDAS at functions, meetings and in the press, and broadcasting media.
Level of Commitment
- Six-weekly board meetings
- Participating in a sub-committee and/ or ad hoc groups
- Regular meetings with the CEO
- Represent NIDAS at various events and meetings with stakeholders
Duties
In addition to the responsibilities of a trustee, the Chair of Trustees' duties are to:
- Provide leadership to the organisation and the board by ensuring that everyone remains focused on the delivery of its charitable purposes in order to deliver the greatest public benefit.
- To ensure that the Annual Reports and accounts are produced at the end of each year for presentation to the Annual General Meeting and to ensure that they are forwarded to the Charity Commission within the appropriate time period.
- Chair and facilitate board meetings and the Annual General Meeting encouraging full participation by all attending.
- Establish sub-committees and working groups to address specific issues/tasks as deemed appropriate by the board, and to call upon specialist skills of his/her fellow Officers and Trustees in relation to those groups, and to participate in such groups as appropriate.
- Give direction to board policy making.
- Check that decisions taken at meetings are implemented.
- Represent the organisation at functions and meetings and act as a spokesperson when appropriate.
- Bring impartiality and objectivity to decision making.
- Liaise with the CEO to keep an overview of the organisation’s affairs.
- Lead the process of supporting and appraising the performance of the CEO.
- Sit on senior appointment, and disciplinary panels.
The Chair of Trustees will also work with the CEO to:
- Plan and set the agenda for the Annual General meeting with the Secretary.
- Plan the annual cycle of board meetings and agendas for each meeting with the Secretary.
- Develop the board of trustees including induction, training, appraisal and succession planning.
- Address conflict within the board and within the organisation, and liaise with the CEO to achieve this.
Person Specification
In addition to the specification for a trustee, the Chair of Trustees requires the following qualities:
- Strong leadership skills
- Experience of chairing meetings and/or committee work
- Ability to balance tact and diplomacy with willingness to challenge and constructively criticise
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Impartiality and fairness
- Good understanding of legal duties, responsibilities, and liabilities of trusteeship.
- Previous trusteeship
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
The Place at Platt Lane are looking for committed and enthusiastic volunteers to join our friendly & dedicated team to assist the community hub with our daily local food collection.
If you are passionate about helping the community, tackling food poverty and reducing food waste we would like to hear from you.
About the role:
We have an agreement with our local Aldi where we will collect the food & household items that they cannot sell on a daily basis. – This can be damaged items or packs with an item missing, or excess stock that is close to its best before date - we can split them into individual items/portions to help feed families.
The volunteer will collect the items and sort and place them on our collection table to be shared for those who are struggling to put a meal on their table.
We also have a donation basket at the local Aldi which enables shoppers to buy an extra item to donate to our cause.
We do the collection Monday – Saturday so ideally we would like to split this role between 3 or 4 volunteers who can commit to agreed shifts. Approx 1 hour per day, anytime between 10am & 12:30pm
The Aldi is located on Lloyd street – 2 minutes’ walk from The Place at Platt Lane – Having your own vehicle will be useful but not essential as we normally walk over with the trolly. Occasionally it may take two trips to gather all the items.
About you – Attributes required for this role:
You will need to be in good health and have a good level of fitness to be able to carry out this role as it involves pushing a large trolly over to and from the Aldi or carrying items to your vehicle and bringing them back to the community hub.
You may be lifting and carrying crates and unloading the food so this role is not suitable for anyone that cannot carry out these physical tasks.
Have a non-Judgemental attitude and have an understanding of others needs and are able to demonstrate empathy to those who are relying on food donations.
Good time keeping - It is important that you are punctual and reliable as if we can’t collect food we have nothing to put on our collection table for that day. Report any absence to the relevent member of staff as soon as possible.
Enthusiastic about supporting families in the local community.
Good organisational skills would be useful for this role.
You will be required to complete some basic mandatory training which is accessed via our online training platform, you can complete this in our I.T suite if you wish.
Are able to follow direction and adhere to our policies and procedures.
We ask that you can commit to a minimum of 3 months Volunteering.
If you are able to commit to a miniumum of 1 hour between 10am & 12:30pm on any day - Monday – Saturday then please register your interest – you will then be asked to complete our short application form.
Benefits for you:
Gain experience of being a part of a valued community project & playing an active role in tackling food poverty and reducing waste.
You will receive a full induction, training and support from experienced staff.
Meet new people and get involved with the community.
Increase confidence and learn new skills.
Be part of a friendly and supportive team.
Mandatory training certificates such as Food Safety & Hygiene and Moving & Handling.
Access to our online training platform where you can choose from a number of courses to gain understanding of other subjects & add to your CV.
Travel expenses – A Day Rider bus pass is provided to those using public transport. (We ask that anyone applying for the position lives within a reasonable distance of Fallowfield due to funding limitations.)
If using your own vehicle you will be reimbursed milage including to and from Aldi if you choose to use your car for the collection.
A reference for future employment - Subject to at least 3 months satisfactory volunteering.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Location: Remote/Hybrid
Salary: Unpaid
Commitment: 10-15 hours per week, work can be done at times to suit you with occasional time bound interviews and team meetings scheduled to suit your schedule (corporate speak for: ‘we’ll ask when works for you first!’)
Role length: 12 months +
About us
Go Inspire International C.I.C. is a women founded charity with the purpose of bringing women together to grow and thrive as a community. We believe that the world will be a better place when all women are supported to become the best versions of ourselves, and that this will allow us to better challenge the discrimination we face.
We do this by creating community centres for women, delivering wellbeing education through our events and media platform and creating a resource hub to connect women to all the information and support they need.
Our core values are equality, intersectionality, sustainability, social connection, excellence and fun. These values permeate everything we do here at Go Inspire International C.I.C.
If you’ve ever wanted to experience working in a place where you and your ambition are fully seen, appreciated and supported, and you want to join a really fun, high energy, full of laughs and mega supportive team then this is the opportunity for you.
Job Description
We’re looking for an ambitious PR Manager to work directly alongside our CEO to help us rapidly grow the positioning of Go Inspire International C.I.C.
This role will involve:
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Developing and executing our PR strategy
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Building relationships with the media
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Working alongside the marketing team to ensure we’re all saying the same thing
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Building the positioning of Go Inspire UK
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Creating data collection and analysis systems to be able to assess and report progress and inform future strategy
Note: This role has been designed for a year to support in building and managing our systems and process but we would love to have you longer if it works for us both.
About you
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You’re bold and confident in reaching out to people and building connections.
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You are a mega people person
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If you have experience in client management/pipeline software that’s handy but not vital as we can teach you that :)
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Awesome networker and relationship builder
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Experience in creating and managing a PR or sales strategy is awesome.
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Able to: Research, build and manage a media list, manage relationships, create and produce reports.
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You’re confident in taking ownership of developing and managing our PR strategy and
Note: please do apply if you don’t tick all the above boxes. More than experience, we make decisions on team fit, willingness to grow and ambition
What we can give you
We care deeply about creating a team and environment that people love to be a part of, and not just so we can say that in our marketing! As such, we work hard to make sure that you:
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Are part of a connected team with regular meet ups and social events.
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Get the support to achieve your personal and professional goals.
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Get regular feedback to make sure you’re on track and growing.
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Have the opportunity to flex your creativity and propose and drive ideas forward.
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Be part of building an organisation that creates real positive impact in empowering women to not just survive, but to thrive.
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Work in a way that suits you and your unique needs, with support to identify your needs and implement solutions to meet them.
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And more than anything else, a team that sees you for who you are, and works to make sure you are reaching your true potential, your way.
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Amazing references.
And of course it goes without saying that fellow neurodiversies and those who think differently are so very welcome and celebrated in this space!
How to apply and what happens next
Please fill in the following application form, no need to attach a CV. If we think you could be a good fit we will invite you for an interview with the relevant member of the leadership team.
We will do our best to get back to you if we don’t think this role is for you but due to the high number of applications this isn’t always possible. If you don’t hear from us for two weeks do feel free to reach out, but often this means you didn’t get through to interviews this time.
Please don’t let this put you off from applying for other roles with us in the future though :) We love to hear from you and appreciate the time you put into the applications.
Any questions?
Get in touch with us.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Marina (CEO)
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Location: Hybrid
Salary: Unpaid
Commitment: 15-20 hours per week, work can be done at times to suit you with occasional time bound interviews and team meetings scheduled to suit your schedule (corporate speak for: ‘we’ll ask when works for you first!’)
Role length: 12 months +
About us
Go Inspire International C.I.C. is a women founded charity with the purpose of bringing women together to grow and thrive as a community. We believe that the world will be a better place when all women are supported to become the best versions of ourselves, and that this will allow us to better challenge the discrimination we face.
We do this by creating community centres for women, delivering wellbeing education through our events and media platform and creating a resource hub to connect women to all the information and support they need.
Our core values are equality, intersectionality, sustainability, social connection, excellence and fun. These values permeate everything we do here at Go Inspire.
If you’ve ever wanted to experience working in a place where you and your ambition are fully seen, appreciated and supported, and you want to join a really fun, high energy, full of laughs and mega supportive team then this is the opportunity for you.
Job Description
We’re looking for an ambitious, visionary and motivated Managing Director to work directly alongside our CEO to help us rapidly grow Go Inspire International C.I.C.. This will be a very fast paced role with lots of variety and will involve:
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Being a point of contact for our marketing and events staff
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Ensuring all activities are inline with our top level goals and objectives, values and purpose
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Working alongside the leadership team to develop and implement organisational goals and objectives in line with our values and purpose
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Creating data collection systems and processes
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Understanding data from our activities and collating and reporting this data to the leadership team and trustees board
Note: This role has been designed for a year to support in building and managing our systems and process but we would love to have you longer if it works for us both.
About you
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This is a fast paced, think on your feet kind of job so if perfect if you have bucket loads of enthusiasm and energy and like to learn on the go.
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You need to love people and be able to manage and motivate a team
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You gotta be hyper organised and shit hot at time management
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Any experience in developing and implementing organisational systems and processes is awesome.
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Need to have a team player mindset for this role, a huge part of it is making sure everyone is excited, engaged and on the same page.
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This is the role for you if you like variety, managing a team and a fast paced, think on your feet, high level strategy kind of thing.
Note: please do apply if you don’t tick all the above boxes. More than experience, we make decisions on team fit, willingness to grow and ambition
What we can give you
We care deeply about creating a team and environment that people love to be a part of, and not just so we can say that in our marketing! As such, we work hard to make sure that you:
-
Are part of a connected team with regular meet ups and social events.
-
Get the support to achieve your personal and professional goals.
-
Get regular feedback to make sure you’re on track and growing.
-
Have the opportunity to flex your creativity and propose and drive ideas forward.
-
Be part of building an organisation that creates real positive impact in empowering women to not just survive, but to thrive.
-
Work in a way that suits you and your unique needs, with support to identify your needs and implement solutions to meet them.
-
And more than anything else, a team that sees you for who you are, and works to make sure you are reaching your true potential, your way.
-
Amazing references.
And of course it goes without saying that fellow neurodiversies and those who think differently are so very welcome and celebrated in this space!
How to apply and what happens next
Please fill in the following application form, no need to attach a CV. If we think you could be a good fit we will invite you for an interview with the relevant member of the leadership team.
We will do our best to get back to you if we don’t think this role is for you but due to the high number of applications this isn’t always possible. If you don’t hear from us for two weeks do feel free to reach out, but often this means you didn’t get through to interviews this time.
Please don’t let this put you off from applying for other roles with us in the future though :) We love to hear from you and appreciate the time you put into the applications.
Any questions?
Get in touch with us!
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Marina (CEO)
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.