Communications professional

Title:  Communications volunteer

Summary

Help us grow and engage our audiences by creating communications materials for us to use externally and across our website, social media, print materials and newsletter, so that we can help support the mental health of more women across Sussex.

Description

Our charity delivers counselling and therapeutic groups for women across Sussex. We are looking for an experienced communications professional to work with to support with all or some of the following:

Communications:

·         Help to create a communications plan with the CEO, mapping out key activities and campaigns over the year

Social media:

·         Assess our current social media and make recommendations to improve content and engagement

·         Design and create weekly posts and reels using Canva

·         Create 1-3 social posts per week

Newsletter:

·         Re-purpose key social posts for our monthly e-newsletter, using MailChimp

Outreach:

·         Build a partner communication list and liaise with key organisations and share key materials with them, such as leaflets and information about our services to raise our profile

·         Build contacts and reach out to potential press to raise awareness of our organisation

Events:

·         Assist with fundraising events and promotion of these from the Brighton 10K run, our Christmas raffle and party.

You will be working with the CEO who will provide our existing brand/style/logo guidelines and brand research/user personas.

What impact will they have?

Your creative output will shape how we present ourselves to our clients and funders. With your help we will be able to continue to reach and support more women across Sussex.

About the volunteer

Description

We are looking for a volunteer who:

·         Has experience in creating and writing communications materials such as social media posts

·         Ideally has experience in Canva and MailChimp

·         Has the ability to quickly understand the needs of our team / organisation / participants

·         Has good communications and organisation skills

·         Understands the resource constraints of a small charity and is able to work with these.

Skills

·         Marketing and communications

Where and when

Location

Can be fully remote or partly remote if based near Brighton.

Time

Time commitment

·         0-6 hours / week – the role could be an ongoing role

Volunteer availability

Either inside or outside office hours.

Application details

Application instructions: please send published content examples (social, blog or e-newsletter posts) a CV and details of your availability and interest in the role