Social Media Volunteer

Our vision is for people of all ages to be safe, building ambitions for the future and reaching towards their full potential.

We know that everyone is different and has different things they want and need from us. Our focus is on you. We want to support you to reach your goals and make the changes that you want to make. That journey is different for everyone but we will help you every step of the way.

When you choose to join us, you're choosing more than just a job, you're choosing to make a difference.

We are looking for a volunteer to create social content for our Manchester Resettlement service. As a social media Volunteer, you will engage with service users, colleagues and the community and create relevant social media content.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful difference whilst gaining valuable experience.

The main purpose of this role is to set up and create content for a new social media account for Humankind's Manchester Resettlement Service. The likely platform will be Twitter and/or Facebook.

• Engage with staff, service users and volunteers to gather and share content, quotes and stories to be shared on social media. This could involve attending online group sessions or meetings, following nationwide Humankind accounts to share relevant content on local platforms, and researching relevant local organisations/networks/initiatives.

• Support with the design of this content, using templates and brand guidelines.

• Helping to promote the activities of the service.

• Adhering to data protection, safeguarding, media consent and brand guidelines.

• Having regular catch-ups with a supervising member of staff to evaluate progress.

Practical Considerations:

This role will be undertaken remotely and with flexible timings with the opportunity to spend time in the project, if the applicant is local to Manchester.
 

Please note, as this role will be partially or fully remotely undertaken we'd need to check with you that you can access the internet / have enough mobile data as we want to ensure no one is out of pocket from volunteering. 

Our workplace values are:

• Honest: we are open and realistic, building trusted relationships in which we challenge, collaborate and change.

• Committed: we are passionate about being the best that we can be, and we do this by keeping people at the heart of everything that we do.

• Inventive: we are ambitious, drawing together skills and resources to innovate and adapt in determined pursuit of our mission

Skills and qualities

• Experience using social media platforms and generating content

• An interest in / willingness to learn about recovery and substance misuse services

• Excellent verbal/written communication skills

• An understanding of the importance of guidelines and procedures relating to key areas such as safeguarding and information governance.

• Respectful and non-judgemental towards service users and colleagues

• Able to commit to the role (though flexible when that would be)

The closing date for applications is midnight on 30th September, with interviews being held shortly after.