Barnardo’s is committed to providing ‘Better Outcomes for More Children’. Our children’s services volunteers help the charity to deliver essential services in local communities, providing support to over 300,000 children, young people and their families. This role provides a great opportunity to join our fantastic children’s services and help make a real difference. **Social Media Support Volunteers** help us to keep the local community up to date with the services that we offer, as well as helping to share information from other local and national organisations. Social Media support Volunteers help us to keep the local community up to date with the services that we offer, as well as helping to share information from other local and national organisations. Are you passionate about supporting young people? Do you have the creative flair and interest in creating exciting digital content? Join The Bloom Project at Barnardo’s Swansea and help care leavers build confidence, reduce loneliness, and reach their potential. What You’ll Do • Post content onto Barnardo’s Swansea social media page • Support young people to create content for social media • Develop the Bloom Projects vlogging content alongside young people • Assist in reporting social media insights to the team. Why Volunteer? • Earn Tempo Time Credits • Gain training and experience with young people • Access to the Barnardo’s internal vacancy listing • Be part of a friendly, supportive team • Travel expenses reimbursed What are we looking for? we are looking for a volunteer who: - • Can commit attend a few hours a week on a weekday afternoon • Is friendly, approachable, and a good communicator; able to work with staff, young people, professionals, and other volunteers. Volunteers must complete an Enhanced DBS check. To learn more about this opportunity, please contact Stacey Richards at
[email protected] (Mon-Wed) or Natalie Rewbridge, Volunteer Co- at
[email protected] (Thurs-Fri). We are looking for people with good IT skills, excellent communication skills and a broad knowledge of social media platforms, to include Facebook and Twitter.
Could you help support a service to manage their social media content? Monitoring a range of social media platforms, creating meaningful content, reporting on insights, and so on?
Tasks: Posting content relating to the service onto social media platforms.
Sharing posts from other organisations on social media platforms.
Assist in effectively monitoring social media platforms.
Assist in reporting social media insights to the team.
Adhering to Barnardo's policies and procedures at all times, including Barnardo's: Safeguarding; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; Health & Safety; Data Protection; Confidentiality; Recording policies and procedures.
Participating fully in training and supervision.
Volunteering within Barnardo's Values and Behaviours.
Skills: Reliable, punctual and trustworthy.
Approachable and welcoming.
Knowledge and experience of various social media channels.
Good level of IT skills.
Benefits: Full induction and training.
Other training opportunities relevant to the volunteer role.
Regular supervision and support.
Out of pocket expenses agreed in advance.
Access to the Barnardo’s internal vacancy listing.
Our volunteers tell us about lots of other benefits of volunteering including; experience of working with children, young people and families; experience for your CV; supporting your local community; meeting new people; increasing self-confidence; feeling like you are making a difference; improving your health and wellbeing; and a chance to contribute to a worthwhile children’s charity.
Disclaimer: We look to recruit a diverse range of volunteers. If your skills don't fit the role exactly, please do not let this put you off as we are able to be flexible with most of our roles. If you are unable to apply online through the link on this page, please contact the Barnardo's Volunteering Team on
[email protected] or call us on 0208 498 7320
