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. 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. Barnardo’s Social Media & Digital Champions will be part of Barnardo's Portsmouth Special Education Needs and Disability Information and Advice Service (known as SENDIASS) who provide information, impartial advice and support to children and young people with Special Educational Needs (SEN) and/or a disability and their parents and carers. ### Why we want you Do you have a passion for all things digital? We are looking for Portsmouth-based social media and digital design gurus, ideally with some knowledge, understanding and experience of special educational needs, to help get Portsmouth SENDIASS on the digital map. ### What you will be doing #### Social media - Posting meaningful 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 and helping to report insights to the team. #### Digital - Designing and maintaining our Padlets (digital information boards) - Using Canva, design on-brand content for use in presentations, on our website and on socials - If you have video skills, we would love to use those too to create webinars and short clips for families to access. You don’t need to be able to do all of the above (and it’s not an exhaustive list), but if any take your interest we’d love to hear from you.
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
