Job Description: 

We are looking for social media and web-savvy volunteers to join our Communication Team. The communications volunteer will assist the Communications Manager with UID’s communications, promotion, branding or marketing. This position will help to gain hands-on experience and training in many aspects of marketing and development, while also gaining a good understanding of a small nonprofit organization.

 

Volunteer's responsibilities will include:

• Assisting Communications Manager with overall external and internal communications.

• Assisting with the implementation of the Strategic Development plan for communications, including newsletters (internal, external), and other related to social media tasks in general.

• Participating in the branding of specific projects, fully supporting the PR strategy  of the foundations and executing it in different phases.

• Creating and curating engaging content.

• Maintaining and updating UID social media sites. This can be done with other social media volunteers.

• Assisting in liaising with volunteer coordinators and project management team to create relevant media content for each project (promoting events).

• Assisting with certain press opportunities – press releases, sponsorship opportunities, advertisements, and promotional materials etc.

• Assisting staff with tracking, formatting and archiving reviews and other media on socio-cultural integration, alongside the research team.

• Assisting with mailings to our audience and other contacts.

• Attending the bi-weekly meetings to report and provide input. 

 

Regular commitments/meetings:

• UID’ projects, events and community outreaches.

• Regular Committee or project meetings.  

• Attend the bi-weekly meetings to report and provide input from the Social Media POV for overall marketing efforts for UID’s project and UID in general for the year.

 

Skills:

• You are energetic, inventive and hard working with ideas about creative ways to engage audiences in achieving the organization’s mission.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, the knowledge of Dutch is an advantage.

• Knowledge and experience with social media platforms.

• A commitment to professional ethics and abilities to handle sensitive and confidential information.

• Ability to work independently and in a team of multicultural individuals.

• Affinity with Graphic design platforms and  Website content management system is a plus.

 

• We require two letters of recommendation sent directly by referee to email address  hello@uidnl.org and copy j.dicataldo@uidnl.org.

• You will be provided with a template to request such letters.

• If interested,  please send your CV and a short motivation letter (max. 500 words) to hello@uidnl.org and please copy j.dicataldo@uidnl.org.

• All successful applicants will be required to commit  a minimum of 10 to 15 hours per week to volunteer.  Minimum period for volunteering is 6 months. Start date for this position is immediate. On occasion we can accept applicants who have lesser months to volunteer.