Pro-Bono SEO Returnship for Advanced Professionals

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UniversalGiving is seeking an experienced SEO Specialist to help identify and implement effective SEO strategies at UniversalGiving ™. This seasoned professional would work directly with the CEO on a wide range of projects to improve our website.

UniversalGiving's Returnships offer exciting opportunities to those wishing to make a significant impact and contribution to our global communities. We are interested in people who want to expand their skills while helping the world.

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UniversalGiving™ , an award-winning global social-entrepreneurship nonprofit organization, is seeking an SEO Professional for a pro-bono volunteer position. We are looking for an experienced search engine optimizer with a proven track record of success improving search engine positioning. This seasoned professional would work directly with the CEO to help develop and implement effective SEO strategies at UniversalGiving™. This is a hands-on role building, implementing, measuring and analyzing optimization strategy.

UniversalGiving ™ is an award-winning website allowing people to donate and volunteer with top performing projects all over the world. Unique to UniversalGiving, 100% of a donation goes directly to the cause. UniversalGiving has been profiled on CBS and in FOX Business Network , and has also been featured in BusinessWeek Fast Company , CSRWire , WomenEntrepreneur , Oprah.com , NBC News .

Join UniversalGiving and work closely with the CEO and a dedicated international team, while contributing your skills and experience to a great mission to connect people to quality giving and volunteering opportunities worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement SEO strategies

• Optimize site structure, page content, site indexing, URL redirecting, and page indexing

• Create and launch new SEO campaigns and analyze existing SEO campaigns

• Perform keyword research and competitive analysis to maximize traffic

• Monitor traffic and rankings and analyze website to improve search rankings

• Provide regular SEO updates and reports

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree

• 5 years of professional experience with SEO concepts, strategy, and top-industry tools and resources

• Ability to work in HTML for SEO optimization

• Applied hands-on experience with Google Adwords and Google Analytics, required

• Strong interest in working with both qualitative and quantitative analyses in SEO/SEM reporting

• Clear understanding of words/phrases in SEO/SEM Campaigns which highlight our unique value proposition, and set us apart from the competition

• Ability to optimize word choices in marketing, and create concise phrases for advertising

• Close attention to detail

• General internet savvy and insight on web trends

• Very strong verbal and written communication skills

• Commitment to using and updating Salesforce, our Relationship Database

• Ability to lead projects and manage and work with a team

• Interest in nonprofit work, international issues, and philanthropy

• Full support of the mission and vision of UniversalGiving™

Benefits:

• Contribute to UniversalGiving’s work to create a world where giving and volunteering are a natural part of everyday life

• Work directly with the CEO

• Experience at a unique global, social-entrepreneurship nonprofit

• Collaboration within a positive team environment

• Increased understanding of global issues

• Networking with other nonprofit professionals

Duration: Minimum 15-20 hours per week required for the duration of the Returnship, at least a minimum of 3 to 4 months. Ideal candidates are available to work out of our San Francisco office 3-4 days/week (Monday through Friday) with possibly some work completed remotely.

Testimonial:

" I came to UniversalGiving at a time when I was looking for a way to have more meaning with my work. After years in management consulting, finance, and then home raising two young children, I was ready to give back to the world in a different way. I began as a volunteer in their Returnship program and four years later, am leading Operations. UniversalGiving is a professional environment that has given me meaning, experience in new realms, and flexibility in my work schedule. I am so proud to be a part of this amazing team that is doing great things in the world."

Adriana Rabkin

Senior Manager, Operations

About UniversalGiving

UniversalGiving ™ is an award-winning website allowing people to donate to and volunteer with top performing projects all over the world. We partner with NGOs to provide you with direct ways to support children, disaster relief, the environment, human rights and many other issues you care about in hundreds of countries around the world. Our projects are vetted through a proprietary Quality Model™ to ensure the most effective, trustworthy philanthropy possible. Unique to UniversalGiving, we take no cut on donations. 100% of your donation goes directly to the cause.

UniversalGiving Corporate consults with Fortune 500 companies on the strategy, operations and NGO Vetting for their international giving and volunteering programs all over the world. Some clients include Cisco, Symantec, Fluor, Sabre, MTV.

Located in the heart of San Francisco, UniversalGiving has been profiled on CBS and in FOX Business Network , and has also been featured in BusinessWeek Fast Company , CSRWire , WomenEntrepreneur , Oprah.com , NBC News , The Christian Science Monitor , The New York Times , The Financial Times , MarketWatch , CNNMoney.com , Change.org and See Change Magazine . UniversalGiving has been voted as one the top nonprofits on Great Nonprofits in 2012, and was a Webby Award Honoree.

CEO Pamela Hawley is a winner of the Jefferson Award (the Nobel Prize in Community Service) and was selected as one of 50 leaders to the White House's Next Generation Leadership and Social Innovation event. She is a Finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award , and a Colburn S. Wilbur Leadership Fellow at the Global Ethics Institute. She is a Fast Company Expert Blogger on CSR.

UniversalGiving’s Mission : We Connect People to Top Performing Opportunities Worldwide.

UniversalGiving’s Vision : "To Create a World Where Giving and Volunteering Are a Natural Part of Everyday Life."

To Apply:

Email your resume, cover letter, and writing sample (2 pages max) to volunteers@universalgiving.org with "SEO Returnship" in the subject line. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. No phone calls please.

UniversalGiving™ is committed to understanding and representing the diverse populations it serves worldwide. Members of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, races, ethnicities, nationalities, physical abilities or disabilities, religions or beliefs, and cultures are welcome as employees and volunteers in our organization. We believe that a diverse team will best serve our diverse populations.

For more information please visit:

• UniversalGiving’s website

• UniversalGiving’s Blog: PhilanthroPost

• CEO Pamela Hawley’s Blog: Living and Giving

• Follow Us on Twitter: @ UniversalGiving and @ PamelaHawley

• Like us on Facebook