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9 people are interested
Social Media Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Homeboy Industries
Please visit the new page to apply.
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9 people are interested
Background:
Homeboy Industries it the largest and most successful gang rehabilitation, reentry, and social enterprise program in the world. We have an incredible social media following with 17 channels generating up to 200,000,000 impressions per month. Learn more at HomeboyIndustries.org.
We are looking for an energetic and driven Social Media volunteer to help create content and engage with our many social channels. This position is ideal for a college student or early-career professional who is interested in learning more about social media marketing.
Responsibilities
- Generate, edit, publish and share daily content (text, images, or video) that builds meaningful connections
- Implement editorial calendars and syndication schedules
- Help with analyzing the appropriate social data/metrics, insights and best practices, and then acting on the information
- Travel to various sites throughout LA to curate social media content
Required
- **Willing to commit to at least 6 months.
- 10 hours per week, at least 5 hours per week at our headquarters or travelling locally to curate social media content.
- Familiar with facebook, twitter, and instagram.
- Basic spelling, punctuation, grammar.
- Positive attitude, detail and customer oriented with good multi-tasking and organizational ability.
- Fluent in English.
Preferred
- Expertise in photoshop, video production, and/or blog and long form content writing.
- Experience with google analytics and link tracking.
To be considered please send a short introduction to:
Salvador Sanchez
Staff Photographer and Social Media Coordinator
ssanchez@homeboyindustries.org
Please include the reason why you would like to be selected and what your prior social media experience has been. A candidate will be chosen by Dec. 15, 2015. Please do not contact us after that time. One email is sufficient. Due to the quantity of applicants, we will not be able to respond to every candidate.
More opportunities with Homeboy Industries
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Homeboy Industries
Location:
130 BRUNO ST, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012, US
Mission Statement
Homeboy Industries provides hope, support, and training to formerly gang-invovled and previously incarcerated men and women, helping them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of the community.
Description
Jobs not Jails: Homeboy Industries assists high-risk and formerly gang involved youth to become positive and contributing members of society through job placement, training and education.
Homeboy Industries is the living example of "nothing stops a bullet like a job." Free services and programs include counseling, education, tattoo removal, substance abuse and addiction assistance, job training and job placement. These programs enable young people to redirect their lives. A distinctive feature of Homeboy Industries is its small businesses, where the most difficult to place individuals are hired in transitional jobs, thus giving them a safe, supportive environment in which to learn both concrete and soft job skills, while simultaneously building their resume and work experience. Homeboy Industries is the nation's largest gang-intervention and re-entry program - a national and international model of effective practices.
In providing support services, Homeboy targets and focuses on that segment of the community that faces the most difficult challenges to getting on their feet: former gang members, parolees, and high-risk youth. In the past year, former members from over half of the 1,100 gangs in Los Angeles County have come through our doors seeking specific services in an effort to turn their lives around. Homeboy has a significant impact on the reduction of violence in Los Angeles. About 12,000 former gang members and gang-impacted seek help at Homeboy each year.
Homeboy's businesses now include the Homeboy Bakery, Homeboy Silkscreen & Embroidery, Homeboy/Homegirl Merchandise, Homegirl Caf and Catering, Homeboy Farmers Markets and Homeboy Diner. However, at its heart, the true business of Homeboy Industries is not business -- it is the fostering of a community of kinship, "gang rehab", a therapeutic place where former gang members, recently released, high-risk, and those cast aside are given what they need to return to society, whole, healed and resilient. The "bottom line" for Homeboy is to infuse hope in those for whom hope is foreign. And hope is a job.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
130 W BRUNO STLos Angeles, CA 90012
DATE POSTED
November 19, 2015
SKILLS
- Marketing Analytics
- Social Media / Blogging
- Interactive/Social Media/SEO
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Must be at least 18
- 6 months, 10 hours per week.