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Flexible Schedule
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Virtual Opportunity
Organization overview: Established in 2021, Captain Scott Legacy Society (CSLS) is on a mission to inspire and empower people of all ages to find meaningful purpose in their communities as volunteers. The organization strengthens the volunteer spirit through impactful storytelling, as well as accessible volunteer training and recognition initiatives. We’re on a mission to promote social good! Opportunity : As such a new non-profit organization, we are working to build trust and confidence with the public through our website. We want to establish ourselves as a leader in promoting and recognizing volunteerism in the community to keep the spirit of volunteerism healthy and strong for all ages. Job brief: We are looking for a talented Junior Web Designer to assist us in building and maintaining a new Wix website. Your role is to work with our Marketing and Copywriting team to create a custom, functional website. Ultimately, you will be able to increase web traffic, and bring more interest towards our organization’s services. Responsibilities: Designing of our proposed 10-page website (including Blog, Newsletter forms, Submission forms) Work with the Marketing and Copywriting teams to add photos and copy onto the website Advise our team on the best practices on creating an optimized Wix website Resolve bugs or defects related to the website Requirements: 1+ years experience with website design Experience with using Wix to create a functional website Good collaboration, teamwork, and learning skills Bonus: Image processing skills and experience with Adobe Suite
Date Posted: Jul 31, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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Virtual Opportunity
Organization overview: Established in 2021, Captain Scott Legacy Society (CSLS) is on a mission to inspire and empower people of all ages to find meaningful purpose in their communities as volunteers. The organization strengthens the volunteer spirit through impactful storytelling, as well as accessible volunteer training and recognition initiatives. We’re on a mission to promote social good! Opportunity: As such a new non-profit organization, we are working to build trust and confidence with the public through our website. We want to establish ourselves as a leader in promoting and recognizing volunteerism in the community to keep the spirit of volunteerism healthy and strong for all ages. Job brief: We are looking for a talented Digital Illustrator to assist us creating lively illustrations for our stories. Your role is to work with our Marketing and Copywriting teams to draw digital illustrations from written content and stories. Responsibilities: Create vibrant and engaging vector illustrations for our platform using our written content Assist in setting an aesthetic tone, vision, and standard of quality across our organization Illustrate engaging, comic-like designs from thumbnail sketches and storyboarded scripts Collaborate with marketing leads and copywriters to define and execute against various, content-appropriate illustration styles Locate opportunities to push the limits of our illustration approach and help ensure design-thinking at every turn Requirements: 1+ years of illustration experience at a content studio, media company, creative advertising agency or freelancing Proficient at Adobe Illustrator or similar Strong work ethic befitting a small, team-oriented organization Experience creating illustrations and layouts
Date Posted: Jul 31, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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Virtual Opportunity
Organization overview: Established in 2021, Captain Scott Legacy Society is on a mission to inspire and empower people of all ages to find meaningful purpose in their communities as volunteers. The organization strengthens the volunteer spirit through impactful storytelling, as well as accessible volunteer training and recognition initiatives. We’re on a mission to promote social good! Opportunity: As such a new non-profit organization, we are working to build trust and confidence with the public through our branding, marketing, and communications engagement. We want to establish ourselves as a leader in promoting and recognizing volunteerism in the community to keep the spirit of volunteerism healthy and strong for all ages. Communications students and recent graduates in the communications field would be perfect for this portfolio-building opportunity. We can provide a reference letter if needed. Job brief: We are looking for talented Communications Assistants to support a Communications Coordinator in designing, managing, and maintaining a strong online and branded presence for our non-profit organization. Your role is to implement online marketing strategies through social media accounts, online newsletters, print materials, and networking engagement to keep up a positive image of the organization in the community. Under the supervision of a Communications Coordinator, you will develop original content and suggest creative ways to attract more people to join our volunteering movement, which entails sharing their volunteer stories with us to spotlight exceptional volunteers and/or signing up and participating in our social programs or! Ultimately, you will be able to increase web traffic and subscribers, social media engagement metrics, and bring more interest towards our organization’s services. Responsibilities: Research audience preferences and discover current trends Create engaging text, image, and video content for Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and online newsletters Create artwork, designs, and edit photos using Canva and/or other editing software Design posts to sustain readers’ curiosity and create buzz around the charity’s services using an available branding guide Measure web traffic, social media engagement metrics, and monitor SEO Stay up-to-date with changes in all social platforms ensuring maximum effectiveness Initiate, facilitate, and follow up with online conversations with local non-profits, companies, and the public, as well as respond to queries that come up Follow a posting social media content calendar, considering web traffic and engagement metrics Design and prepare in-print marketing communications materials for the organization as needed Create and execute designs and concepts for the website using Wix as needed Any other communications-related tasks Requirements: Work or volunteer experience in the communications industry and/or a strong interest to learn and participate in the sector A willingness to learn and receive support from a team Working knowledge in using and marketing with multiple social media platforms, particularly Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn Working knowledge and/or a strong interest in learning about SEO, keyword research and Google Analytics Working knowledge and/or a strong interest in marketing strategies, e-newsletters, graphic design, and branding Ability to deliver creative content through design (text, image and video) Excellent communication skills Multitasking and analytical skills Assets: Education in marketing, graphic design, web design/development, new media, or a relevant communciations field
Date Posted: Jul 31, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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Virtual Opportunity
Organization overview: Established in 2021, Captain Scott Legacy Society (CSLS) is on a mission to inspire and empower people of all ages to find meaningful purpose in their communities as volunteers. The organization strengthens the volunteer spirit through impactful storytelling, as well as accessible volunteer training and recognition initiatives. We’re on a mission to promote social good! Opportunity : Our biggest priority at Captain Scott Legacy Society is to generate and amplify positive narratives around volunteerism. Often, the media continually churns out stories that are the most sensational- capturing only the extreme elements of a community. CSLS aims to balance the media’s stories and provide more representative coverage of the community by curating and sharing stories and articles about volunteers and other topics related to volunteerism. The writer will contribute content that will be shared on our public-facing platforms, including our social media, blog, newsletters, digital community magazine, and in-print marketing material. English major students and recent graduates in the writing field would be perfect for this portfolio-building opportunity. We can provide a reference letter if needed. Job brief: We are looking for a talented content writer to be a megaphone for volunteerism. They will use the power of storytelling to tell positive, heartwarming stories that people care about. They may be researching, interviewing, and/or writing a story about a volunteer’s specific volunteer impact or writing about general volunteerism topics. The goals of the story content are to engage with volunteers on topics that interest them; build a volunteer community that feels appreciated; recognize and validate volunteers and the important work that they do; and support local small-to-medium nonprofits with their volunteer recruitment and retention efforts. Responsibilities: Pitch, prepare, write and/or produce interesting stories about volunteers and/or volunteer topics such as benefits of volunteering, upcoming volunteer opportunities, social causes and justice, how to be a better volunteer, etc. Edit multimedia and traditionally written content focusing on volunteer stories and recognition Interview volunteers from various causes and non-profits, both local and national, to develop stories Network on behalf of the organization in order to find and develop more stories Liaise with various creative professionals including journalists, videographers, communication specialists, if available Requirements: Work or volunteer experience in the content writing industry and/or a strong interest to learn and participate in the sector Excellent communication and interviewing skills Multitasking and analytical skills Must hold oneself to professional standards Interest in sourcing stories that are diverse and inclusive Commitment to continued learning A willingness to learn and receive support from a team Assets: Education in writing, and/or communications field, experience with SEO, passionate about social justice and influencing change through storytelling journalism
Date Posted: Jul 31, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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Virtual Opportunity
Organization overview: Established in 2021, Captain Scott Legacy Society (CSLS) is on a mission to inspire and empower people of all ages to find meaningful purpose in their communities as volunteers. The organization strengthens the volunteer spirit through impactful storytelling, as well as accessible volunteer training and recognition initiatives. We’re on a mission to promote social good! Opportunity : At CSLS, we want to make volunteering a part of every person’s life story! To make volunteering more accessible and powerful as an activity, we are developing an online learning platform that contains self-paced module courses that support both aspiring changemakers and seasoned volunteers. Courses will span a variety of topics, including: volunteering basics, foundational education on causes and cause-related topics, nonprofit skills, and/or volunteer-related topics. Think of the volunteer training hub as professional development, but for volunteers! Let’s shift the culture of volunteering to one that recognizes volunteer work as real work that requires valuable training and skill-building opportunities. Our belief is that informed people will participate in volunteer work and consistently give back. If you see and understand the power of education and awareness in guiding meaningful action, then you would be a great candidate for this curriculum developer position. Job brief: We are looking for a volunteer curriculum developer to help us design, research, and develop online courses that teach volunteer and social justice topics in everyday language that is accessible and engaging for youth and other community members. Responsibilities: Brainstorm, design, and produce curriculums and resource material, including lesson plans, instructional videos, slideshows, and documents for online courses on volunteerism and related topics Research and provide sources and citations to develop material Prepare graphs and tables to show data when necessary Review, edit, and improve on any existing online course content Collaborate with Communications Coordinator to organize information in the course Assess and evaluate program based off of participant feedback Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change Requirements: Education within the teaching, social work, social justice, or related field Commitment to continued learning Creative, innovative, and resourceful Excellent communication skills and experience communicating with youth and the public in a variety of formats A willingness to learn and receive support from a team Assets: Previous experience with developing online courses, toolkits, etc. from scratch
Date Posted: Jul 31, 2022
