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Web Editor Volunteer

Web Editor Volunteer Role Description

Are you passionate about changing the way we treat animals? Do you want to help reduce damage to our environment? Do you want to get people to enjoy healthy vegan food that looks good and tastes great? 

The Vegan Society makes veganism more accessible and an easily adopted approach by supporting individuals, policy and decision makers, caterers, manufacturers, health care professionals and the media. 

Why do we need you? 

Our website covers a huge range of topics, aimed to support people in becoming, and staying, vegan. Keeping all of these up to date takes a lot of hours and many hands, especially when it comes to pages that need regular updates involving sourcing and editing images, improving accessibility, and updating content.  

What does the role involve? 

The role will involve a variety of different tasks in updating the website such as: 

  • Assisting the web team with content migration for the society’s new website.
  • Adding and updating the events page, which will include editing images and proofreading content for the page. 
  • Reviewing and fixing pages with broken links. 
  • Publishing and updating recipes on our recipes page. 
  • Supporting with accessibility improvements to the site such as adding alt tags to images. 
  • Undertaking search engine optimisation tasks, such as identifying key search terms and popular pages we could develop. 
  • More advanced web editing and development tasks may be offered to volunteers depending on their skillset and level of experience. 

We expect that tasks will be assigned based on your experience and confidence in the area, with full support from the Web Officer. This would all happen in software we provide. Our website CMS currently is Drupal; however, we will be moving over to Umbraco soon, so you would become familiar with this.  

What training and development is available? 

Each task will be introduced in a phased way, with a full induction and training session on each area. We will provide training for specific areas, based on your existing experience. There are opportunities for all our roles to develop and to take on more responsibility.

What skills would be useful in doing this role? 

  • Familiarity with content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal or Umbraco would be an ideal foundation for this role. 
  • Experience with web editing. 
  • Ability to use digital systems and processes. 
  • Knowledge and experience of image editing to specific dimensions. 
  • Ability to work independently. 
  • Willingness to learn and develop in the role. 

 What does my availability have to be? 

This role will require four to six hours a week. For the first month of volunteering, you will need to commit to these hours between 9:am-5:pm (GMT) so that staff support is directly available to you. After this we will have a review and, if you are comfortable, your hours can be completed more flexibly around your schedule. To keep up contact with staff and help you to manage your tasks, we will schedule a weekly check-in video call with you during weeks that you are volunteering for us. 

 Who can I contact to find out more? 

You can contact Kaya (Senior Volunteering and Engagement Officer) and Emma (Web Officer) on [email protected]. You can also call us on 0121 523 1730.  

 


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