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Current remote volunteering opportunities:
Role description
Are you passionate about changing the way we treat animals? Do you want to help reduce damage to the 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 easily adoptable by supporting individuals, policy and decision makers, caterers, manufacturers, health care professionals and the media.
Why do we need you?
Our Media and PR Officer is the first point of contact for the media and often undertakes high-profile media interviews. They work very closely with all departments in The Vegan Society to represent the society’s voice in the media. They are looking for a Media and PR Volunteer to support them with a variety of tasks.
The Media and PR Officer also produce our podcast, The Vegan Pod. Each month on the podcast we’re joined by different guests to discuss a topical issue in the vegan realm. With athletes, vets, nutritionists and more asking questions from “Is a plant-based diet really enough to fuel an athlete?” to “Do companion animals make vegans hypocrites?”, our goal is to educate, inspire and help people on their vegan journey.
What does the role involve?
- Recommending and researching topics and guests for our podcast
- Script and cue writing
- Podcast competitor analysis
What training and support are available?
The Media and PR Officer will provide training on internal processes and will be available for short phone or video calls if required. The Senior Volunteering and Engagement Officer will be available to ensure that your volunteering experience meets your expectations.
What skills would be useful in this role?
- An interest in Media and PR.
- An understanding of what makes a good podcast.
- Strong research skills.
- An awareness and knowledge of vegan current affairs.
- Confidence to communicate any training or support needs.
- Ability to work independently.
What does my availability need to be?
For remote volunteering, we request that you are available for around 2-4 hours per week. These can be completed at a time that suits your schedule.
Who does this role report to?
You will report to the Media and PR Officer and the Senior Volunteering and Engagement Officer.
Who can I contact to find out more?
Please apply through our website and do not send CVs over email. However, if you do have a question that isn’t covered in this role description, you can contact Kaya (Senior Volunteering and Engagement Officer) on [email protected], or you can call us on 0121 523 1730.
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 videographer produces lots of video content of varying lengths. These videos are always captioned and we need a proofreader to proofread these captions.
What does the role involve?
This role will form a part of a bank of volunteers who focus on proofreading. You will need to proofread copy to a deadline using The Vegan Society Style Guide to ensure consistency across all our copy. We will contact you with a proofreading task and ask if you have the availability to take it on. If you agree, you will be given the copy as well as our Style Guide and asked to return the proofread version to your point of contact by a set date.
What training and support is available?
This is an independent role that is done remotely, and we are looking for someone who has professional proofreading experience. Contact with staff will be mainly over email and through a WhatsApp group. There is always support on hand for technical problems, helping locate resources or to talk anything through but the individual who comes on board should already have the knowledge required to proofread without training or support.
What skills and attributes are needed for this role?
- Experience of proofreading in a professional capacity or evidence of the equivalent qualifications
- Comfortable working with copy exclusively in video formats
- Ability to work independently
- Experience of working to a brief, including a deadline
- Able to communicate any training or support needs
- Comfortable receiving constructive feedback
- Open to training and development
- Understanding of the importance of an organisation’s tone of voice
- Awareness of The Vegan Society’s history, approach, and work
What does my availability need to be?
This role varies significantly in time required depending on the brief. You will only ever be expected to take on a task that you have reasonable time to complete. Ideally, we’d like all volunteers to be available for around 4 hours a month.
Who does this role report to?
This role reports directly to our videographer. You may have a different point of contact once you are in post and depending on the type of proofreading you do.
Who can I contact to find out more?
You can contact Kaya, Senior Volunteering and Engagement Officer, on [email protected], or you can call on 0121 523 1730.
Role description
Are you passionate about changing the way we treat animals? Do you want to help reduce environmental damage? Do you want to inspire people to enjoy healthy vegan food that both looks good and tastes great?
The Vegan Society aims to make veganism more accessible. We help people to adopt a vegan lifestyle by supporting individuals, policy- and decision-makers, caterers, manufacturers, healthcare professionals and the media.
Why do we need you?
Laura Chepner is our Education Officer, and she is looking for a volunteer to support her in her role. Laura has a background in education, with a degree in Primary Education which preceded a decade of teaching and a short stint in the role of SENco (Special Educational Needs Coordinator). Shortly after that, Laura theorised vegan-inclusive teaching, published An Educator’s Guide for Vegan-Inclusive Teaching and worked as the UK’s first vegan-inclusion education specialist until joining The Vegan Society.
At The Vegan Society, Laura supports vegan learners in education who have been discriminated against by acting as an intermediary between their families and the institution. Additionally, Laura supports educators by creating resources and delivering training sessions on what it means to be vegan-inclusive in their practice. Furthermore, Laura empowers parents/guardians to ask for vegan-inclusion by creating documents, with the help of The Education Network, that they can present and highlight their rights.
What does the role involve?
This role involves working alongside our Education Officer to create around 50 differentiated worksheets for teachers of key stage 1 (KS1), Year 2 to use. No lesson plans to be made – just worksheets that support the National Curriculum English programmes of study for KS1, Year 2 outcomes. Laura would delegate certain literacy areas such as ‘suffixes –ful and –less’. Once complete, we would meet online to look over and then Laura would delegate another area of literacy to be completed.
Below is an example of the type of worksheets that will be created.
‘Today I am learning to use regular plural noun suffixes – s or – es.’
These tasks are not exhaustive, and more assignments may arise as the project progresses.
What training and support is available?
The ideal candidate for this role will have a background in Primary Education and be comfortable working independently. However, we are always willing to invite volunteers along to staff training when possible and to deliver training on specific skills in-house, as identified throughout the volunteering period. This role is remote, so support from the Education Officer will be available through email and phone calls as required. Monthly reviews with the Volunteering and Engagement Officer will also be conducted to ensure the volunteer is happy in their role.
What skills would be useful in doing this role?
We are looking for a volunteer with:
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KS1 or KS2 experience
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good Microsoft Office competency
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an awareness of Vivi the Supervegan books
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confidence to communicate any training or support needs
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an ability to work independently.
What does my availability need to be?
We are looking for someone who is available for two months, starting as soon as possible. We are looking for eight hours of volunteer time per week, done across one or two working days, which are the same working days each week.
Who does this role report to?
Laura Chepner, Education Officer.
Who can I contact to find out more?
You can contact Kaya (Senior Volunteering and Engagement Officer) on [email protected].
