Fulham Palace Trust
Since 704 Fulham Palace has been the historic house and garden of the Bishop of London. Our vision is to engage people and provide an insight, through the stories of the Bishops of London, into over 1300 years of English history, and to become one of Great Britain's most loved and inspiring historic houses and gardens.
Description
Our volunteer communications assistants support the volunteer development officer with volunteer communication activities, mainly through writing blogs, updating content for the newsletter and updating our dedicated website for Fulham Palace volunteers.
What’s in it for you?
- The opportunity to improve your technical communication skills
- Gain experience in creating and collating content for a website visited by around 200 volunteers
- Develop your experience of writing professional blog posts
- Work across multiple departments promoting volunteering and the work of our volunteers
- Become part of a vibrant and dedicated team
- Meet people from all walks of life and make new friends
- Be involved with a positive and engaging volunteer culture including social events, outings and forums
- A reference when you have volunteered with us regularly for 6 months
Duties
- Developing, scheduling and publishing regular content on the Fulham Palace Trust Volunteer Portal
- Encouraging and engaging volunteers to contribute content to the website
- Carrying out occasional interviews with volunteers and staff members to create content for the blogs.
- Monitoring the website’s forum and web analytics.
- Regularly updating the website’s events calendar with volunteer training opportunities, events and other relevant information
- Supporting the training of fellow volunteers on the website
- Monitoring the website’s forum and web analytics
- Identifying opportunities for improvements to the website and problem solving where necessary
- Helping the Volunteer development officer curate the volunteers newsletter.
Who will the volunteers be working with?
Communications assistant volunteer will work with the volunteer development officer and other volunteers.
Training
• Volunteers will be given training to carry out and develop in your role including Squarespace and Mailchimp training
• All volunteers have a named supervisor and regular opportunities to discuss their work
• Full induction including health and safety procedures
• All new volunteers have an introduction period, this is a settling in time of around 2 months. At the end of this an appropriate person will catch up with you; this is an opportunity for both parties to reflect and make any adjustments to the role that are needed
• All volunteers have a named supervisor and regular opportunities to discuss their work
• Full induction including health and safety procedures
• All new volunteers have an introduction period, this is a settling in time of around 2 months. At the end of this an appropriate person will catch up with you; this is an opportunity for both parties to reflect and make any adjustments to the role that are needed
Time commitment
• Flexible but generally a day or half day per week.
• Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays.
• There are opportunities to work from home occasionally. Volunteers must keep in regular contact with the Volunteer Development Officer and attend a planning meeting every 3 months.
• Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays.
• There are opportunities to work from home occasionally. Volunteers must keep in regular contact with the Volunteer Development Officer and attend a planning meeting every 3 months.