Volunteer Volunteering Chief of Staff

What will you be doing?

EcoCounts covers a lot of bases because the climate and biodiversity crisis is so all-encompassing, which means we have a lot of varied and different volunteer tasks available, ranging from carbon footprint data collection, setting up sub-teams of friends or colleagues or doing social media or running workshops.  Your responsibilities:

keeping track of EcoCounts strategy and workflows packaging tasks from workflows into SMART goals creating engaging docs and adverts to describe of everything required and expected per task encouraging and inspiring volunteers to deliver on commitments creating an incentives or rewards framework for EcoCounts volunteers managing a small budget attending at least half of the in-person events (we meet weekly and plan to add other regular in-person events) enriching our social network for EcoCounts with news on events, collaborations, people etc able to commit at least 4 hours a week on average staying in close contact with the trustees and directors we use an online discussion board and the Signal instant messaging app potential to become a trustee if desired

This is a role that will definitely grow so we will fully support the successful candidate in identifying how that happens and how to manage the growth as it is needed, whether that means finding a second person for this role, or to organise a team of helpers, or whatever solutions we can co-create with you.

What are we looking for?

You should be a people-person with experience of successful volunteer management. You should be happy communicating with the volunteers both all-together and individually in a way that gets the best results from them.

What difference will you make?

Society has got itself into a dangerous situation with the climate crisis and EcoCounts aims to create a way out. We need all sorts of different people, not just climate nerds and sustainability fanatics, although of course that doesn't hurt. What we need right now to join the team is someone who knows what people need if they're going to be an effective volunteer for us.  Being a volunteer-based organisation at this stage still, that might make the volunteer manager the most important person we have. Of course we all consider each other equal, so being small and dynamic means EcoCounts should be an opportunity for you to do the best and most fulfilling job you can.