Volunteer Content Developer

What will you be doing?

Home-Start Worldwide is looking for a volunteer to join our very small team to help raise our profile with stakeholders by: 

Thinking through our audiences’ information needs and how we can present that effectively Web copywriting: Create engaging content for our website that adheres to SEO and brand Copywriting: Create well-written and compelling copy for use in a brochure, one-pager/fact sheet, or fundraising/promotional materials. Email content: Write compelling email content that is short, relevant and has clear a call-to-action and high click through rates Copyediting: Edit our existing copy for grammar and typos, and to make sure it is consistent with the style and voice of our organisation. Case study writing and storytelling: Help communicate our impact via stories and case studies that we can use on our website, in marketing materials, or in our annual report. Communication materials review: Review our existing communications materials. Recommend edits that will provide us with consistency in writing style and tone, accurate spelling and grammar, and a clear and engaging voice for our organisation. Brochure/annual review writing: Create or update copy for a brochure or our annual review, highlighting our impact current and potential stakeholders. Other…

You will be working in our small team and helping to build our communications capacity.

What are we looking for?

Ideal volunteer is someone who believes in what we are doing and is able to share their experience and skills in joining our team. We are a welcoming team, very supportive and from diverse backgrounds. The ideal person will enjoy working with people from all over the world and demonstrates: 

Strong writing and editing skills Understanding of use of, and ability to write for, different mediums and formats (print copy vs web copy) Experience in copywriting, marketing, public relations, communications or journalism Ability to write with SEO [web writing tasks only] and brand at front of mind using our existing voice and style Accuracy and attention to detail Ability to quickly understand the needs of our team / organisation / users Can ask key questions to enable us to clarify requirements Understands the resource constraints of a small charity and is able to work with these. Open to feedback

What difference will you make?

Your input will shape how we present ourselves to our service users, stakeholders, funders and general public. With your help we will be able to recruit more volunteers and support more vulnerable families with young children across the world have a happy and healthy start in life.