VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

If interested in an opportunity listed below, please send your resume and an email to Susan Ingram.

Communications Assistant

Duties:

• Interview and create profiles of clients and volunteers and/or WHH events and milestones.
• Generate human interest stories and informative articles for newsletter, blog, website and print usage.
• Analyze outcomes and strategize effective long term methods for reaching out via publications and communication vehicles of all types.

Hours:
This volunteer position requires a minimum of five to ten hours per week. We ask for a minimum six month commitment.

Qualifications:

• Commitment to WHH’s mission.
• Excellent interpersonal and oral and written communication skills.
• Storytelling skills required.
• Ability to take initiative, work well independently and in collaboration with others.
• Applicants with journalism experience encouraged to apply.

Grant Writer

Duties:

• Draft, edit, and write grant proposals.
• Work closely with WHH staff in developing grant proposals.
• Maintain comprehensive knowledge of particular areas involved in identifying and soliciting grants.
• Assist with identifying potential grant opportunities.

Hours:
This volunteer position requires an average of five to ten hours per week. We ask for a minimum one year commitment.

Qualifications:

• Commitment to WHH’s mission.
• Strong grant writing experience and proven grant contract success track record.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills.
• Interpersonal/human relations skills.
• Ability to listen and develop information into grant proposals.
• Ability to work independently and manage time effectively.
• Ability to pay attention to detail and maintain accurate records.

Public Relations

Duties:

• Strategize, implement, and analyze brand building techniques.
• Design and implement a promotion campaign for the WHH’s pilot programs.
• Identify relevant media outlets and ensure WHH is represented through them.
• Assist with media outreach by writing articles and press releases.
• Assist with any other public relations matters as needed.
• Plan and direct public relations programs designed to create and maintain a favorable public image.
• Create company literature and other forms of communication.
• Create marketing and promotional materials, both print and electronic.
• Copyedit, proofread, and revise communications.
• Design and launch email marketing campaigns.
• Create and deliver press releases, media relations content, case studies, white papers, executive bios, corporate newsletter content, social media content, and speaking proposals.
• Identify, develop and execute communications strategy for key media contacts and customer references.
• Research media coverage and industry trends.
• Develop fresh story ideas.
• Help to clarify the organization’s point of view to their main constituency.

Hours:
This volunteer position requires an average of five to ten hours per month. We ask for a minimum of six month commitment.

Qualifications:

• Commitment to WHH’s mission.
• Strong writing, editing, communications and media relations skill set.
• Experience with online marketing.
• Prior marketing/public relations experience or degree preferred.

Community Outreach

Duties:

• Initiate contact with businesses and employers.
• Attend training on sex trafficking.
• Educate employers about the harms and risks of sex trafficking and buying.
• Invite employers to prevent sex trafficking and buying within their operations through recommended best practices.
• Exhibit professionalism when directly engaging with the public.

Hours:
This volunteer position requires an average of five to twenty hours per month. We ask for a minimum one year commitment.

Qualifications:

• Commitment to WHH’s mission.
• Is friendly, trustworthy, and professional manner.
• Comfortable interacting with strangers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills.
• Interpersonal/human relations skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage time effectively.
• Ability to physically walk and to drive to different sites.
• Ability to pay attention to detail and maintain accurate records.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.