Volunteer Vacancies
Volunteer Vacancies
How to apply:
Digital Inclusion volunteers (Women of Wythenshawe)
Location: Wythenshawe
Commitment: 1-4 hours per week
Women of Wythenshawe (WoW) is a women-led poverty action network of 12 women’s groups who are working together to take action on gendered poverty.
Having good digital skills helps women to engage in community action effectively.
Community Led Action and Savings Support (CLASS) is a small registered charity that supports women-led community action across Greater Manchester and Sheffield. CLASS convenes the Women of Wythenshawe network and will be the recruiting and supervising organisation for this volunteer role.
Skills and personal qualities required for the role:
Patience: Have you ever helped a parent or grandparent to learn to use a tablet or a laptop? If you have the patience to do this you will be ideal for the job!
Good verbal communicator: You will be providing tailored one to one support to people with very basic IT skills over the telephone. You will need to be a good communicator, able to explain practical digital tasks clearly, taking a step-by-step approach.
Reasonable ICT skills: You do not need to be an IT expert, but if you make regular use of email, web-browsing, video-conferencing, windows explorer file systems, and cloud storage systems like G:drive and Dropbox you will have the necessary experience for sharing with others.
How to apply:
Please submit completed application forms to recruitment@class-uk.com. This is a rolling recruitment process there is no deadline.
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Digital Inclusion volunteers (Community Savers)
Location: Greater Manchester Wide
Help community group leaders keep their members active and supported, and their groups sustainable by providing tailored one to one support with digital skills.
The opportunity:
We are looking for patient and enthusiastic volunteers to build the capacity of Community Savers leaders and members – increasing their ability to participate in local community action and/or manage their group effectively.
Skills and personal qualities required for the role:
Patience: Have you ever helped a parent or grandparent to learn to use a tablet or a laptop? If you have the patience to do this you will be ideal for the job!
Good verbal communicator: You will be providing tailored one to one support to people with very basic IT skills over the telephone. You will need to be a good communicator, able to explain practical digital tasks clearly, taking a step-by-step approach.
Reasonable ICT skills: You do not need to be an IT expert, but if you make regular use of email, web-browsing, video-conferencing, windows explorer file systems, and cloud storage systems like G:drive and Dropbox you will have the necessary experience for sharing with others.
How to apply:
Please submit completed application forms to recruitment@class-uk.com. This is a rolling recruitment process there is no deadline.
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Volunteer interpreters
We are looking for enthusiastic speakers of other languages to contribute to our community-led movement!
We work with local residents, tenants and community groups across Greater Manchester and Sheffield to support them to form strong community associations and networks and to advocate on issues of concern.
You will work closely with the CLASS team and Manchester and Stockport-based community leaders to enable a broader diversity of people to participate in local community dialogues, activities and initiatives. Many people want to participate but struggle with language barriers and you would use your language skills to provide informal interpretation for them in a variety of group-based situations.
Your main duties will be informal interpretation for local residents, for whom English is a second language, during community meetings and events on an ad hoc basis.
How to apply:
Please submit completed application forms to recruitment@class-uk.com. This is a rolling recruitment process there is no deadline.
