Volunteering

Communications & Marketing

For Chichester Ship Canal Trust

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We want to tell lots of people about Chichester Canal - in many different ways... Can you help us?

The Chichester Ship Canal Trust is a wholly volunteer led organisation with over 180 volunteers who carry out all tasks associated with the Canal's activities, including maintaining the canal and its banks, crewing and hosting our daily boat trips on our two passenger boats, working in our very popular café, gardening, boat maintenance and administration.

We're looking for someone - or more than one person - to work primarily with our Marketing Team to help us with internal and external communications, our website, and to support our social media activities.

The role is voluntary, working on a part-time/flexible basis, and can involve working weekdays and/or weekends to support Canal events and daily activities.

Skills

We're looking for self-starters/self-motivated people with a mix of skills.

These include an ability to communicate well in writing and verbally, being well-organised, and a willingness to be innovative and proactive when using internal and external publicity channels.

Volunteers also need knowledge of IT software including MS Office and publishing products.

About Chichester Ship Canal Trust

The Chichester Ship Canal Trust offers daily scheduled boat trips from February till October as well as popular charter trips and activities to get you closer to the water and to nature. Relax in our popular waterside Cafe and discover our industrial heritage. We offer rowing boat hire, canoe and SUP licences, fishing and walking. From the city centre, 4 miles of towpath leads to the Harbour. Run by volunteers, accessible for all.

Details

• No - DBS check required
• Yes - Equality and Diversity Policy
• No - Expenses reimbursed
  Although we do not pay travel expenses anything you pay for on behalf of the canal is reimbursed with a receipt e.g. printing costs, leaflets.
• Yes - Health and Safety Policy
• Yes - Is it fully accessible
  We have a lift to the first floor of the cafe, disabled toilet in the cafe and by the Heritage Centre.
• Yes - Ongoing support
• Yes - Suitable for physical or sensory impairment
  This role would be suitable for physical impairment. Sensory impairment would depend on how the computing / IT skills needed would be managed.
• No - Suitable for Under 18's
  Because this is a role that is mostly unsupervised and often carried out at home, it would not be suitable for U18's.
• Yes - Training provided
• Yes - Volunteer induction
• Yes - Volunteer Policy
• Yes - Volunteers covered by insurance
• Yes - Written role description

Availability

This can be a very flexible role. It requires some working at the Canal Basin in Chichester in 'face-to face' meetings as well as working at home or a hybrid mixture. Use of your own PC or laptop would be useful.

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