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We are looking for an Intern for the Volunteering for All Campaigns team.
Salary and benefits: voluntary position, basic expenses paid
Duration: 3 months, from March 2008
Location: Central London
Hours: to be agreed
Media Trust works in partnership with the media industry to build effective communications for the charity and voluntary sector. Media Trust is a creative and passionate charity committed to delivering innovative services, including: training, film production, campaigns and Community Channel, a multi-platform national digital TV brand for the voluntary and charitable sector. We are based in the heart of London but work across the UK. Staff join us from top organisations across the media industry and not-for-profit sector. The benefits of working with us include flexible working options, career development & training, and 2 paid days a year to volunteer for the organisation of your choice.
Media Trust corporate members include:
BBC, BSkyB, Channel 4, Daily Mail and General Trust, Discovery Networks Europe, Emap plc, Guardian Media Group, ITV, MTV Networks UK & Ireland, News International, Newsquest Media Group, Time Warner Corporate, Walt Disney International and WPP Group.
Background
Volunteering for All
‘Volunteering for All’ is a two-year, Government funded programme designed to contribute to the Government’s target to raise levels of participation of socially excluded communities in volunteering.
The programme has three main components:
• Awareness-raising campaigns, led by Media Trust, which will reach out to communities in creative ways to stimulate demand for formal volunteering
• Tackling barriers to volunteering through crosscutting government-led policy work. For example, current work to clarify the application of benefits rules to volunteers.
• Opportunity Partnerships, demonstration projects, which will highlight the range and depth of volunteering opportunities that excluded communities, can participate in.
The project’s target is to actively involve the government’s target groups in volunteering. These priority groups are:
• people with no formal qualifications
• people from Black and Ethnic Minority Communities (BME)
• people with disabilities and/or limiting long-term illness (LLTI)
V4All centres on the over 25’s and targets four geographical regions which have lower than average levels of volunteering: North East, North West, Yorkshire / Humberside and London.
Role description
At present, Media Trust is leading on a variety of high-profile campaigns activity, designed to target the above groups and regions, with the aim of increasing awareness and take-up of volunteering amongst these groups.
The role of the chosen candidate will involve working closely with the Campaigns Team at Media Trust, and will include:
• Assisting with organisational elements of the campaigns, e.g. event planning; liaising with the media
• Working with various contacts, to develop a comprehensive list of voluntary organisations and charities, particularly those connected with the target groups
Person Specification
The appropriate candidate will ideally have knowledge and experience of similar campaigns, and will have a range of skills in the following areas:
• A good understanding of the media and PR industries
• A good understanding of volunteering and the problems associated with recruitment of volunteers from our priority groups.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines, dealing with a range of organisations and juggling responsibilities accordingly.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• A commitment to diversity and equal opportunities.
Please send your CV and covering letter to evaf@mediatrust.org, or email for more information
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