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Support our XR Outreach volunteers

Group:Actions Outreach
Posted:02/04/2024
Location:From home role with XR UK (UK Wide)
Hours per week:2-4
No. spaces available:2
Meeting Time:Thurs 7:30pm
Meeting Format:Conference call
Meeting Schedule:
Essential Skills:Good team builder; Good organisational skills; Planning and communication skills.
Desired Skills:
Accessibility considerations:

The Outreach Team
Outreach is dedicated to making sure that actions and events are supported by outreach to the public and specific audiences. We do this by training volunteers to perform outreach, producing flyers, and making outreach material available to the movement.

The Team and Current Situation
We are a small team of four, but growing. We're looking to expand the scope of work for the team to include different types of outreach and mobilisation. This is being worked out currently. If you're interested in coordinating outreach, we can discuss the changes with you.
As per the usual ways that XR teams works everyone involved in the work gets a full say on everything - so you will too - and we will look to add more people to the team with specific remits, or skills, as the development of future plans progresses.

Volunteer Coordinator

We have a pool of a few hundred volunteers who are interested in Outreach and have various experience/training. Some of them are more engaged than others, and we naturally want to help each of them to get involved in whatever way they can. We need someone to 'look after' this list of people, use our tools to keep in touch with them (using bulk email, group chats, etc.), ensure they are aware of upcoming training opportunities, and work with Events coordinator to mobilise the volunteers into supporting local/national actions with Outreach.

Purpose:
A UK-wide network of people able to do outreach is maintained.

Accountabilities:

  • Support the circle to grow our pool of Outreach volunteers.
  • Securely maintain a list of volunteers with relevant information.
  • Keep warm contact with volunteers at appropriate times.
  • Signpost volunteers, where needed, to relevant training or resources.
  • Advocate for volunteers' needs in group decisions.
  • This role is being advertised by the following working group:

    Actions Outreach

    Location: XR UK (UK Wide)

    The team working to ensure that actions are well-equipped to communicate and connect with the public and to provide resources to welcome new people into XR. Accountabilities: Supporting national UK actions with teams to engage with the public; Coordinating outreach budgets and distributing resources and materials to the movement; Connecting with regions and nations to build & maintain a network of outreach teams across the country; Promoting effective outreach through the principle of active listening and empathy by providing trainings for the whole movement; Assisting Paint the Streets & other subvertising teams by providing access to support, comms, resources, designs and materials; Collecting learnings from on-the-ground experience with assets and feeding back to Creative and Design circles; Supporting Outreach Hubs during rebellions (when needed) and providing guidance on how to autonomously perform outreach effectively.

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