Calling All Students! Internship Opportunity
- By Chloe Tingle
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- 19 Apr, 2017
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Interested in getting some experience with us?
If you are a student looking for experience in the third/voluntary/start-up sector this summer please get in touch, we are open to ideas and suggestions and keen to take on volunteers for short periods of time over the summer.
We are currently looking for an intern to start on 8th May for 8 weeks- 2 days a week (sorry I know its exam season!).
See below for the details:
Job Description- Events and Crowdfunding Internship
Reference: NMT/120
Job Purpose: No More Taboo is a social enterprise empowering society to revolutionise the way we talk, view and manage periods. We are passionate about ensuring all women everywhere have a happier, healthier and more affordable period. Whether that is empowering a woman living in poverty in Bristol to have the confidence to access sanitary products, or helping a girl in Bolivia learn the facts about menstruation, or providing women and girls in the UK with a choice of sustainable sanitary products.
We are at a pivotal stage of our development, we are currently launching a brand new subscription box and plan to launch this through a crowdfunding campaign, the crowdfunding will start on 28th May (international menstrual hygiene day) and run for one month, we are aiming to raise a minimum of £10,000. As part of this campaign we plan to have a major Launch Event in mid-June, which we need support in organising. This is an opportunity to gain experience in event management and to have the freedom to be creative. We are already working on developing an exciting crowdfunding campaign but need support to put this into action. This is an ideal internship for anyone looking to gain experience in the not-for-profit, charity, social enterprise or start-up sector. Working in a small team you will have responsibility, will play a key role in our development and gain a wide range of experience.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
-Plan and deliver our major Launch event in mid-June.
-Marketing and promoting events and crowdfunding campaign with the support of the marketing and communications team.
-Helping with expanding networks and finding key supporters for the crowdfunding campaign.
-Helping to develop and source resources for crowdfunding campaign including video and rewards.
-Developing, coordinating and running activities for the events.
-Managing and administrating the events budgets with support from the Directors.
-Organising venue(s), communicating with venue owners exactly what is required and setting clear expectations, including preparation of venue.
-Ensuring all resources for events, such as leaflets, promotional materials and any extra equipment required for running a successful event are prepared in a timely manner.
-Promoting the events and crowdfunding with local media, including writing press releases.
-Engaging the Bristol public, through social media or other means in the build up to the event and crowdfunding.
-Managing, assisting with recruitment and training of other volunteers to help out at the event.
-General promotion of the no more taboo ethos and advocacy of the issues throughout the duration of the role.
-Assisting with general administration including answering emails, sending out invitations, preparing resources, managing the budget, keeping clear records of spending and reporting back to manager.
Full training and induction shall be provided.
Skills/attributes/knowledge/experience
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| Confident self- starter Experience of coordinating events and/or teams |
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| Committed and able to dedicate two full days each week to the role. |
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| Interested in our causes and ethos around menstruation, sanitation and the environment. |
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| Proven verbal and written communication skills |
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| Team working experience. |
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| Confidence to work on own initiative with minimum supervision but knowing when to consult with and inform others. |
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| Organised, able to set and meet own targets and goals. |
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| Happy to work from home on occasion and prepared to work in hot-desking spaces. |
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| Desirable: |
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| Creativity and imagination. Confidence to experiment. |
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| Experience of events promotion. |
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| Experience of crowdfunding or similar fundraising tools. |
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| Competent with social media and communication tools. |
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| Experience of working with the charity or not for profit sector. |
Salary: Travel and food expenses- £8 per day.
Location: Bristol with occasional working from home.
Hours: 15 hours per week (Equivalent to 2 full days but flexible)
Term: Minimum 8 weeks, 120 hours.
Reports to: Alex Kmiecik (Director)
How to Apply:
Send a copy of your C.V to chloe@nomoretaboo.org and complete the application form available here: https://goo.gl/forms/CwRTjSdbtYdYz5TW2
Closing Date: Midnight, 30th April
You will hear back from us on 1st May whether you are successfully through to interview stage or not.
Interview Date: 3rd, 4th, 5th May 2017 in Bristol, (we appreciate this is a tight timeline and will have flexibility on times of day e.g. we can interview in the evening or at a time to suit you)
Start Date: Week commencing 8th May.
Voluntary Internship working 2 days per week. Responsible for planning and running events and supporting the delivery of our crowdfunding campaign to launch a new product. Ideal internship for anyone looking to gain experience in the not-for-profit, charity, social enterprise or start-up sector.
WOW Women of the World festivals have been popping up across the world, if you get the chance to go along to one we would strongly recommend it.
WOW – Women of the World festival celebrates women and girls, and looks at the obstacles that stop them from achieving their potential.
Around the world, individuals and communities are insisting on the simple proposition that women and girls must have equal rights and asking the question: why is gender equality taking so long?
Southbank Centre's WOW – Women of the World festival is a global network of festivals which provides a platform for celebrating what has been achieved, and exploring all the ways we can change the world for the better.
What’s not to love?
Our Founder, Chloe, and her Mum Angela went along to represent No More Taboo with a stall across the two days. Here’s her highlights:
“Although we didn’t get much time to take in all the discussions as we were kept busy wo-manning the stall (thanks Mum for helping out)! We had some great discussions around gender, equality, inclusivity and of course periods with new customers, supporters, other panellists and some old friends who came to see us.
In fact, we were really pleased to catch up with Plan International UK who were opening the festival with a discussion about Period Activism exactly one year on since the launch of our #BreaktheBarriers research and Period Poverty Conference that we ran in collaboration with Plan.
On the first weekend of September, No More Taboo set up shop at Lush Cribbs Causeway for their Charity Pot weekend.
The Lush Charity Pot is a wonderfully creamy shea-butter hand lotion where all the sales money (excluding VAT) goes towards a chosen charity or non-for-profit. This scheme is designed to help boost grass-roots, small and local organisations, like ourselves, financially so that we can continue to do the work we do such as our Tackling Period Poverty programme.
As we were Lush’s chosen organisation for the weekend of the 1-2 September, one of our volunteers, Iloni, and one of our advisors, Carolyn, went along to wo-man the (suitably Lush-styled aesthetic) stall that Lush had kindly provided for us. We took along a range of our products, stacks of leaflets and information as well as our enthusiasm for talking about all things to do with periods.
Over the weekend, we sold over £200’s worth of stock with Ruby Cups and Honour Your Flow re-usable pads proving most popular with Lush customers. On top of this, Lush sold so many of their Charity Pots that £340.60 was raised for No More Taboo – which was amazing!
However exciting the money side of things were with this event, what I personally took away as being the real highlight of the weekend was the number and nature of conversations we shared with customers.
Mothers and daughters came and chatted to us about how they agreed it was so important to use re-usable products for personal and financial reasons as well as for the planet’s sake. Boyfriends accompanied their other halves as they prodded and probed the range of menstrual cups on display. Older women commented on how it’s such a relief to be able to talk about menstruation in public and with people you’ve only just met. They regaled of a time when periods were even more hush-hush and celebrated with us out mission of there being No More Taboo.
We would like to thank Lush Cribbs Causeway for being such wonderful hosts, encouraging every customer that came through their doors to consider buying the Charity Pot or simply to chat with us. Each member of their staff team was incredibly warm and so keen to find out more about what we do. On behalf of all of us at No More Taboo, thank you.
For more information, take a look at their website: https://www1.uwe.ac.uk/whatson/biggreenweek.aspx
Read more here: https://www.wen.org.uk/environmenstrual-week-of-action/
