CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES

Current Opportunities.

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We are always looking for the right people to join our team in a voluntary capacity. We are looking for people who are self-motivated, passionate and great at team work. We currently have three working self-managed volunteer groups our communications team, our Tackling Period Poverty team and our Business team. We meet as a team once a month and have strategy days every 3 months. We also have a Directors group and a team of advisors who support us.

Our recruitment is in intakes, we do a new intake approximately every quarter where we have an afternoon of induction and interviews. However, feel free to enquire at any time about either the roles we are actively seeking listed below or other skills or expertise that you would like to bring to No More Taboo.

Our head office is in Bristol but we work across the South West including Devon, we do on occasion have roles which can be done remotely- please do enquire to see if this role could be completed from a different location.

Our next intake dates in Bristol are:

Thursday 15th November 2018
Thursday 17th January 2019

Deadlines: Please ensure you send in your application at least 5 days before the intake date and are able to start as soon as possible after this.

Actively Seeking ASAP:

• Tackling Period Poverty Facilitator (6 hours per week - long term) [Full Job Description]

We are looking for confident, engaging, passionate people to help to not only deliver training for individuals living in poverty but also to staff members from those organisations that support them. Over the next 6 months, we are working towards developing our long-term training programme for volunteers to become a certified Tackling Period Poverty Lead. Which will include getting first-hand experience working with vulnerable people and being observed leading your own workshops or one-to-one support.

• Tackling Period Poverty Programme Support (6 hours per week - flexible) [Full Job Description]

The development of this programme has taken commitment and relationship building over the past 2.5 years, we are now looking for passionate ‘super organisers’ who can work behind the scenes to create an amazing experience for those attending our workshops, training or being offered the opportunity to become a period-friendly organisation. We are wanting to administer a strong training programme for our Tackling Period Poverty facilitators and alongside this need to build a strong support team to help deliver an exceptional service.

• Volunteer Book-keeper (10 hours per month - flexible) [Full Job Description]

We are looking for someone with some time to give to help process our accounts, all of the day to day activity through our banking, Paypal and expenses. Ideally, we would like someone to process this on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly system, to reduce back-logs and help us keep up-to-date with our current financial status.

We’re looking for someone who is systematic, efficient and organised. Ideally with some experience but this is not completely necessary as training can be provided.

• Fundraising Volunteers (4-6 hours per week) [Full Job Description]

Our fundraising team is headed by our Director of Fundraising and development, who has put together a fundraising strategy. Your role will be to help put this strategy into action. We are looking for support from a person keen to gain experience in the fundraising world, preferably who has some experience of grant bodies and what is available and how to approach donors but who also can be creative in starting fundraising campaigns.

• Student Representatives (4-6 hours per week) [Full Job Description]

Your role will be to liaise with the university including different societies and departments for example the sustainability department and get more sustainable sanitary products on their radar and help us raise funds to help tackle period poverty. There are a number of different ways this can be done: fundraising events, period parties, educational talks and workshops, getting products stocked in university shops and hosting stalls at university events/markets.

On the look out for:

Please do get in touch if you have skills in these areas particularly at advisor level:

• Programme design and development

• Sales

• Marketing

• Financial Planning

• Video and photography

• Legal compliance for social enterprises

• Product Promotion Events

• Council Contracting

• Online shop management

• Advisor Role-(4-6 hours per month-flexible) [Full Job Description]

This job description will show you what we expect of an advisor and how we hope to engage with you. Curently, we are looking for an advisor with sales/online retail knowledge to come on board, alongside someone with a financial planning background. We are also currently developing our offer around the Tackling Period Poverty programme and are looking for people with experience of programme design and networks within vulnerable people/poverty third sector organisations e.g foodbanks, sheltered accomodation and drug support groups.

Love what we do? Want to help us promote what we do?

We regularly are looking for people who love reusables and want to help spread the word if you would like to become a No More Taboo advocate: support us with running stalls/events, host your own events or help us do some fundraising and receive an “Advocate-Getting Started” pack- get in touch at info@nomoretaboo.org.