Become an office volunteer

Position Title:  Marketing Community and Talent Volunteer 

Position Type: Part Time: 1-2 days per week, flexible working  

Reports to: Marketing Manager  

  

About Cure Cancer:  
Cure Cancer are dedicated to backing brave thinking and kick-starting new ideas in cancer research. By funding the top 1% of bright new projects led by the most brilliant minds in science, we save millions of lives.   

Our community of fundraisers, corporate partners, researchers and institutions work tirelessly to take on every cancer and find the most impactful solutions, working together to bring them to life in record time.   

With this shared purpose and bold ambition, we dare to ask ourselves the one question that can change everything: What if we cure cancer?   

We know we can.  

 

The Role:  

This part-time, flexible role is ideal for a student or flexible worker and someone looking to make an everyday impact on the future of cancer research.   

The Marketing Community and Talent Volunteer’s day to day tasks will focus on research and outreach of community groups, influencers and ambassadors that Cure Cancer can align with to amplify their key campaigns (like BarbeCURE, Appeals and Fitness campaigns) in the media and across social media and networks.  

  

Key Responsibilities:  

To support the Marketing team to research and recruit talent and communities to align with, participate in and amplify their campaigns:   

Influencers and ambassadors: 

• Desk research influencers and ambassadors who align with Cure Cancer’s cause 

• Help develop talent proposals ( word powerpoint or canva) 

• Create some social media content for ambassadors and influencers 

• Outreach to ambassadors and influencers via email and DMs 

 Community groups: 

• Desk research community groups who are likely to participate in Cure Cancer fundraising campaigns. 

• Create social media content and email content to send to community groups to acquire them and engage them throughout a fundraising campaign.  

   

Skills & Experience:  

Essential   

• Interest in marketing/ publicity / social media  

• Strong verbal and written communication skills  

• Ability to work well under limited supervision  

• A proven eye for detail  

• Some experience in creating social media content and social media platforms (personal or external/work related) 

• Ability to follow a clear brief of instruction  

• Some experience with video editing programmes e.g. adobe creative suite  

  

Desired, but not essential:   

• Studying for Publicity, Comms, Media or Marketing or qualification  

• Previous use of a website content management system  

• Proficient in Canva    

• Proficient in MS Office  

 

Hours   

• 1-2 days a week, flexible hours available.  

As a telemarketing volunteer, you’ll assist us with marketing and fundraising campaigns, incite interest in our cause, as well as creating direct email/mail appeals and telemarketing campaigns to help us reach out to prospective donors.

Requirements
As a charity, we rely on the kindness of donors to keep supporting life saving cancer research. Outreach is important to us, and that’s why we’d prefer if you have:

• Excellent communication skills, telephone etiquette, patience & persuasion, preferably with a marketing background
• Be comfortable speaking on the phone with several people each day to discuss charity services and other work-related
• Have previous fundraising experience

Responsibilities

• Contribute your skills to help us in raising funds to assist the everyday work of Cure Cancer.
• Place phone calls to donors from our directory and approach new corporates

Commitment Requested

• We request a minimum commitment of 3 hours on a weekday between 10.00 am – 2.00pm Monday-Wednesday for at least 1 month.
• Your rostering of hours and days will be negotiated with you to meet your availabilities as a volunteer and the needs of the service.
• We are committed to upholding the Volunteering Australia’s National Standards for Involving Volunteers. That’s why the engagement of ongoing volunteers is generally restricted to a maximum of 16 hours per week.

Volunteers are a growing part of our team, both in size and in importance, and we look to them for help with:

• Processing and responding to correspondence
• Typing and sending acknowledgement letters
• Donation processing and reconciliation
• Answering incoming phone calls and emails
• Updating the database and maintaining records

In Memory: For those who have recently lost a loved one, Cure Cancer helps support their legacy with an In Memory page. This includes sending the family a Cure Cancer lapel pin and donation forms for the funeral. We need help putting the lapel pins together and simply involved some ribbon and a safety pin to form the symbol of hope.

Fitness packs: We have over 1000 runners competing in marathons and fundraising for Cure Cancer. To express our gratitude, Cure Cancer provides a fitness pack with a singlet top, hat and other bits to keep up the motivation. We need help calling the runners, finding out what size their singlet top is, and sending the pack to them.