Voluntary Action South West Surrey

We are looking for a motivated volunteer, passionate about our natural environment, to contribute towards raising the profile of GEF’s work with the aim of growing our membership (200 currently), recruiting volunteers and making the most of our successes, especially our current projects.

Ideally, the candidate will possess the following skills and experience:

• Experience working in the field of communications and marketing
• Experience of updating and managing webpages
• Strong understanding of social media platforms and management tools (e.g. Hootsuite); and of email marketing tools (e.g. MailChimp)
• Good verbal communication skills with the ability to build positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Good copywriting and editorial skills
• Competence with digital graphic design programmes such as Photoshop, InDesign or similar

As the post is voluntary the specific responsibilities within the role will be negotiable, but would ideally include:

• Managing social media accounts, posting up-to-date information on our activities to promote events and membership
• Attending quarterly meetings of the GEF executive committee
• Lead on the presentation of all external communications including press releases, leaflets, events promotion so as to make GEF better known locally.
• Identifying and pursuing new opportunities to advertise our activities through local publications, radio, partners or events
• Work alongside existing volunteers to maintain the GEF website and help with producing a quarterly newsletter, which is read by about 1,000 in the area.

The minimum time commitment we are looking for would be 2-3 hours per week. Specifics of the role will be negotiable, dependent on the applications received. All expenses will be covered and a modest budget will be available for worthwhile marketing and communication endeavours, subject to executive committee approval.

Hon. Treasurer – Guildford Environment Forum

Salary: Voluntary (expenses paid)

Hours: approx. 2 hours per week

Guildford Environment Forum are a Surrey based charity with a 30 year long history. We work to make Guildford (and the world beyond) a more sustainable place by educating, informing, cutting energy use, reducing ecological footprints, helping wildlife and tackling climate change. We work on local government Climate Change committees, and run various hands-on projects that generate action on the environment within our local community. To find out more about our work to date, please visit http://www.guildfordenvironment.org.uk/.

We are looking for a motivated volunteer, passionate about our natural environment, to contribute towards raising the profile of GEF’s work with the aim of keeping the accounting records of the charity.  

Ideally, the candidate will possess the following skills and experience:

• Competence in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and standard software accounts (quite simple to operate – Moneydance instruction available).
• Database skills as we use the membermojo software to manage memberships. The database is managed by a membership officer.
• Ability to operate on line banking – Lloyds Bank.

As the post is voluntary the specific responsibilities within the role will be negotiable, but would ideally include:

• Recording an average of 20 transactions a month on Moneydance accounting software.
• Reconciling Moneydance monthly to bank statements (available online).
• Preparing quarterly accounts for Exec meetings, which summarise the finances since the last accounts and compare actual with budget and help inform the Chair and the Exec.
• Reconciling subscription income (jointly with Membership Officer) of all income due from members, both new and existing.
• Making annual gift-aid claims and collecting up to £1kpa from HMRC.
• Paying bills or grants as they arise – about one a week – mainly online.
• Attending quarterly meetings of the Exec Committee (optional).
• Monitoring Restricted Funds (monies received for specific purposes)- currently the Rosamund garden, Swift funds and the Community Hub project (optional).

The ideal time commitment we are looking for would be 2 hours per week at whatever time suits the applicant. Specifics of the role will be negotiable, dependent on the applications received. All expenses will be covered.

If you are interested and able to volunteer for GEF in the above capacity then please do get in touch with Adrian Thompson by clicking on the Fill in an Application button an he will get back to you for a chat.