Aldershot Military Museum

Are you interested in using your unique skills, knowledge, and experience to support changing lives through culture?

As a social media and marketing volunteer you will have the opportunity to support our vital work of changing lives through culture. This will be a great opportunity to use your skillset to develop our social media presence, bringing to life exciting content that puts the museum on the map.

What to expect:

Our volunteer roles are designed to be tailored to you, your interests, and your skills. Some of the things you could be up to include:

• Supporting our teams to deliver social media content and improve our marketing.
• Assist with our events programme, developing our audience and helping with the delivery of events and workshops.
• Produce video, photos, and written content to promote the museum and our events.
• Develop and implement a poster/leaflet distribution plan in the Rushmoor area. 
• Work with the museum team to maintain a database of local organisations and schools to keep them up to date with our events programme.
• Acquire a basic knowledge of venue operations to assist reception if required.
• Remote volunteering may be possible for this role.

Skills and Experience:

To be comfortable in this role we think you should have:

• An eagerness to share your knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Experience using social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.
• Basic graphic design skills.
• Ability to produce videos and photographs to a high standard.
• Ability to comply with HCT's social media policy.
• An interest in Aldershot's history.

As a result of volunteering you will get:

• Experience marketing for a leading cultural charity.
• A variety of volunteer benefits including free access to all HCT venues.

Expectations:

We expect professionalism from all who are representatives of Hampshire Cultural Trust. Whilst conducting your role or any activity that may be considered to represent the Trust, you are expected to uphold our values and standards, and be aligned with our policies and expectations of conduct.

Values:

Our values are very important to us, and we expect all volunteers, staff, and everyone we work with to abide by these when representing HCT and working with us:

We have the courage to aim high and think differently

We are imaginative, resourceful and flexible in what we do and how we do it

We aspire to the highest standards in everything we do

We are all responsible for our success, as individuals and together

We inspire our people to collaborate, share knowledge and celebrate our achievements

We are considerate, respectful, and understand each other’s similarities and differences

We are committed to promoting equity, inclusion and diversity and a culture that actively values difference.  We recognise that people from different backgrounds and experiences can enhance the way we perform and work. We aim to be inclusive, valuing, and respectful of diversity, developing the ability to recruit and retain a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve and seeks to engage.