Publicity Volunteer

What you’d be doing

You’d be supporting our passionate Comms Team with admin tasks around sharing appeals and publicity for missing people. Your tasks would include:

• Researching which appeals are appropriate for sharing widely by reading case notes from our services team
• Approaching family members of missing people and/or police to share our publicity offers, and to gain permission for our publicity partners to share appeals E.g The Big Issue Magazine, JCDecaux billboards
• Creating occasional social media appeals to help mark a missing person’s birthday and/or missing anniversary
• Recruiting and updating poster partners for our Safeguarding Briefing Network, to enable us to share appeals with key service providers

‘I am pleased to say that *Ben has been found safe and well in Brighton. This was a result of a member of the public seeing one of your posters and informing us. As always thank you so much for your help.’

– Police Officer

‘I would be very glad of this publicity. I so appreciate all you are doing – it gives me a bit of fresh hope.’

– Family member

Qualities/Experience/Skills needed

This role will suit someone who is detail orientated and enjoys completing admin tasks. Skills needed include:

• Interest and passion for the work that Missing People does.
• Strong confidence and ease using technology including email, excel, video calls and social media
• Good organisation and timekeeping skills
• Ability to handle data sensitively and confidentially.
• A DBS check will be required for this role.

What this role can offer you

• The opportunity to utilise existing skills and learn new ones
• A rewarding chance to learn more about the issue of missing, gain insight into the appeal process and be a part of providing a lifeline for more missing people and their loved ones
• Experience of a national charity comms environment
• Valuable experience and new skills to add to a CV
• Full training and ongoing support, provided by a welcoming, friendly team.

Location and availability

This role will be worked from home. As such access to a computer and internet connection will be required.

We are asking for a regular commitment of 0.5 – 1 day a week on a Monday – Thursday, during 9am-5pm hours.

Due to the levels of staff time and cost required to induct new publicity volunteers, we ask for a commitment of 6+ months following a trial shift.

Next Steps

If you’d like to chat anything through before applying, please contact volunteering@missingpeople.org.uk or give us a call on 0208 392 4590.

Apply Now

If you’re interested in this role, please click Apply Now to fill in a short interest form.