Open positions: Content team

Join the Events team as a Website Editor, Evaluation Specialist, Communication and Activities Specialist, Motivational Leader, Organizational Leader, Visual Design Specialist, Social Media Editor, or Support Member

Application deadline: January 16th!

Website Editor

Your responsibilities

  • Manage our website
  • Handling the various pages of our website including members list, events and contact information
  • Ensure information on website is accurate and up to date
  • Work with evaluation specialist to develop KPIs to measure website traffic
  • Work with Networking team for outreach
  • Work with Events team to advertise YGT events
  • Assist Content team in establishing and publishing a blog for our research articles (long-term)

Your profile

  • You have the capacity to commit between 3 and 10 hours per week to YGT for the next six months on a voluntary basis.
  • You ideally have some experience in building, managing and designing websites, specifically using WordPress
    • Alignment with YGT’s values and mission of youth empowerment

Evaluation Specialist

Your responsibilities

  • Develop new strategies to achieve Content team objectives across its various platforms
  • Develop and evaluate KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to evaluate various aspects of the team’s work:
    • Performance of posts
    • Website traffic
    • Team workflow and processes
  • Create action plans to implement new strategies in Content Team

Your profile

  • You have the capacity to commit between 3 and 10 hours per week to YGT for the next six months on a voluntary basis
  • You ideally have some experience in creating action plans and evaluating strategies
  • You are good at organising and planning ahead
  • You have an ability to research creatively and with detail
  • Alignment with YGT’s values and mission of youth empowerment

Communication and Activities Specialist

Your responsibilities

  • Develop new strategies to achieve Content team objectives across its various platforms
  • Develop and evaluate KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to evaluate various aspects of the team’s work:
    • Performance of posts
    • Website traffic
    • Team workflow and processes
  • Create action plans to implement new strategies in Content Team

Your profile

  • You have the capacity to commit between 3 and 10 hours per week to YGT for the next six months on a voluntary basis
  • You ideally have some experience in creating action plans and evaluating strategies
  • You are good at organising and planning ahead
  • You have an ability to research creatively and with detail
  • Alignment with YGT’s values and mission of youth empowerment

Motivational Leader

Your responsibilities

  • Motivate team members and ensure a healthy work environment and team spirit
  • Coordinate and delegate tasks within the team
  • To be the person of confidence team members can turn to if they face difficulties or have personal issues with the team’s work, tasks and co-members
  • Touch base with External Team Leader to ensure inter-team coordination with the Content Team
  • Attend and lead team meetings 

Your profile

  • You have the capacity to commit up to 10 hours per week to YGT for the next six months on a voluntary basis
  • You feel comfortable and ideally have some experience with taking on responsibility and leading a team
  • You are naturally organised and like coordinating projects
  • You are an empathetic team player and like working with many different people
  • Alignment with YGT’s values and mission of youth empowerment

Organizational Leader

Your responsibilities

  • Communication of the team’s work with other teams and coordination of cross-team tasks
  • Representation of the team in overarching YGT meetings
  • Ensuring the team stays informed about YGT matters and in line with the organisation’s long term goals
  • Touch bases with Internal Team Leader to ensure team issues are raised to YGT’s cross-team Coordination 
  • Attend team meetings as well as meetings with the organisation’s strategic board

Your profile

  • You have the capacity to commit up to 10 hours per week to YGT for the next six months on a voluntary basis
  • You feel comfortable and ideally have some experience with taking on responsibility , co-leading a team and being a spokesperson 
  • You are naturally organised and like coordinating projects and people
  • You like being in meetings and have a natural ability for talking and presenting
  • You are able to ensure balance by ensuring team objectives are met, while not compromising on member’s welfare/team’s functions
  • Alignment with YGT’s values and mission of youth empowerment

Visual Design Spcialist

Your responsibilities

  • Develop and strengthen YGT’s “brand appearance”. Specifically this entails developing the organisation’s design guidelines for all platforms (e.g. layout, colours, fonts, etc)
  • Ensure YGT’s design guidelines are correctly used and that the organisation has a coherent “look”
  • Help out other YGT members in questions of design and creativity
  • Actively update guidelines as YGT evolves on an ongoing basis

Your profile

  • You have the capacity to commit 3 to 10 hours per week to YGT for the next six months on a voluntary basis
  • You are a naturally creative person and have a sense for aesthetics
  • You ideally have experience with various design softwares (e.g. Adobe Suite, Canva, etc)
  • You are flexible and can adapt the design philosophy as YGT evolves and grows
  • You are a communicator who can help explain design technicalities to less experienced members
  • Alignment with YGT’s values and mission of youth empowerment
 
 
 
 

Social Media Editor

Your responsibilities

  • Revise social media posts and other publications done by other team members
  • Ensure the created content is interesting, coherent and of high quality
  • Take on a leading role in initiating a YGT blog
  • Give support to other members in regards to content creation

Your profile

  • You have the capacity to commit 3 to 10 hours per week to YGT for the next six months on a voluntary basis
  • You are a naturally creative person with an eye for detail
  • You are skilled and experienced with research activities and writing
  • Very good knowledge of english, other languages also highly welcome
  • You ideally have experience with content creation and social media trends
  • Alignment with YGT’s values and mission of youth empowerment

Support Member

Your responsibilities

  • Help out the team in it’s various tasks:
    • Create posts for social media
    • Do research for posts, blog posts, etc
    • Support the team during brainstorming sessions

Your profile

  • You have the capacity to commit 3 hours per week to YGT for the next six months on a voluntary basis
  • You like being creative and thinking out of the box
  • You enjoy working in a team and helping out where need be
  • Alignment with YGT’s values and mission of youth empowerment