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Housing Rights is seeking an enthusiastic volunteer with a keen interest in Graphic Design to make a big difference to our ability to promote our services, events and fundraising activities. Your contribution will help us to convey our impact in an eye-catching and professional way.
This is a perfect opportunity for people who want to help our work, but would like the flexibility to volunteer in our office or remotely. It may also be ideal for those who are not always available during standard working hours.
Location
Our main office is located in Belfast (The Skainos Centre, 239 Newtownards Road, Belfast BT4 1AF)
Time commitment
Up to one day per week (occasionally more for substantive tasks e.g. Impact report)
Tasks
- Build a library of visuals and marketing materials for our various advice projects (with their own brands)
- Create images / graphics for use across social media channels
- Design flyers, posters, display materials
- Develop visuals and marketing materials for fundraising campaigns
- Create images / graphics for use across social media channels
- Design flyers, posters, display materials
- Design corporate information such as brochure design for impact reports, annual reports etc, event branding, visual identity and marketing materials
Skills we are looking for from you:
- Experience using Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator
- Work experience in graphic design
- A good eye for design
- Ability to create effective typography
You should be:
- Creative
- A good communicator to help convey a client’s story, brands and ideas
- Brand and typography aware
- Reliable
- Have an interest in the work of Housing Rights
Additional Information
You will receive:
- A full organisational induction from the Peer & Volunteer Development Coordinator
- Reimbursement of out of pocket volunteer expenses within Housing Rights expenses guidelines
- Relevant task specific briefings from a designated day-today supervisor
- 1:1 supervision meetings to aid regular and positive communication between your day-to-day supervisor and the Peer & Volunteer Development Coordinator with the opportunity to discuss progress, training needs and any concerns
To apply, please complete the volunteer application and monitoring forms (found in the files section below) and email to sonya@housingrights.org.uk
Closing Date
5:00pm
Contact Details
Sonya Nelson
Peer & Volunteer Development Coordinator
239 Newtownards Road
Belfast
BT4 1AF
United Kingdom
More Information
Organisational Background
Housing Rights is the leading provider of independent specialist housing advice services in Northern Ireland. We believe everyone has the right to a decent, safe and affordable home and have been working for over 50 years to help achieve this on behalf of people who are homeless or living in poor housing in Northern Ireland. All our services are delivered throughout Northern Ireland and focus on the key areas of preventing homelessness; accessing accommodation; tackling affordability and poor housing conditions.
Our services currently include:
- Providing a housing advice line.
- Undertaking advocacy and legal representation on behalf of people with housing problems.
- An in situ court representation service for people facing possession as a consequence of debt.
- Providing online advice through the website www.housingadviceNI.org as well as email advice.
- Providing a good practice and compliance helpline for private landlords operating in Northern Ireland.
- Providing a specialist housing advice service within the prisons in NI.
- Providing intensive short term support to the most vulnerable prisoners on release to ensure they are connected with appropriate support services within the community.
- Supporting (in partnership with Citizens Advice and AdviceNI) generalist advice agencies to deliver high quality housing in their local communities.
- Delivering a skills and knowledge based training programme.
- Producing information resource materials on housing law and practice.
- Providing client based comment to influence the development of relevant public policy and legislation.