Volunteer Programme - London, United Kingdom - Skaped

Description

Skaped is excited to announce the launch of our new Volunteer Programme Skaped is an East-London youth-led Artivist charity encouraging young people to engage with community building and social change through the creative arts.

We run relatable creative workshops, educational programming and art projects for folk 11-30 years old.

Our youth-led team is actively trying to create an organisation that prioritises care and acceptance within our activism (and our general workspace).

Skaped is a small and relatively new organisation so we often work collaboratively across our departments.

We're looking for people who have a strong passion for social justice, education, and/or creative arts, and who are willing to come to learn, grow, and try new things with our team.

We're unconventional and constantly trying to work differently from traditional social change groups to meet our team's needs; this also means we're paving our own path, so patience, initiative, good communication skills, and an innovative spirit is a necessities

Vision:

Our vision is an empathetic world in which young people use artistic expression to gain the skills and confidence needed to create and lead social change.

Mission:

Our mission is to equip young people with the tools needed to create social change by using the creative arts to reflect on their strengths and the collective power of the community.

Skaped's values, creativity, inclusivity, intersectionality, community empowerment, empathy, and social justice, are at the heart of everything we do.

As an organisation, we lead through care and acceptance; we believe that through intentionally creating empathetic environments, radical relationships are built that lead to a more just world.

Skaped is launching its 'Volunteer Programme' starting April 17th, 2023 This programme is intended for young people interested in becoming a part of the Skaped team as volunteers and lasts for 6 months.

Throughout this period, you will learn various transferable skills about running a creative social justice project while also having the chance to take part in paid work experience.

We're looking for passionate and committed volunteers to join our Skaped family, working up to 8 hours a week.

These 8 hours will primarily be remote work, apart from weekly in-person meetings on Monday evenings held in our East London office.

The volunteer programme is split into 2 parts:


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PART 1:

Inspire Period_

• For the first 3 months of the programme, volunteers will engage in a structured learning programme enabling you to learn the ins and outs of working at Skaped. During this time, you will begin to learn the foundational tools to running an artivist charity, such as proposal writing, working with social media, creative workshop writing and facilitating, project management, and more

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2.


PART II:
Create Period_

• The final months are a paid work experience with one of the Skaped teams. Over this period, you will be paid for 56 hours (London living wages).

What you can gain:

• Training and development we are looking for people to grow with Skaped over time with the possibility of progressing to paid opportunities.
• Experience creating educational artivist content for young people.
• Skaped sponsored training and certifications from outside organisations.

Benefits:

• Work from home
• Flexible working hours
• Work in a tightknit team
• Assistance with personal and professional development there's always someone to lend a listening ear.

Accessibility:

• Application processes such as these can be inaccessible, and as an organisation we recognise this, and urge you to reach out to let us know if there are adjustments we can make to further support in this recruitment process. We're more than happy to help or alter this process in any way we can
• Written, video or audio recording responses to these questions will all be accepted.
• All transport/accessibility requirements will be compensated for within reason.

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We aim to be prominent as a diverse and inclusive organisation. Applications are strongly encouraged from people of all background, faiths, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, economic circumstances, marginalised communities and backgrounds, as well as those from disabled communities. We offer various flexible working hours.)


Job Types:
Part-time, Volunteer

Part-time hours: 8 per week


Salary:
Up to £11.95 per hour


Benefits:

• Flexitime
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Flexitime

Work Location:
Hybrid remote in London

Application deadline: 17/03/2023

Expected start date: 17/04/2023