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Volunteer opportunity - Fundraising Campaign Manager
Volunteer opportunity
Volunteer
Fundraising Campaign Manager

Description & Link to Mission

Vila Isabel Charitable Society is looking for fundraising campaign managers to help us coordinate our initiatives this year. We are looking for passionate people to work with us starting April/2013 through Jan 2014. These are exceptional opportunities for students, business-minded individuals, mothers with kids in school, and/or anyone else with a heart for the cause.

 

Qualifications

Commitment to the cause and desire to make a difference

Strong teamwork skills

Experience working with remote teams

Proactive, outgoing and welcoming nature

The ability to inspire and influence others with excellent communication skills

 

Benefits & Recognition

Besides a joyful feeling that will come naturally :) Vila Isabel's Directory will provide a letter of recommendation at the successful conclusion of your term and will serve as a reference if appropriate.

 

Deliverables / Duties

To be defined per campaign:

The campaign manager is responsible for the success outcome of the campaign beginning to end.

Campaign Statement of work creation (doc) – scope/resources/milestone/targets

Campaign Status report (doc) – monthly report to the board

Coordination of the volunteers involved (if applicable).

 

Approximate Position Start Date: April/13

Approximate Position End Date: Jan/14

Time commitment: 6-8 hours per month (flexible)

 

For this position, we encourage applications from

·      These are exceptional opportunities for students,

·      Business-minded individuals,

·      Mothers with kids in school, and/or

·      People with physical disabilities

·      English as a second language (ESL)

Contact

Carina Baldwin/ 604.671.0635/ carina@vila-isabel.org


Volunteer opportunity - Graphic Designer
Volunteer opportunity
Volunteer
Graphic Designer

Description & Link to Mission

Vila Isabel Charitable Society is looking for volunteer graphic designer to help maintain its website, newsletter and few branding materials.

Students or experts are welcome!

 

Qualifications

Proven experience with Adobe Photoshop

Creative and sensitive

Strong teamwork skills

Experience working with remote teams

Excellent written and oral communication skills

 

Benefits & Recognition

Besides a joyful feeling that will come naturally :) Vila Isabel's Directory will provide a letter of recommendation at the successful conclusion of your term and will serve as a reference if appropriate.

 

Deliverables / Duties

·      Design specific creative campaigns flyers

·      Maintain our website graphics up to date (homepage banners, info-graphics around the site, etc).

·      Design up to 1 report graphic per month to be attached to our newsletter

·      To be defined per event or milestone

 

Approximate Position Start Date: April/13

Approximate Position End Date: Jan/14

Time commitment: 4-6 hours per month (flexible)

 

For this position, we encourage applications from

·      Students

·      Experience designers

·      People with physical disabilities

·      English as a second language (ESL)

 

Contact

Carina Baldwin/ 604.671.0635/ carina@vila-isabel.org


Volunteer opportunity - Marketing and Social Media Manager
Volunteer opportunity
Volunteer
Marketing and Social Media Manager

Description & Link to Mission

Vila Isabel has the potential to impact a greater number of lives and contribute with other organizations that share the same cause.

We are looking for a Marketing and Social Media Manager to be responsible for bringing traffic to our site, connect with existing donors, new donors, as well as building Vila Isabel Charitable Society brand through delivery of great content!

The position reports to our Board of Directors.

This role is responsible for research, strategy, planning, development, execution, management and analysis of all Vila Isabel Social Platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Mailchimp (newsletter tool) and website.

This is exceptional opportunity for students, business-minded individuals, mothers with kids in school, and/or anyone else with a heart for the cause.

Qualifications

Commitment to the cause and a desire to make a difference

Strong teamwork skills

An advanced and thorough knowledge of the capabilities of all key social media platforms

Creative and Motivated

The ability to inspire and influence others with excellent communication skills

 Benefits & Recognition

Besides a joyful feeling that will come naturally :) Vila Isabel's Directory will provide a letter of recommendation at the successful conclusion of your term and will serve as a reference if appropriate.

Deliverables / Duties

Develop the strategy and plan for all of Vila Isabel social media real estate

Responsible for consistent growth of our online presence: identifying and developing new social initiatives as well as nurturing existing channels and their followers

Establish unique social content programs to compliment vila-isabel.org.

Partner with our graphic designers, campaign managers and event coordinators to keep our content up to date.

Management of the social media content calendar, ensuring execution against plan by the Social Media team (Monthly Newsletter, weekly Facebook, twitter updates and website content update are required)

Extract data from social media platforms and Google for key performance indicators every other month and present it to the board.

Approximate Position Start Date: April/13

Approximate Position End Date: Jan/14

Time commitment: 6-8 hours per month (flexible)

 

For this position, we encourage applications from

·      Students,

·      Business-minded individuals,

·      Mothers with kids in school, and/or

·      People with physical disabilities

·      English as a second language (ESL)

 

Contact

Carina Baldwin/ 604.671.0635/ carina@vila-isabel.org


Karen Costa -
Karen Costa
Volunteer


Born and raised in Brazil, Karen Costa has Villa Isabel as her charity of heart. Despite her busy Real Estate career, Karen always finds time to help & volunteer for us and has been part of our team for the past 2 years.

www.karencosta.com


Izabel Serrano -
Izabel Serrano
Volunteer


Izabel was part of the Vila Isabel's board of directors from 2005-2011. She is one of the founders of our Charitable Society, and has been a key volunteer, extraordinarily organizing Vila Isabel's events, specially our annual Garage Sale.

Izabel is mother of three teen agers and besides working full time she is always involved in good volunteer cause. Our Charitable Society is very proud to have Isabel in our team!


Fabiola Valverde -
Fabiola Valverde
Volunteer



Andrew Ingram - Web developer
Andrew Ingram
Volunteer
Web developer

Web Developer Volunteer


Maria Leticia -
Maria Leticia
Volunteer



Glauco Fadel -
Glauco Fadel
Volunteer


Glauco joined VICS in 2007. First as a volunteer in the fund raising events, then as a board member and now is our volunteer.

"It's a great pleasure to be involved in the VICS projects because it is a connection to our home helping those kids. Even being miles away from home, it is very important for me to work in all the fund raising events that help those families in Betim-MG. We know that we can do more, and we will work hard for that."

Glauco lives in Port Moody-BC, and works as an IT Consultant in the finance area.


Kyuhee - Stella - Graphic Designer (former 2012)
Kyuhee - Stella
Volunteer
Graphic Designer (former 2012)

Stella is the English name of our dear talented designer Kyuhee Park. Born and raised in Korea, she has a major in graphic design and has been helping Vila Isabel while studying english in Vancouver.

'Thank you Kyuhee for dedicating your time and sharing your talent for a good cause! " Carina