Job Summary
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 16th Sep 2020
The Working Women’s Centre SA Inc is a not-for-profit organisation that provides an industrial service to vulnerable working women and others. The Centre provides support, advice, information and representation to women who face issues in their employment in both federal and state jurisdictions. The Centre is also concerned with the structural inequalities for women in the workplace, and conducts outreach, community education, campaigning for the equal participation of women in the workforce and community. For further information about the WWC and its services, visit https://wwcsa.org.au/
Young women have been hit hard by COVID, which has worsened their finances, their employment prospects, their safety, their mental health, their pay rates, and their long-term stability. The Working Women’s Centre SA is running a project to raise the voices of young women in the COVID recovery process and to improve young women’s access to steady and fair employment. This is a huge task, and we are looking for volunteers to help make this happen.
We are looking for up to three committed volunteers for the Young Women’s COVID-19 Advocacy Program. Volunteers must be able to commit to volunteering roughly one day per week at the Working Women’s Centre SA in the Adelaide CBD from October 2020 – July 2021. This will usually be on a regular weekday between 10am-4pm, but there may be events and activities that are after-hours.
In this volunteer role, you will be able to see your work make a difference in improving economic justice for young women. Young women are being left behind in the COVID-recovery process, and we need a team of enthusiastic volunteers to make this project a success. You will get to work within a supportive team of other young feminists.
Through training, mentoring, and learning-by-doing, you will gain skills to create change, including advocacy skills, facilitation skills, research skills and experience with media engagement and social media.
Volunteers within the advocacy program will have the following responsibilities:
Day to day, this might look like:
We are looking for young feminists* (under 30 years of age) who are passionate about gender equality and who want to fight to make the world a better place.
*We encourage applications from all cis and trans women, as well as non-binary people who are comfortable working on a project that focuses on the experiences of young women.
We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply.
We know that not everyone has had to the chance to gain extensive experience in advocacy. If you are interested in this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not fulfil all the desired attributes. Volunteers will be required to get a working with vulnerable people check if successful.
The first round of applications closes 5pm Monday 28th September 2020.
Interviews and a one-day training will be conducted in early October.
If you have any questions about the role, please contact Maddie at [email protected] using the subject line: Volunteer - Young Women's COVID-19 Advocacy Program enquiry via EthicalJobs.
A position description is attached.