Business Development Volunteer

Business Development Volunteer

Short term project
J99366
At a glance

Skills

  • Business development / Sales

Where

London, SW6 2GG
Remote opportunity

Time

Either in or out of office hours Estimate of time needed:
15-90 hours
You may be required to attend the occasional online team meeting during office hours

Deadline

11 Oct 2024

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Welcome to Reach Volunteering. We are a community and registered charity that connects people, skills and good causes.

To apply for this role, and any other on our platform, you need to be based in the UK, have at least three years of experience using the skills you wish to volunteer in a professional capacity or have lived experience (for trustee roles). Read more about our criteria.

Your business development expertise will help us enable adults in the United Kingdom to navigate their careers successfully, boost their employability and gain practical experience. 

What will you be doing?

We support individuals age 25+ to navigate their careers, boost their employability and gain practical experience when they need it (experiential learning). We do this through our content, events, and soon to be launched workshops. We are urgently looking for experienced business developers to work with us as we market our events and grow our stakeholder and customer networks. Your contribution will go a long way to helping us succeed with our mission to assist thousands of people achieve their full potential at all stages of their career. 

We would like the volunteer to: 

  • Represent our organisation as a volunteer business development professional
  • Grow 1st degree connections on LinkedIn (target audience is career changers, struggling job seekers, mature students)
  • Assist us to sell tickets to our events via LinkedIn and 1st degree LinkedIn connections
  • Assist us to sell tickets to our events via other forms of direct marketing
  • Suggest and execute other forms of marketing and selling that result in event ticket sales

Benefits of volunteering with us: 

  • Continuous professional development certificate for completed outcomes 
  • Written reference to boost your CV
  • We support you to gain more experience and valuable skills

You will be working with our strategic director who will share our marketing and sales strategy, and support you to achieve success in your role. 

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a volunteer who has experience:

  • Using LinkedIn to grow connections
  • Using LinkedIn to market and sell offerings 
  • Using direct marketing to market and sell offerings

The volunteer should also have/be: 

  • Accuracy and attention to detail
  • Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Ability to quickly understand the needs of our team / organisation / users
  • Can ask key questions to enable us to clarify requirements
  • Understands the resource constraints of a small not-for-profit and is able to work with these
  • Open to feedback
  • Collaborative
  • Willing and able to work within virtual teams and contribute to team goals

What difference will you make?

Your input will help us create genuine career success for many people in the United Kingdom regardless of their background. 

Before you apply

Please provide a cover letter explaining why you would like to volunteer with us. Feel free to include ways this opportunity will help your own career goals. Interviews will be an informal online chat with our Director. 

Causes
  • Education
  • Training / employment support
  • Organisation type: 
    Social enterprise

    The Experiential Learning and Employability Hub's core beneficiaries are lifelong learners (aged 18+) in the United Kingdom who want to achieve success at all stages of their career (early, mid-...