Job description

• Volunteer role - marketing and community engagement coordinator, ideally around 8-10 hours a week, 1 year minimum commitment (all reasonable expenses covered)
• Hybrid working - office in St Aidan's Church, Broughty Ferry but remote working fine. Occasional meetings in the office if possible.

Who are we

Tayside Cancer Support offers the opportunity for anyone affected by cancer in Tayside to receive emotional, social and practical support, either on an individual basis or in a group setting.

​The charity has been in existence since July 1994, and is made up of an Executive Committee of voluntary Trustees, one part-time paid employee and approximately twenty volunteer befrienders plus other people who support our events. We work with cancer patients, their families, carers and friends. We do this alongside healthcare professionals and other charities and support groups to provide vital support and information.

We are funded through donations and fundraising events, and we spend the majority of our income on complementary therapies for our clients in the form of counselling or other therapies. We pay subsidised rent in our offices, one part time salary and lastly refreshmentsfor our drop in cafes and to keep our volunteers going!

Anyone can utilise our services who, either has cancer or is supporting someone on their cancer journey, e.g family or friends. They don’t need a specific referral, they can just get in touch. There are no costs associated with our services.

Support we need

We have big ambitions to grow our support to help more clients throughout Tayside and the surrounding area and therefore we need to raise our profileand in turn raise more funds. We are looking for support with marketing and building our community and network on a volunteer basis. We are open to how many hours a week but we just require regular commitment and consistency to ensure that projects get completed and we reach our marketing and fundraising targets. The role will ideally encompass the following but we are very open to any conversations if your skill set is similar to this and you feel passionate about what we do:

• Be passionate and advocate on behalf of Tayside Cancer Support
• Be a self-starter who is highly organised and happy to take the initiative to get stuff done!
• Raise Tayside Cancer Support's local profile and social media presence
• Co-create with the committee and support the deliver of Tayside Cancer Support fundraising plans
• Raise awareness of our drop-in cafes
• Engage with local companies to develop corporate support from the business community
• Build our database of supporters, donors and mailing list and develop a regular newsletter and communication style to engage supporters of Tayside Cancer Support
• Produce regular campaigns including key messages, videos and images for socials and our website
• A nice to have is experience with identifying and securing additional fundraising opportunities

Here’s what some of our volunteers have said:

“TCS has been a great choice for me personally to give something back, and in return give me something I was looking for, across the last few years.”

“TCS is one of the best for helping people with Cancer & their families and friends”

“TCS is a bustling, energetic wee charity wonderfully run by a dedicated team, and I feel cherished and happy to be one of the volunteers. Even in a small way, to be able to give of my time to help someone with cancer and in pain and stress, seemed almost a privilege........and it is........just that. You meet lovely people. You get a wonderful feel-good- factor after a positive phone call or visit. You realise how very lucky you are to be hale and hearty. It really is a satisfying way of using a little of your free time. ”

‘I love working with the TCS team, they are enthusiastic, hard working and passionate about the clients they support and are dedicated to continuing to raise fund to elevate their efforts’

To find out more please contact Lucy-Rose Walker at: [email protected] or contact on Linkedin

Job Types: Part-time, Volunteer
Part-time hours: 8 per week

Benefits:

• Flexitime

Schedule:

• Flexitime

Experience:

• Marketing: 1 year (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Dundee, DD5 2EB

Expected start date: 14/08/2023