Website Volunteers Wanted

BGCI are seeking website support on a voluntary basis, initially for around four hours per week. You can be located anywhere in the world.

What is Involved?

Join the BGCI team as a web volunteer

The work includes:

updating our website with suitable, useful links and advertisements;
proofreading and making corrections;
restructuring content to make it more useful for users.

Depending on how you get on, you could also be asked to produce longer content and news stories for the site, so if you would be interested in that let us know.

Required Skills

For this role is it essential to be

a good, accurate proofreader
creative but able to stay within our guidelines and policies on styles and content
able to work on own initiative
honest and reliable
able to select appropriate content
aware of plants/conservation/science or able to learn quickly

It is also desirable if you can offer any of the following:

image manipulation skills
a basic sense of HTML
understanding of how to write precis and writing for the web
knowledge of the internet, especially search
knowledge of content management systems

If you do not have these skills, it will be essential that you can learn them quickly with our help.

Free Training & Support

If you are an accurate worker and can learn fast, we will offer training in web writing and imaging skills. Let us know what communication tools you can use.

Apply Now

If you would like to be considered for this role, please email us the following:

a brief CV (resume)
your level of experience with internet work
any web links you have relating to your work. In particular, if you have any experience of writing for the web please let us know and show examples.
if you haven't worked on the internet before, please demonstrate your proofreading skills
what time commitment you can make

Also:

Please let us know what your internet access speed is, what computer you would use and what security it has in place, and whether you can use Skype, chat and/or other tools to communicate with us.
We would also like to have a reference from someone you have worked with.

Email us your application

What Next?

We will review applications on an ongoing basis.

We will then run an informal interview, preferably using Skype, and invite you to take a simple skills test on our site (on a hidden page).

We will also discuss what time commitments you can offer.

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