Marketing and Communications Volunteer (including Social Media)

• Livingston Fencing Club

• VO101622

Livingston Fencing Club is a small community club. We have two classes one for primary school and the other for secondary school children both running at James Young High School.

There are two volunteer coaches and a Welfare Officer plus a committee member who also runs their own fencing club.

To support the club we are looking for a volunteer with Marketing and Communications experience, including knowledge and experience in social media channels.

The club is about to add an adult recreational class and we would welcome some support to help promote this class in the coming months. We would also welcome support with on-going promotions and features that highlight events within the sport such as World Fencing Day.

Once the adult class is running we expect support to be minimal and ad hoc.

Examples of how the club might need support include:

Promoting the adult class and the secondary school class - this is our key priority area in the coming months
Developing flyers to print (which we can distribute to shops/community notice boards)
Creating a Tik Tok account?
Maintaining a Facebook, Instagram and X (for active schools) presence
Creating and maintain a website page (we don't have one yet and would need funds but could be a future long term project and we would support with providing content)
Create a picture library for future use
Finding organisations and events that the club could run taster sessions for to promote classes

Once the adult class is promoted the role is entirely flexible and would take up a few hours a month we expect. The classes don't run during school holidays either so we expect won't be a large time commitment in the future.

We envisage the volunteer will not incur any expenses in this role however the club can reimburse outgoings if agreed in advance and they are affordable to the club.

Experience required

We are looking for someone with experience particularly in marketing and the use of social media. A communications background would also be advantageous.

We are looking to increase membership in our secondary school class and promote the new adult recreation class. So ideally we would be looking for someone with knowledge of membership growth and attracting people to a new sport or activity.

As our club is based in Livingston knowledge of Facebook pages that are local for example West Lothian News and local community pages would be extremely helpful.

Ideally we need someone who can also help build a photo library - it's hard to coach youngsters and to take photos so if we can build some good images it would support the club going forward.

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