Social Media Support (20) (remote, online) for Tanzania Development Trust Crowd2Map project

Contract

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Social media volunteers provide support to the media team and chairperson by producing approved content, or publishing already prepared content, on TDT's website. They also monitor those accounts.

The social media team help us in reaching our sustainable development goals (SDGs) in multiple ways. Posting regularly on social media, creating a larger and constant prescence on our many platforms helps raise awareness to potential volunteers and donors of the issues we are helping resolve in Tanzania. These include girl's access to education, access to clean water and developing income generation.

For girls access to education through our mapping project, we map remote areas of Tanzania to help activists rescue girls who are at risk of FGM. Mapping these remote areas helps them find roads and buildings faster, these girls are then taken to a safe space where they have access to education.

Having more volunteers on our social media team means that we can do more. We can do a variety of different types of posts (video, insta stories, graphics, yearly highlights) and through creative use of social media we can produce content that is more popular so more clicks and views. This can then translate to clicks and donations on our websites which then funds projects which help us towards our SDGs.

The social media volunteers reproduce already published TDT materials and materials distributed to them specifically for TDT social media platforms. Approval for all published content is to go through the chairperson.

The social media team publishes recent promotional and information materials on a weekly basis, including those about current campaigns and upcoming events, and information published on the TDT website. The team also posts monthly and yearly statistics of how many mappers we have and how many km/buildings they have mapped. We also have other initiatives and campaigns aimed at raising awareness of what our mapping and regular volunteers do on a monthly basis, like our 'mapper of the month' and 'photo competition' features.

We post on many different platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, Twitter and Youtube. Because we post on many platforms, that is why we are looking for 20 volunteers. Tasks for these platforms inlcude but are not limited to: writing social media posts, writing picture captions, editing photos on Instagram, posting Instagram stories, sharing our eventbrite events on all platforms, writing longer posts for linkedin & our FB groups and creating graphics on Canva for our yearly and monthly statistics.

They are needed to monitor and assist with TDT's social media for about 10-20 minutes a day.

They communicate any problems to the media engagement officer for actioning.

The task is remote, and may be done from anywhere in the world.

Volunteers are the link between TDT and the wider public and stakeholders, so applicants should enjoy participating in media and public relations, and their values should align with those of the project.

Must have at least 1 year experience in social media - including Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Must be a team player, a great communicator, and, be ready to work harmoniously with a large group of enthusiastic and energetic volunteers.

Must be interested in advancing the values of Crowd2Map by assisting the volunteers (everyone is a volunteer at Crowd2Map), which is directed at ending FGM aiding development via online mapping of remote Tanzania.