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Until Friday 18 January 2013 Punches Barn, Waterperry Road, Holton, Oxfordshire OX33 1PP From Monday 21 January 2013 Greenfords, London Road, Wheatley, Oxfordshire, OX33 1JH January 2013
Telephone 01865 874780
[email protected] www.cpreoxon.org.uk working locally and nationally to protect and enhance a beautiful, thriving countryside for everyone to value and enjoy
Media monitoring volunteer Are you interested in local news? Do you love the countryside? As our media monitoring volunteer, you’ll be a news junkie who loves to keep an eye on the latest stories about the environment, transport, planning, development... and anything that might have an impact on the countryside. Duties Our media monitoring volunteer will look through the local and regional media keeping an eye on the stories that are making the news. From flood protection schemes in Banbury to planning homes in West Oxfordshire, from solar panels in Henley and wind turbines near Thame, you’ll scan the online media and compile a list of links to the latest local news stories. This list is circulated by email to CPRE staff and volunteers to help them keep abreast with the latest debates on subjects that affect our work. We use the list of links to select stories for our social media feeds. Your media monitoring activity may take less than an hour a day, or perhaps an hour or two every other day. This is a very flexible role which you can do from home. Skills and experience You will need to be computer literate with access to a computer and the internet. You’ll be a news junkie and be able to spot a story that might be of interest to us on a range of subjects: farming, floods, wind turbines, community affairs, planning, development, and so on. You’ll need to have an interest in a wide range of topics that might affect the environment. No specific qualifications or experience are required, but the following would be especially helpful in performing the role effectively: • • • • •
knowledge of the local area an interest in and commitment to environmental matters the ability to get to the heart of a news story to assess its appropriateness knowledge of the environment/voluntary/local authority sector social media experience
We will provide training and support. Why volunteer? If you are looking for relevant skills for your CV, this is a great way of getting hands-on experience, plus the potential for training to fill in any knowledge gaps. Or you may be looking to give something back with the skills you already have. We can offer a fulfilling role and interesting role, a chance to get to know your local area even better and the opportunity to meet like-minded people. A company limited by guarantee Registered in England number 04443278 Registered charity number 1093081.
Whatever your motivation, you will be making a positive and worthwhile contribution to the protection of our beautiful local countryside. Estimated time This is very flexible depending on the time you can offer. The ideal would be couple of hours a week for a few months. Let us know what you can do. Background information Most of your work can be done at home but you may, from time to time, like to join us at our Branch Office in Wheatley. Agreed expenses will be paid (please see our Volunteer Policy). About CPRE Oxfordshire CPRE Oxfordshire campaigns for a beautiful and thriving Oxfordshire countryside. Founded in 1931, we have been helping to protect and improve our local landscape and rural communities for more than 80 years. We seek to influence how we plan our villages, towns and city to make them better places to live and work, to ensure the countryside is protected for all to enjoy, for now and for future generations. We are an independent registered charity, run almost entirely by local volunteers. We are part of the national charity CPRE (The Campaign to Protect Rural England). www.cpreoxon.org.uk Interested? Please contact our administrator Becky Crocket, phone 01865 874780 or email
[email protected] for an informal chat. Or send us a CV and a covering letter telling us why you think this voluntary role is for you.
