Donated Stock Engagement Volunteer

**About the Donated Stock Team**

The Donated Stock Team is responsible for driving stock donations across the whole of retail and stimulating partnerships that will lead to stock donations. We also work on for brand awareness through social media.

The team is incredibly passionate about the work they do and are proud of their achievements, including increasing stock donations by +50% year to date and winning the Sense Team Award for Professional Excellence. This role provides our team the support to help raise income through our shops with a focus organisation administrative support.

**Key duties**
- Supporting Sense Shops to grow their social media presence with a focus on encouraging people to donate their stock.
- Creating support material to encourage people to recycle, reuse and declutter pre-loved clothing and items within local communities around our shops.
- Plan activities to increase growth through targeted outreach.
- Collate and manage data to measure impact.
- Connect with community groups, local schools, and other organisations.

**Skills & qualities**
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience of working with Instagram and Facebook.
- Passionate about Sense’s mission and the positive impact recycling and reusing pre-loved clothing can have on our world.
- Able to engage professionally with people from all backgrounds.
- Able to create and maintain and accurate records.
- Self-motivated and supportive of other team members.
- Organised and able to prioritise effectively.
- Creative, able to innovate to find new ways to generate stock.
- Good level of IT literacy.
- Experience of social media and marketing would is preferred, but not essential.

**What Sense offers**
- A full induction with ongoing support and guidance from the Donated Stock team.
- The chance to be involved in a wide range of exciting activities and events.
- The opportunity to make an invaluable contribution to Sense and the people we support.
- A reference for other paid or voluntary work (available on request).
- A way to put your skills and experience to practice, helping reduce waste to landfill and helping Sense achieve our mission.
- Our site has free parking available to our volunteers.

**Our values**

Everything we do is underpinned by five core values. These values shape the way we work as we pursue our vision of a world where no one, no matter how complex their disabilities, is isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential.
- We include
- We collaborate
- We find a way
- We challenge
- We celebrate