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Calling passionate, creative young people to volunteer at Youth Tree 14/10/09

by Tim Kenworthy

Image by Cat Gomersall

Youth Tree is a youth-run initiative based in Western Australia. We use creativity and fun to involve more young people in volunteering.

Volunteer staff positions are now open at Youth Tree on a brand-new project called Big Help Mob; an army of young people who will perform monthly massive favours for Perth-based non-profits from tree-planting to wall-painting, beach-cleaning and beyond. Imagine 100 young people from all across Perth coming together regularly to get their hands dirty doing good and celebrating with enormous flash-mobs of ludicrous stupidity. This is a unique opportunity for those who care about youth community involvement to create big change, bring
volunteering into the mainstream and help grow an organisation. Together we can create a world where volunteering is as mainstream as cheeseburgers and breathing!

Youth Tree is looking for passionate, creative, hardworking and friendly people (often more accurately described as “nerds with social skills”) aged 14-30 to fill the following positions. Each position is for a minimum period of 12 months commencing in November 2009. Positions are on a voluntary basis and will involve an ongoing commitment of 10-15 hours per week. Applicants must be aged between 14 and 30 years old but age is irrelevant if you’re within this age bracket.

Go to the Youth Tree website for more details on the position titles
below:

  • Public Relations, Marketing and Promotion Manager – Someone who is good at making lots of noise in the media and marketing world, knows their stuff, and enjoys working with people.
  • Operations and Logistics Manager – The type of person who gets a kick out of running sheets, flow charts and sticking to schedules, while understanding that not everyone shares their twisted passion.
  • Artistic Co-Director – A creative person from any arts background with a passion for collaboration with other creatives, and for getting large groups of people to do spectacular and bizarre things in public for fun. Egos should be left out in the rain before applying.
  • Web Development Lead – Someone with some serious web development skills who is into open source, social media, building Facebook apps and wants to leverage the power of mass collaboration to do good.
  • Film and Photography Co-Director – A skilled film-maker and/or photographer with a passion for telling good stories who is able to collaborate with other film-makers and photographers without getting violent
  • Business and Partnerships Manager – A people person with grant-writing skills, a head for negotiation and building real relationships.

Fill in the online form at www.youthtree.org.au/apply.html by 5pm, Tuesday October the 20th. Successful applicants will be notified by email by October 23rd to arrange an interview.