Volunteering and probono
If you’re aged 15 to 39, are passionate about the environment and doing something about it, please let us know, we’d love to have you at EarthSmiles.net! At the moment we are looking for volunteers who can:
1. Help promote environmental awareness in schools and colleges. This involves meeting school authorities, sending them promotional materials, doing presentations and events at schools or with them and finding new ways to get the message out to campuses. For this role we need people who are confident with communicating and creative and motivated in acting.
2. Help develop schools resources. We need volunteers to help develop great new resources for teachers and students on environmental issues - video clips, lesson plans, booklets, stickers - you name it! If you have an educational background or are creative this would be a good role for you.
3. Help coordinate schools section on our website and promote it in the schools in your area.
4. Help with admin tasks at the Kolkata office.
More positions are posted from time to time on the Current Volunteer Opportunities section. If you are interested in one of these roles, then fill out this Volunteer Information Form.
We also have paid positions for our creative department from time to time:
5. All Rounders. If you are posses a pleasant, outgoing and creative personality, skilled in computers, with a little exposure to design applications, traditional and computer-based, and the Internet, we could use you! In addition, videography, scripting and editing would be assets. Of course, you'd move around quite a bit, with school events and roadshows being somewhere on a long list of activities.
6. Writers. Good communication skills both written and spoken, and an independent personality. Would need to be frequently out of office for covering events or interviewing people, etc.
You would have to be situated in Kolkata for all the positions, except 1) & 2), where you can also work with us through the Internet – and widen our network of smiles!
