Beyond the Wards Canada (Outreach Coordinator (Remote) – Beyond the Wards Canada)

Organization Name: Beyond the Wards Canada
Opportunity Title: Outreach Coordinator (Remote) – Beyond the Wards Canada
Category: Social and Community Service
Commitment: Less than 6 months, 6 months to 1 year, Ongoing Opportunity (> 1 year)
Start Date: May 28, 2020
End Date: May 1, 2024

Email: beyondthewards.ca@gmail.com
Website: https://forms.gle/zJLDkyYdUsMA3U699
Details:

• Appropriate for youth (i.e., less than 18)
• Appropriate for volunteers aged between 18 and 55
• Appropriate for volunteers aged 55 and over
• Training or orientation required

Opportunity Description:

Beyond the Wards Canada (BTWC) is a youth-led, non-profit initiative that highlights the contributions of under-recognized essential workers. While we don’t want to take light away from medical workers who are tirelessly fighting COVID-19, it’s important for us to also look beyond the hospital wards and see the heroes that occupy our day-to-day lives too. These heroes include the people we rely on every day: community service and social workers, transportation workers, sanitation and custodial workers, postal service and delivery workers, teachers and childcare workers, food and agriculture workers, retail and manufacturing workers, and public health workers. During this pandemic, our goal is to provide essential workers with extra support through meaningful and uplifting messages of encouragement, kindness, and appreciation. These messages harness the evidence-based health benefits of kindness, which bolster both the mental and physical well-being of essential workers during this especially difficult time. Within 10 months, BTWC has recruited over 90 volunteers, received hundreds of message submissions, and connected with thousands of essential workers across Canada. OUTREACH COORDINATOR: – Communicating (via email) with essential workers and essential companies, businesses, institutions, and organizations across Canada to deliver BTWC’s uplifting message submissions – Encourage your network and the public to create and submit messages to essential workers through the Submission Form on our website – Ideal candidate should be a strong writer, detail-oriented, and able to represent BTWC with professionalism – Approximate time commitment: 2 hours per week