Join Our Team

Hollaback! Melbourne is currently looking for volunteers! Interested in working with us? We are seeking motivated people for the following positions:

• Website Manager
• Regular Contributors

Follow each link for a detailed job description. We will be accepting applications for these positions until WEDNESDAY MAY 15.

Do you think you have other skills that you’d like to contribute to the cause? If you have an idea for a potential project or event, feel free to email us at melbourne@ihollaback.org.

 

Hollaback! Melbourne Content Manager & Editor

Position Summary

In this role it will be your responsibility to oversee the operation and maintenance of Hollaback! Melbourne’s WordPress site, and to coordinate the posting of articles and submissions to the site.

 

Role Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the updating and maintenance of the Hollaback! Melbourne WordPress site.
• Liaising with team members and regular contributors to ensure new material is posted regularly and is of high quality.
• Structuring and overseeing the posting schedule for the WordPress site, and following up when necessary.
• Updating the ‘About Us’, ‘Press’ and ‘Join’ sections of the site as needed.
• Moderating pingbacks and comments to the site on a daily basis, and publishing story submissions.

This role is for an initial 12 month commitment (2 month trial period) with possibility of extension if mutually agreed. The time commitment per week is flexible, and can range between 2 – 5 hours per week. We expect the time commitment to fluctuate week to week.  All roles are volunteer based and unpaid.

 

General Selection Criteria

• Great organisational skills!
• Ability to communicate effectively (especially via the web) and manage several different writers to submit their work on time.
• Basic proof-reading skills
• Flexibility and ability to work to deadlines
• Good editing skills
• Ability to work independently within a small team
• Familiarity with WordPress is favourable, but not a deal breaker.
• Interest in feminism and women’s issues is a MUST!

 

About the Organisation

Hollaback! Melbourne is the local branch of the international movement to end street harassment. Spearheaded by three co-directors you will be working within a collaborative and flexible environment with like-minded people. We are happy to orient the role to suit your professional development needs.

 

Applying

Think you’ve got what it takes? Tell us a bit about why you want to end street harassment, why you’re the right person for this role! Attach a resume and we’ll be in touch soon.

 

You can address your application or any questions to Alanna Inserra at melbourne@ihollaback.org.

 

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Hollaback! Melbourne Regular Contributors

Position Summary

Are you passionate about feminism, street harassment or gender equality? Do you like to vent your rage in an eloquent manner over the internet? Do you like to present well-researched pieces? Do you like writing cultural commentaries? Do you like commenting on current events? Do you feel you have a voice? Do you have a unique perspective on LGBTQI issues or want to write about your experiences? Well then we have the job for you!

Hollaback! Melbourne is seeking regular contributors to write blog and opinion pieces for the Hollaback! Melbourne site.

 

Role Responsibilities include:

• Committing to writing a weekly, fortnightly or monthly column for Hollaback! Melbourne. It is our vision that you would put your name to the writing, so our readers get to know individual voices, and that there would be a ‘theme’ to your column.
• Liasing with the Website Content Manager & Editor to co-ordinate your posting, and uploading your article either to WordPress or submitting via email.
• Include pictures, videos and other engaging content in your work and providing the sources for these.
• For example: writing an engaging and thought provoking fortnightly summary on what’s going on in the Australian feminist blogosphere – The State of the Streets.
• Commenting on current issues or events regularly, with a particular theme or distinct ‘voice’.
• ‘Dear harasser’ letters – constructing a letter to an anonymous harasser.
• Writing our Takedown Tuesday or The F Word series (see the Hollaback! Melbourne website for previous examples).

 

You will be required to contribute thoughtful, provocative and well-researched blog content on topics developed in conjunction with the Hollaback! Melbourne team. Basically, if you want to write about something awesomely feminist on the regular – we want you!

This role will be based around a flexible work arrangement. The exact terms of the role will be defined according to the needs of the contributor and the Hollaback! Melbourne organisation.

 

General Selection Criteria

• Interest in feminism and women’s issues
• Great organisational skills
• Great written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently within a small team
• Flexibility and ability to work to deadlines

 

About the Organisation

Hollaback! Melbourne is the local branch of the international movement to end street harassment. Spearheaded by three co-directors you will be working within a collaborative and flexible environment with like-minded people. We are happy to orient the role to suit your professional development needs.

 

Applying

Think you’ve got what it takes? Tell us a bit about your interests and why you’re the right person for this role! Attach a ‘Pitch’ (an outline for a piece or series of pieces, or just what you feel you have to contribute) and we’ll be in touch soon.

 

You can address your application or any questions to Alanna Inserra at melbourne@ihollaback.org.

 

Like us on Facebook at Hollaback! Melbourne and follow us on Twitter at Hollaback_Melb

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