WIC Pro Bono Opportunities
Women in Consulting (WIC) Pro Bono Opportunities
When you serve on a WIC team or committee, you’re helping fellow consultants, the WIC organization, and the entire business community. Volunteering also benefits you. There are many good reasons to become involved, such as:
- Expanding your business and personal network, with both WIC members and the professionals you recruit and assist with their programs
- Demonstrating your skills and abilities to other professionals
- Deepening your relationships with colleagues
- Building self-confidence by taking on and mastering new marketable job skills
- Enhancing your resume
- Exposure to the best practices of business thought-leaders
- Satisfaction of making a difference
Marketing & PR Openings
Contact: Avery Horzewski (avery@aveconsulting.com)
Message Board Coordinator
- Anticipated time commitment: 2 – 3 hours per month
- Purpose: promote WIC events to various news, calendar, and social media outlets
- Responsibilities: post event descriptions (written by marketing) for WIC’s general meetings, webinars, and workshops/special events to the various message boards
Momentum Release Coordinator
- Anticipated time commitment: 2 – 3 hours per month
- Purpose: help promote all the great activities that WIC hosts via quarterly press releases, as well as other monthly releases to highlight WIC’s programs, partnerships, and other noteworthy news
- Responsibilities: coordinate/manage the monthly momentum releases with marketing director and outside PR resource, review/edit press release drafts and route for internal approval (and occasionally write a first draft), and post releases to WIC’s website (outside resource pitches and distributes)
Consultant Profile Coordinator
- Anticipated time commitment: 2 – 3 hours per month
- Purpose: help promote all the knowledge leadership of WIC by identifying WIC members to profile for various consulting and business publications.
- Responsibilities: identify WIC members who would make good profile subjects, interview the identified members and write a profile, and work with the PR director & PR consultant to finalize profiles for submission (PR consultant will pitch the profiles to the publications)
Social Media Openings
Contact: Jean Lombard (jeanlombard@me.com)
Required skills for each social media role:
- An understanding of social media OR a strong interest in learning about social media
- Ability to manage projects effectively and see them through to completion
- Ability to think strategically and act tactically
- Solid communication skills and experience working as part of a virtual team
Social Media Co-Chair
- Anticipated time commitment: 2 – 2 ½ hours per week
- Develop WIC social media strategy in conjunction with the WIC’s other social media chair and the online marketing director; this includes researching the various options/tools and which ones make sense for WIC to adopt
- Develop a plan for evaluating/rolling out new social media tools/resources
- Help identify resources to rollout new tools, most likely to be ongoing coordinator roles (support roles to chairs), and manage/coordinate coordinators (the idea behind coordinators is to lighten the load by spreading the work amongst a few WIC members)
- Manage the WIC blog, acting as the main co-administrator, approving/disapproving comments, sending reminders to contributors to post, writing posts for the blog, and identifying opportunities to promote the WIC blog
Blog Coordinator
- Anticipated time commitment: 1 – 2 hours per week
- Responsibilities: co-manage the WIC blog with WIC’s social media chair, acting as the main administrator, including approving/disapproving comments, sending reminders to contributors to post, writing posts for the blog, monitoring posts and cleaning up the blog as needed, and identifying opportunities to promote the WIC blog.
Twitter Coordinator
- Anticipated time commitment: 15 minutes per day
- Responsibilities: manage the WIC Twitter presence, including answering questions posed; posting events; posting links to WIC blog posts; reciprocating follows where it makes sense; monitoring any discussions about WIC on Twitter; hosting regular chats; encouraging social media chairs, WIC president, and director of PR & marketing to post to the Twitter account; assisting satellites with setting up Twitter IDs; and anything else deemed appropriate based on research and assessments.
Website Openings
Contact: Jean Lombard (jeanlombard@me.com)
Web Content Chair- Anticipated time commitment: 5 – 10 hours
- Overview: oversee content updates on womeninconsulting.org website, working with various WIC teams, clean-up coordinators, and the Web technical chair to keep the site up-to-date
- Required skills: experience with or comfortable with technology and “poking around” to become familiar with new tools, solid writing/editing skills, ability to manage projects effectively, ability to think strategically and act tactically, and solid communication skills and experience working on a virtual team
Partnership Openings
Contact: Sherry Prescott (sherry_prescott@yahoo.com)
New Partner Alliances Co-Chair
- Anticipated time commitment: 5 – 10 hours
- Overview: enthusiastic, dynamic individual who can help grow and sustain WIC’s partnership relationships. This is an excellent opportunity to meet and work with many
- Responsibilities: evaluate potential new partners for the value they bring to WIC’s membership and help establish new relationships with organizations interested in partnering with WIC, including negotiating and finalizing agreements. Excellent interpersonal skills are essential for this role.
Programs & Member Education Openings
Contact: Deborah Hoard (dhoard@get-net-results.com)
Webinar Co-Chairs (2 needed)
- Anticipated time commitment: 8 – 10 hours per month
- Responsibilities: setting topic direction for WIC webinars in 2010 and managing call and speaker logistics for 8 - 10 webinars (each co-chair will manage half of the webinars)
Workshop Co-Chairs
- Anticipated time commitment: 8 – 10 hours per month
- Responsibilities: setting topic direction for WIC’s quarterly workshops in 2010 and managing speaker and event logistics, including securing locations and speakers (each co-chair will manage half of the workshops)
Speaker Coordinators
- Anticipated time commitment: 15 - 20 hours per general event
- Responsibilities: each coordinator will manage all speaker associated tasks—including securing the speaker, getting necessary topic and bio information, and working with the speaker the night of the event—for at least one general meeting in 2010
Membership Openings
Contact: Kathie Sherman (ksherman@tenfourmarketing.com)
Member Recruitment Chairtor
- Anticipated time commitment: 8 – 10 hours per month
- Responsibilities: selecting one member recruitment project and implementing that project
Operations Openings
Contact: Jen Berkley (jberkley@theinsightadvantage.com)
Schedule/Traffic Coordinator
- Anticipated time commitment: 1 hour per week
- Responsibilities: overseeing WIC’s event/program calendar to make sure that all deadlines are being met and to send out reminder emails to responsible parties
Communication & Events Openings
Contact: Deb McClanahan (info@broadbandhr.com)
Special Events Chair
- Anticipated time commitment: 8 hours in a concentrated period (6 – 8 weeks)
- Responsibilities: coordinating special events that WIC holds in 2010 (currently this is the annual member holiday party in December), which involves event management and coordination activities
Editor
- Anticipated time commitment: 3-6 hours per month
- Responsibilities: solicit and edit articles of interest to the WIC Community, and solicit and edit news from WIC members
One-Time Project Help
Contact: Avery Horzewski (avery@aveconsulting.com)
WIC has several projects requiring a one-time commitment vs. an ongoing time commitment. Contributors need to feel comfortable with a computer and be willing to contribute roughly 4 – 6 hours. The work can be done from your own office at any time that’s convenient for you. The goal is to have the work finished by end of first quarter 2010.
Transfer Project Files (1 – 2 people)
- Download branding, PR, and marketing files on old project management server and upload them to new project management server
Clean Up WIC Website (4 – 6 people)
- Take responsibility for a section of the website (membership, resources, etc.)
- Review it for accuracy, identify out of date content, and get updated content from the section owners
- Enter updated content in WIC’s content management system
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