Job details
Job type part-time number of hires for this role 1
Full job description
Volunteering against covid-19
Helpful engineering is seeking an event director to volunteer to help fight covid!
This is a volunteer position (we do not offer compensation)Helpful engineering volunteers work with amazing worldwide team members in a dynamic fast-moving environmentIt is also a great opportunity to build your skills and resumeCome join us!
About helpful engineering
Helpful engineering is an international, open-source community incubator focused on mobilizing people to help solve the covid-19 pandemic and other critical issuesWith thousands of volunteers worldwide, we support projects through innovations in engineering, community resources, software, and manufacturingMost of the projects are focused on finding solutions to fix the lack of products used by healthcare professionals, including hardware and software, but also non-technical products like surgical masks.
We have engineers and doctors all around the world who are producing ventilators, protective equipment, websites, and systems to organize volunteers to assist their communities and medical workersThey are making heroic efforts to produce products in time to help the outbreak.
Check out helpful engineering here: https://www.helpfulengineering.org/
For our complete list of open positions, check out our volunteer opportunities: https://airtable.com/shrwgntbuazuciv0j/tbl5bqnjl3jrkd7qp
Volunteer position description & responsibilities :
Helpful requires an individual to lead the event organizing teamThis role will involve brainstorming events with the leadership that will be conducted by helpful engineering and then mobilizing the relevant skills and resources internally and externally to professionally organize the virtual events like hackathons, conferences, etcThis will require maintaining a solid event calendar to ensure consistent engagement, support, execution, etc, and also take care of any follow-up queries post-execution.
Required experiences :
Experience in organizing large and successful eventsTook part in virtual events of similar nature i.e educational, technical, etc
Experience in social media marketing, management, and communication.
Required skills :
Communication skills
Organization skills
Press releases/writing news releases
Social network/social media
Event planning
Leadership skills
NoOf positions:
1
Weekly commitment (hrs)
10
Our organization is organic, transparent, and follows the principles of open source and effective altruismHelpful engineering expects all volunteers to adopt a professional attitude and be respectful of their fellow volunteers, which includes politeness, punctuality, giving notice, and communicating openly and transparently their work and progresses.
Job type: part-time
Pay: $0.01 per hour
Work location:
Fully remote
Work location: remote
