NEWS: GGS Volunteer Appeal 2017

Apply Now! More Volunteers Wanted at Girl Geek Scotland
We lots of exciting things planned for 2017 and still need more volunteers.

Working With Us
Girl Geek Scotland has always relied on volunteers to help us create our world class events. We fit our work into coffee breaks and after hours effort. Many hands make light work, and for every event we have an “All hands on deck approach!”. This means that the Lead for one event will offer support to the Lead on another event. You may be coordinating Industry Leaders for one event and serving wine at the next!

As we are expanding there is a need for clearer lines of communication, and we are now developing specific roles that meet the needs of our community, funders and partner organisations. If you are prepared to roll up your sleeves, we can help you reach your ambitions!

How to Apply
Please answer the following questions in an email to jayne@girlgeekscotland.com with the Subject Heading: VOLUNTEER

  1. What role do you want to apply for?
  2. What is *your* ambition for Girl Geek Scotland?
  3. How do you see your efforts and skills being used to greatest effect?
  4. How specifically will this role help you in your own career and life?

Volunteer Now With Girl Geek Scotland

Mentoring Relationship Manager (2 roles)
Purpose: to manage the relationships with mentors and mentees including initial matching

  • Attend up to 4 Mentoring Events and support on the ground logistics
  • Attend 4 or more RM meetings for matching mentors and mentees
  • Keeping everyone informed of progress (emails etc) & ensure any safety info is adhered to
  • Gather mentor & mentee details & design questionnaires and surveys for marketing
  • Ensure Next Steps are always clear to sponsors & delegates

Ideally our Relationship Managers will have good relationships with a number of large organisations that can help provide mentors for our mentoring programme. An understanding of routes to career progression is an advantage.
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Event Curation, Themes for 2017: Enterprise & Access to Funding
Purpose: To coordinate speakers, detail content and manage on the ground logistics for each event.

  • Select Industry Speakers & Chair and manages expectations
  • Negotiate content and format for panel sessions with guests
  • Manage team on the ground inc. budget, venue, delegate numbers, tech support, catering etc
  • Liaise with Comms to develops all communications and marketing materials including information for sponsors and post event reports
  • Liaise with Education to create Resource Packs

Must have an outgoing personality and a strong interest in access to funding for business, for under-represented groups. This is a good fit for someone with a qualification in education or business & enterprise.  
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Education Development Officer, For Entrepreneurs
Purpose: To provide consistent high quality, learning resource packs for each Panel event. 2017 themes will focus on Cyber Security and Access to Funding for Entrepreneurs in Underrepresented Groups. * We expect these resources to be distributed Scotland wide through our existing Partner organisations.

  • Consult with the Programme Manager, Event Lead and Speakers
  • Create a pack of resources for online access
  • Analyse and review speaker videos and transcripts to extract key learnings
  • Consult with audience for feedback and guidance on future sessions
  • Produce of Project Briefs and other bespoke GGS materials as required
  • Relationship building with partner organisations
  • Sign-post members to other organisations that can help

Must have a strong interest in creativity, computing and enterprise. This will be a good fit for someone who has a qualification or experience in education or training.
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Education Development Officer, Mentoring
Purpose: To provide consistent high quality, learning resource packs for each Mentoring event.

  • Consult with the Programme Manager, Event Lead and Speakers
  • Create a pack of resources for online access
  • Analyse and review of speaker videos and transcripts to extract key learnings
  • Consult with audience for feedback and guidance on future sessions
  • Produce Project Briefs and other bespoke GGS materials as required
  • Develop a network of partner organisations to help distribute our resources
  • Sign-post members to other organisations that can help

Must have a strong interest in creativity, computing and enterprise. This will be a good fit for someone who has a qualification or experience in education or training.
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Online Community, Network Manager
Purpose: To engage with and develop our online Mentoring Community.

  • Engage with online community daily
  • Steer discussions through regular posting of links and stimulus questions
  • Invite & coordinate input from Industry Thought Leaders and manage online events
  • Sign-post members to good quality resources both internally and externally

Must have a strong interest in creativity, computing and enterprise and an outgoing personality. A qualification in a subject such as Journalism, PR, English or Community Management is a bonus.
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Developer Coach for Coding Workshop & Hackathons (Blockchain)
Up to 6 people needed for 3 half day events, and adhoc online support over a period of 6 weeks.
Purpose: To lead a “student” team of up to 3 beginner and intermediate developers, in learning some basic coding skills, and to support them to develop a short project as part of a Coding Workshop and Hackathon on Blockchain. About Blockchain: http://www.ted.com/talks/don_tapscott_how_the_blockchain_is_changing_money_and_business
Blockchain and the Scottish Economy: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2411012/2411012-6207148306670325762?trk=hp-feed-group-discussion

  • Support Workshop Lead with prep and on the ground logistics
  • Identify useful resources to support learning Blockchain or Chain Core and associated languages
  • Be able to work through some basic tutorials with students
  • Support the conceptualisation and planning of development for a project brief
  • Be able to help students fix and debug code
  • Offer adhoc online support over a 6 week period in Feb & March 2017 (dates tbc)

Must have good communication skills and a strong interest in supporting under-represented people in technology. An ability to learn new coding languages, and to help others in their learning, is essential!

Strong experience in Java/ Python/ C++ or another general purpose language. The focus will be on creating web or mobile apps, so front end skills that fit with Blockchain or Chain such as java (android) or swift (apple), or (for web apps) javascript/html/css/php/json will be useful. Some previous knowledge of Blockchain, Chain Core or other languages are a bonus – but not required. (Chain is an API developed specifically for the Financial Industry – see https://chain.com/ for more info).
** Please let us know if you have a preferred suite.

Will be a good fit for people who hold a qualification in computer science, or who work as professional developers. We are particularly keen to get applications from people with experience teaching or coaching!
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UX Coach for Coding Workshop & Hackathons
3-4 people needed for 3 half day events and adhoc online support over a period of 6 weeks.
Purpose: To support student groups to design and develop their front end skills as part of a Coding Workshop and Hackathon around Blockchain.

  • Support Workshop Lead with prep and on the ground logistics
  • Identify useful resources to support learning HTML, CSS and associated languages
  • Be able to work through some basic tutorials with students
  • Support the conceptualisation and planning of development for a project brief
  • Be able to help students fix and debug code
  • Offer adhoc online support over a 6 week period in Feb & March 2017 (dates tbc)

Must have good communication skills and a strong interest in supporting under-represented people in technology. An ability to learn new coding languages, and to help others in their learning, is essential!

Strong experience HTML, CSS, Javascript and other front end languages for web and mobile apps. The focus will be on creating web or mobile apps with Blockchain, so experience working with Java/ Python/ C++ or other general purpose languages will be useful. Some previous knowledge of Blockchain, Chain Core or other languages are a bonus – but not required. (Chain is an API developed specifically for the Financial Industry – see https://chain.com/ for more info).
** Please let us know if you have a preferred suite.

Will be a good fit with people who hold a qualification in computer science, or who work as professional UX designers. We are particularly keen to get applications from people with experience teaching or coaching!

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We know you are awesome and we’d love you to join our team. Please get in touch.
Morna

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