Volunteer with us

 
 

We are looking for people to volunteer with us in any of the teams listed below

All roles are voluntary and flexible; can be shared with a number of people; and can be done at whatever hours suit you. If you think you might be interested in being part of our next phase, then please get in touch and one of our team coordinators will contact you to tell you more about our plans and discuss how you might get involved.

As well as supporting the shift to a low carbon travel industry, playing an active role in our community will provide an excellent opportunity to grow and enhance your network and connections among our industry’s most committed, forward thinking organisations and professionals.

Please send us an email to info@tourismdeclares.com, stating which team you are interested in, how you think you’d best be able ton contribute, and roughly how much time per month you estimate being able to commit.

 
 

Outreach Team

Working to raise awareness and enable everyone in tourism to create a Climate Action Plan. If your expertise and passion lies in any of these areas, we'd love to hear from you:

Strategy

  • Developing and delivering our outreach and communications strategy across content, events, partnerships, PR and more.

Outreach

  • Approaching and presenting Tourism Declares to prospective signatory organisations, potential partners and at events.

Support

  • Responding to inbound queries and pre-joining questions/support
  • Post joining admin (adding new member to website/making social media announcements)

Content Team

Working to inspire, educate and support our industry in signing the Glasgow Declaration and delivering Climate Action Plans. If you're skilled in any of these areas, get in touch:

Strategy

Strategic and managerial support to coordinate our content team.

Video

Producing, for example, expert insights, interviews or promotional content.

Writing

Producing, for example, written interviews with signatories, stories, case studies and useful resources.

Design

Helping us deliver a compelling and consisent visual identity.

Research

Supporting content creators and signatories in delivering Climate Action Plans.

Webinars

Hosts for on site webinars.

General support

Updating website content, text + video.

Social media

Co-ordinating and managing our social activity.

Community Team

Our Community Platform is helping signatories and their teams to connect with each other, access resources and expertise, and collaborate in order to deliver their Climate Action plans and develop a shared vision for the future of tourism

Inside of the platform are various groups where people can connect with those focussed on similar sectors, regions and issues. We currently have the following active groups:

  • SECTORAL - Accommodation, Tour Operators, Travel Agent, Destinations, Academia, Online, Media
  • REGIONAL - One for each continent
  • FOCUS - Climate Justice, 2030 Blueprint. More will no doubt develop as the community evolves.

Community manager

We are looking for Community Manager(s) to:

  • Source and coordinate sufficient group coordinators to ensure smooth running of the platform and groups.
  • Take responsibility for the platform content, user guides, onboarding/help articles, navigation, features + tools, group admin, etc.
  • Write a fortnightly members newsletter capturing progress over previous 2 weeks and highlighting what's coming up.
  • Coordinate with experts and content teams as necessary to support the needs of the network.

Group Coordinators

We are looking for Group Co-ordinators to:

  • Introduce new members and experts to groups.
  • Facilitate conversations inside groups.
  • Ensure people get answers - co-ordinating with experts as necessary.
  • Monitor conversations to save useful answers and resources in the Resource Library for future reference.

Experts

We're looking to welcome sectoral and regional experts from academia, consulting, technical and operational backgrounds who are able to provide support and guidance to the network of signatories. Areas of support include;

  • Joining the signatory platform to contribute your expert insights and recommendations in response to questions and discussions.
  • Appearing in webinars / videos or answering questions for written Q&As.
  • Contributing to Resource Libraries.
  • Contributing to the creation of the 2030 Tourism Climate Blueprint to be presented at COP26 in Nov 2021.

Ops and Support Team

There are lots of other areas we could use skilled volunteers, including:

  • Volunteer recruitment and coordination - getting great people like you involved, set up and organised.
  • Finance, book-keeping and admin - there's not much money floating about, but we still need someone to manage it and keep us legal.
  • Basic technical and systems support - making sure people have access to relevant systems, email, software etc.
  • Student placement support - connecting sustainable tourism students with organisations that would benefit from their time.