UNPAID Volunteer - Copcommunications Champion

COP
31 Communications Champion

This is an unpaid volunteering role. Role nature:
Volunteer, temporary.

Location:

Home-based and on-site. Time: 2-4 days per week (until two months after the completion of COP
31).

The Blockchain & Climate Institute (BCI) is an international volunteers-led think tank supporting and advocating the application of blockchain technology in the global fight against climate change.

We are looking for a creative volunteer with excellent oral and writing skills who takes a strategic approach to their work, builds professional relationships with media or relevant stakeholders, and enhances the impact of the BCI's initiatives within our targeted audiences. As a member of the Communications Officer Grade, this role is a time-limited one and will be significantly focusing on activities associated with BCI participation in the COP
31.

The COP
31 Communications Champion (equivalent to a Senior Communications Manager) will be supported by Senior Communications Officers and Communications Officers. The postholder must be able to attend COP
31 in Antalya, Turkey for its entire duration.

Your responsibilities (dependent on your work stream) will include:

• Supporting the Head of Communications & Public Affairs;
• Coordinating the communications-related preparation work so that the BCI has the right people, material, technology, and resources at COP
  31, in person and virtually, to support key allies and partners (including governments and international agencies) to pitch to potential collaborators;
• Maximizing BCI's publicity by supporting comms work at relevant COP events - including meetings, interviews, recording side-events, editing, streaming, and social media push and articles through the BCI website;
• Coordinating post-COP follow-up communications-related tasks (including co-ordinating the post event messaging, internal BCI and external comms, business events, and the compilation of videos with the Creative Unit);
• Raising the profile of the BCI among audiences both within and outside the climate change policy community by identifying opportunities in press, on website or social media in the context of COP
  31;
• Supporting in the implementation of the BCI's communications strategy;
• Proactively participating in implementing communication channels with stakeholders after the COP events;
• Generating content that will be disseminated via social media, websites, newsletters, press releases, and other distribution channels; and
• Ensuring messaging aligns with key organization strategies, etc.