Beat SCAD has no paid staff and is run by volunteers in their spare time. The more people who help the more we'll be able to do. If you are a SCAD patient and have benefited from our services and support, once you feel you have sufficiently recovered from your SCAD, please consider 'paying it forward' and using your skills to help other patients.
The list below is not exhaustive, so if you have experience and skills you think could help us, please get in touch.
We need…
Patients to tell their stories to groups of healthcare professionals, fundraisers, grant writers, marketers, copywriters, social media experts and database managers and more!
We are currently looking to fill the following volunteer roles.
Some of the roles incorporate various skills and knowledge and could be done by more than one volunteer, so don’t be put off if you don’t have all the things listed below! If you have some of the skills and knowledge we’re looking for, please get in touch so we can look at putting teams together.
Tell your story to healthcare professionals
Patient stories are a powerful way of bringing the personal aspect of SCAD to the fore and show the real patient experience. If you would like to tell your story or talk about SCAD to groups of healthcare professionals, either in person or online, please get in touch.
Volunteer manager
Help us recruit, train and support volunteers so we can increase awareness of SCAD, support more patients and families and raise more money.
The volunteer’s role:
- Develop a volunteer programme
- Manage the recruitment of volunteers and research other sources of voluntary help
- Design and organise volunteer training
- Manage and support volunteers
Skills & knowledge:
- proven experience of managing and developing people, especially volunteers
- excellent communication, interpersonal and networking skills
- the capacity to inspire and motivate others
Digital marketer
Help us engage our audience by creating compelling email and newsletter content.
The volunteer's role:
- Develop an understanding of Beat SCAD’s aims in order to inform email/newsletter marketing campaigns
- Create and plan an email and newsletter strategy to help us achieve our aims
- Design and implement campaigns and promotional activity
- Create engaging and relevant content for our newsletters and emails with clear calls to action and high click-through rates
Skills & knowledge:
- Strong writing and editing skills
- Experience using email marketing software (eg Mailchimp)
- Experience in creating and implementing marketing strategies
Digital analyst
Help us optimise our digital presence and communication by analysing website, newsletter and social media metrics and suggesting changes and improvements.
The volunteer’s role:
- Analyse website, newsletter and social media metrics on a regular basis and provide a summary with suggestions on what could be changed to optimise performance and impact.
- Analyse whether changes/improvements have improved performance/impact.
Skills & knowledge:
- Proven experience in analysing digital metrics and providing feedback in layman’s terms
- Proven experience in suggesting changes/solutions to optimise performance
Contact us for more information.
Fundraising manager
Help us create fundraising campaigns and raise more money to increase awareness, support SCAD patients, families and friends and fund research.
The volunteer’s role:
- Develop an understanding of Beat SCAD’s aims in order to inform fundraising campaigns
- Research and identify areas of fundraising we can tap into
- Develop a fundraising strategy with the Trustees
- Create fundraising campaigns
- Plan and implement campaigns
- Measure impact of campaigns
Skills & knowledge:
- Proven experience in creating and managing fundraising campaigns
- Ability to measure impact of campaigns
- Ability to work with Trustees and volunteers to carry out the campaign and gather feedback for impact reports and marketing
- Interest in the charity sector is desirable
Marketer/copywriter
Help us produce a Fundraising pack and improve website fundraising content so we can increase the amount of money raised for the charity.
The volunteer’s role:
- plan and write content for a fundraising pack
- write and/or improve existing website content about fundraising
Skills & knowledge:
- experience writing fundraising content
- excellent writing and editing skills
Contact us for more information.
Social media manager
Help us develop and maintain our online presence in order to maximise our awareness and impact across Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
The volunteer’s role:
- Help create a social media strategy and plan that reflects and balances our core areas of awareness, fundraising, research and support
- Develop, create and manage content for our social media channels (could include graphics, photos and videos)
- Use relevant channels to reach different audiences
- Keep our social media channels updated regularly
- Increase engagement on our social media channels
- Encourage our community to comment on posts and share our posts
- Research organisations, individuals and influencers on social media that could help us widen our reach
- Track and analyse the effectiveness of our social media content and recommend improvements.
Skills & knowledge:
- Ability to create a social media strategy
- Ability to analyse social media metrics to assess effectiveness and reach of our online presence and use that to move a strategy forward
- An understanding of marketing and how content should be tailored for different social media channels.
- Ability to transform information into interesting and engaging social media posts
- Effective communication, strong writing skills
- Experience of using Canva