Volunteer Social Media Coordinator

Social Media Coordinator

Volunteer, 2-3 hours per week, potential for future paid position

About Linked Mentoring

Linked Mentoring, a nonprofit organization, was founded in 2019 to connect, empower, and inspire LGBTQ+ youth. Our mission is to create transformative mentorship opportunities where LGBTQ+ young people are invited to explore their passions, agency, and personhood alongside an intergenerational community.

Role Overview

This role aims to leverage digital advocacy and content creation as tools to grow the community we serve and expand our mission. The goal this role aims to achieve is to increase the number of participants and visibility of Linked Mentoring. This role is key in growing and sustaining Linked Mentoring’s position in the world as an uplifting organization for LGBTQIA+ young adults, youth, and their families.

Key Tasks

• Create regular posts on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook that elevate our mission and inspire our target audience to engage.
• Curate branded templates for common recurring posts to increase community member participation in content creation.

Who You Are

We welcome applicants with a diverse set of lived, professional, educational, and volunteer experience. Please share in your cover letter what experiences you bring that you think will be helpful in this role. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of some qualifications we think fit this role:

• Excitement about and experience creating social media strategies that uplift queer and trans youth, young adults, and their families.
• Understanding of how to set goals and measure outcomes related to social media engagement and content success.
• Comfortability with designing social media content and graphics and leveraging technology tools like Canva.
• Excitement about building trust-based relationships with staff, volunteers, and youth and prioritizing their feedback, suggestions, and needs.

Commitment to Equity

We understand that there are numerous reasons why someone would read a job description and, despite “checking off most of the boxes”, decide not to apply. Research supports that self-selecting out of potential professional opportunities is particularly common among individuals with minoritized identities or identities that are marginalized in professional spaces, such as BIPOC individuals, LGBTQ+ individuals, persons with a disability, neurodivergent individuals, and individuals with a history of institutionalization (e.g., incarceration, immigration detainment, inpatient treatment, or chronic hospitalization). If you question w