Apply for a Specific Role

 

Are you looking to put your skills to use and keep your CV up to date? Apply for a specific volunteer role!

 

Please submit your current CV, letter of intent and writing sample (if applicable) to Judith Long, Office Manager.

 

 

Volunteer Manager Position

The Volunteer Manager position is responsible for overseeing, communicating to and arranging volunteers for Make-A-Wish® Luxembourg events and fundraisers. You will continue to develop our volunteer webpage through web development platform, Wix. You must be comfortable learning and editing this site until the our new Make-A-Wish® Luxembourg site is launched in the near future. This position is also responsible for managing all sensitive volunteer data and documents through our email platform, MailChimp and tracking volunteer statistics. It is also important to have organizational and communicative skills as you are responsible for messaging volunteers about upcoming events and creating positive, engaging relationships with our volunteers.

 

Other responsibilities include:

• Recruiting volunteers

• Assessing organizational need and capacity for volunteers

• Developing volunteer position descriptions based on the needs of the organisation

• Promoting volunteering (internally and externally) through recruitment and publicity strategies and campaigns

• Screening and matching volunteers to organizational needs and opportunities

• Training and orientation for volunteers

• Scheduling (via EventBrite, registration system) and supervision of volunteers

• Organize the creation of volunteer materials

• Monitoring, supporting, motivating and accrediting volunteers for their work

 

More information:

• English and French are mandatory

• German and/or Luxembourgish speaker is an added bonus

• Must have own computer

• 10-12 hours per week (perhaps more during initial phase)

 

 

Translators

It is our goal to communicate to our volunteers and affiliates in their own language in order to communicate the Make-A-Wish® Luxembourg mission properly. We need translators to read through original material (typically English or French) and rewrite it in the target language (English or French), ensuring that the meaning of the source text is retained. Additionally, you would be responsible for proofreading and editing final translated versions and providing us with a grammatically correct, well-expressed final version of the translated text. Additionally, it might also be important to liaison with the original writer discuss any unclear points. We currently need translators on an ongoing basis for the following:

•English to French (including a dedicated English to French translator for newsletter)

•French to English

 

Additionally, we need occasional translators for the following languages:

•English to German

•English to Luxembourgish

•English to Portuguese

•German to English/French

•Luxembourgish to English/French

•Portuguese to English/French

 

 

 

Writers (English and French) / Proofreaders

Make-A-Wish® Luxembourg always wants to share our stories with the Luxembourg community. If you have a passion for writing and would like to cover our wishes, events and/or fundraisers, please let us know. We currently need writers in both English and French for the following:

•Dedicated writers/proofreaders for Newsletter

•Wishes

•Website

•World Wish Day®

•Concours d’Elegance

•Press Releases

•Interviews with our Club 100 and other affiliate companies

•Other various events

 

More information:

•Must be a native (or equivalent) English or French speaker

•Time committment will vary for each event

•Please provide a writing sample when applying