About Beacon of Hope Project;

The Beacon of Hope Project is an Illawarra-based, peer-led not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the health, safety, and inclusion of women living with psychosocial disabilities and/or trauma experience. Through peer support groups, community outreach, "You Matter" packs, and monthly inclusive community markets, we build protected, hopeful, and empowering spaces where lived experience is valued and celebrated.

Key Duties

- Content Creation &
- Scheduling: Design, write, and schedule engaging posts across Instagram and Facebook highlighting upcoming events, community stories, market dates, and resources.
- Account Management: Maintain consistent posting schedules, monitor notifications, and keep account profiles and link trees up to date.
- Community Engagement: Assist in responding warmly to non-clinical comments and direct messages, fostering an inclusive and safe digital environment.
- Campaign &
- Outreach Support: Create targeted social media graphics for monthly inclusive market drives, volunteer intakes, and community fundraising initiatives.
- Brand Voice &
- Safety: Ensure all digital communications reflect a trauma-informed, hopeful, and disability-inclusive tone.

Skills &

Experience

- Preferred prior experience creating, scheduling, and managing social media accounts (preferably for a non-profit, community group, or small business).
- Knowledge with Canva or similar graphic design tools.




- Good written communication skills with an eye for accessibility (e.g., image descriptions, plain language, including WCAG guidelines in posts).
- Understanding of trauma-informed and respectful communication principles (or a willingness to learn).
- High reliability, punctuality with digital scheduling, and respect for confidentiality.

Benefits &

- Impact
- Direct Community Impact: Your digital advocacy directly amplifies the voices of women with psychosocial disabilities, raising awareness and connecting isolated individuals to peer-led support.
- Professional Growth: Gain hands-on portfolio experience in non-profit digital strategy, community outreach, and content creation.
- Supportive Environment: Work closely with our founder and core team in a flexible, encouraging, and lived-experience-led culture.
- Written volunteer reference available upon request after successful involvement.

Online or Remote

Category

Community Services

Commitment

Regular - more than 6 months

Type Of Work

Marketing, Media &

- Communications,

Time Required

Flexible | Approx. 2–3 hours per week (Average 8–12 hours per month)

We are seeking roughly 2 to 3 hours per week to help schedule content, engage with our community online, and create regular social media posts aligning with our brand colours & pallet.

Days and hours are completely flexible and self-paced. Content can be drafted and scheduled in advance around your availability, with light check-ins during the month.

📌 Social Media Volunteer & Assistant (Lake Illawarra)
🏢 Beacon of Hope Project Aus
📍 Lake Illawarra