Unpaid Communications & Marketing Trustee
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Summary
We are looking for a Trustee who can help us with outreach, marketing, campaigning and sales, largely through social media.Detailed description
We are looking for someone to help us with outreach, marketing, campaigning and sales, largely through social media.
The role typically entails a commitment of 5 to 10 hours each week, including attendance at one half-day meeting per month.
The Mansion is an unfinished neo-gothic masterpiece, run by a devoted team of staff, volunteers and trustees. It is Grade I Listed and rated of international significance. Set in a remote valley amid woods and pastures, near Nailsworth, it is also home to a rare colony of Greater Horseshoe bats. The Trust’s aims are to widen its reach into every part of the community and to raise funds to complete conservation.
This role is an exciting opportunity for you to make an impact as a trustee. Your ability to communicate with a range of audiences and to harness/ integrate systems will be central but your wider interests and skills would always be welcomed.
You will have considerable operational scope working within a small and very able board.
If you are the right person, you will evidence:
- A hands-on approach to achieving goals.
- An aptitude in forming links and partnerships with stakeholders
- A preparedness to join in activities at the Mansion
- Expert communication skills and related know how in (non-exhaustively):
- Web and social media optimisation
- On-line marketing, campaigning and sales
- Recruitment and management of consultants/suppliers.
- Staff Training.
- Understanding of the Charity sector.
About Woodchester Mansion Trust
It is an unfinished masterpiece. Building started about 1857, but stopped in the mid-1860s so floors and ceilings are missing, walls not plastered and windows unglazed. All the secrets of the construction of the Mansion are visible - something visitors will never see in another country house.
The Mansion was designed by a young local architect, Benjamin Bucknall from Rodborough. He produced a unique Gothic Revival house which blends the local traditional work in limestone with the ideas of the French architectural thinker Viollet-le-Duc.
If you are interested in the Mansion and its history we have a book.
The quality of the stone carvings in the Mansion is outstanding: some are inspired by the plants in the surrounding valley and others are life-like images of animals. There are also real mammals to be seen as the Mansion houses breeding colonies of Greater and Lesser Horseshoe bats.
Owned by Stroud District Council, the Mansion is managed by the Woodchester Mansion Trust (it is not a National Trust property). On Open Days visitors can see how the house was built, admire the fine carvings and look at the bats on CCTV. Refreshments are available, we have a gift shop and the surrounding Woodchester Park (National Trust) can be explored. It is also possible to arrange private tours and hire of the Mansion.