About the Role

This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated, creative individual who is interested in raising the charities platform through social media, to get involved and run our New TikTok account. Community leadership and participation (both online and offline) is integral to this role, communicating Cloth Cat Studios brand in a positive, authentic way will boost our profile and ability to reach more vulnerable adults and children.

Main Activities

• Help create and maintain our TikTok account
• Use TikTok to promote the activities and achievements of Cloth Cat
• Keeping our social media channels updated on a frequent basis with TilTok’s you produce.
• Encouraging others to comment on our posts and share them with others
• Monitor and respond to communications received on TikTok
• Ensure that communication reaches a wide range of local stakeholders and diverse audience
• Develop, post and manage content for our TikTok account
• Help educate the team about TikTok and best ways Cloth Cat can use the platform
• Select relevant channels to reach our diverse audiences
• Help our Business volunteer track the effectiveness of our social media work and recommend ways forward.
• Test content and review its impact with our Business Volunteer
• Keeping up to date with Cloth Cat events and news, and choose what to promote through our TickTok account.

Qualities/ Experience & Skills required

• An understanding and good knowledge of TikTok, able to create relevant material suitable to different social media platforms.
• To be able to communicate effectively, be articulate, with strong writing skills and the ability to feedback accurately.
• Ability to transform small snippets of information into interesting and engaging stories.
• Ideally a resident of Leeds.
• Good understanding of confidentiality and date protection.
• The ability to work equally well in a team and unsupervised.

Cloth Cat are a charity based in inner-city Leeds that uses music training to help local people improve the quality of their lives. We help people to gain control over their lives and find avenues into employment by providing the opportunity to learn a variety of skills and to develop their musical talent. By doing this, we also provide a basis for empowerment, confidence building and making music contacts that will become ever more useful as their abilities continue to grow towards their future.

Training

All Cloth Cat volunteers receive a clear and concise induction covering our policies, procedures, problem solving, confidentiality, boundaries and much more. Further training is available through 3^rd parties and each volunteer is required to undertake the relevant training required to carry out their role.

Expenses

Volunteers should not be out of pocket while carrying out their volunteering role with Cloth Cat. They will be entitled to have their travel costs reimbursed along with any other out of packet expense incurred while fulfilling the role.

DBS

Due to the nature of work we do with Vulnerable Adults and Children a DBS will be required. This is done at no cost to the volunteer and in accordance with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Anyone with criminal convictions will not be discriminated against but will require to undertake a Risk Assessment in line with the volunteer role they have applied for. 

Equality & Diversity

Cloth Cat actively implements an Equality and Diversity policy and celebrates the diversity of our Leeds Society and the people we work with. As a volunteer, you will be expected to be accepting of others, to carry out your role in an anti-discriminatory manner and to value the individuality of the older people we support.