OUT&ABROAD is looking for volunteers!
OUT&ABROAD has been around since November 2016! We have had many passionate people help us out over the last few years and together we have organized over 50 activities! You can help us to keep going, by becoming a volunteer. Should you want to help, please read the following post and fill out the form via the link at the end of this post.
OUT&ABROAD is a non-profit organization dedicated to LGBTI Chinese and Chinese diasporas living in the Netherlands. It aims to help the community through creating a social platform for them and using different kinds of activism to promote social change.
During the past few years, we have participated in numerous Pride walks across the Netherlands. We are also organizing various educational and social activities, including monthly meet-ups, Dutch classes, Rainbow party, movie nights, museum visits, to name but a few.
Workshops, trainings and certifications
The opportunity to realize activities and event
A way to connect to our amazing community via our platform
If all goes well, we can reimburse costs to make volunteering easier
Interested and passionate for LGBT and related topics;
Able to invest a set amount of time in their department and attend meetings in the coming 6 months;We are looking for people with certain skills and qualities to support these new departments. In return we cannot offer payment, at first we can organize workshops, trainings and certifications. We offer a way to connect to our amazing community! If all goes well, we can reimburse costs to make volunteering easier. We rely completely on volunteers and their goodwill. However, we also require all volunteers to invest a set amount of time in their department and attend meetings to keep OUT&ABROAD.
Please note that the following descriptions aren’t set in stone and are rather meant to give an impression or what we are looking for. It is okay if you fit one or multiple of the following departments.
SOCIAL MEDIA
OUT&ABROAD is looking for volunteers who want to join our social media department. We are looking for people for the following tasks:
- Content generation and management
Thinking up and creating content, attracting content creators, in written form, video or photography. Content we are considering is about or for the Chinese LGBT community.
- Graphic Design
Creating designs for the organization, both for online and offline use. Think of posters, graphics and illustrations.
- Maintenance
Posting content to social media and maintaining our;
Tumblr(website), Instagram, Facebook, WeChat, WeiBo and Twitter.
We are looking for people who want to organize events and activities that resonate with our community. You will have the opportunity to realize your own ideas and part will be the continuation of existing events;
Attending the prides in The Hague, Amsterdam and Rotterdam.- Organizing interactive presentations and talks with the Chinese community in the Netherlands. Talking with them and discussing subjects related to the LGBT+ community. For this we will require people are willing to talk to strangers about these issues. We are looking for both Cantonese speakers and Mandarin speakers, as well as people with some skill in Dutch.
The events team will be working closely with our Public Relations team; finding ways to involve Dutch organizations; Roze in Blauw, IND, GGD, museums etc. As well as international organizations such as CRN, PFlag, Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association and similar organizations. Finding a balance between fun, educational and events focusing on integration or health.
OUT&ABROAD is a community, to find out what is going on in the community we want to have a dedicated team of people, sort of like ‘Administrators’ or ‘Moderators’. The team will be tasked with making sure that we have a healthy online community. Also being involved in the community and with the team of volunteers. Providing valuable feedback to finetune events and articles. As well as discussing certain topics in our groups.
- Catalyzing
The community team will be tasked with finding topics to discuss on WeChat and other social media an create a buzz, but mostly to see how certain topics are perceived by our community so we can better finetune our other activities as an organization. This can be about news or relevant topics. The point is to encourage activity in the group and on social media, discussions can be used for articles, for example, aimed at fact checking and myth busting.
- Activism
We are looking for a few people who want to start an OUT&ABROAD group focusing on LGBT+ activism. It has been our experience that LGBT+ activism is difficult, but it is something we want to encourage in order to progress as an organization and as a community. To better ourselves and to help create more understanding and acceptance among others.
If you want to volunteer, please join the interview day on the 20th of April from 13:00 in Rotterdam. To apply as a volunteer, please fill out the following form and join the WeChat group via the QR-code at the end of the page. If you are unable to attend, on the 20th of April, please schedule an appointment with Bert or Leiting on WeChat or mail us at [email protected] for an interview via call
Out & Abroad在2016年11月成立。这几年来，很多有激情的小伙伴帮助我们一起发展；我们已经组织了50多场活动！成为我们的志愿者吧，你可以帮助我们继续前行。
Out & Abroad是一个面向欧洲华人华侨性少数群体的非营利性组织。O&A旨在通过丰富多彩的线上与线下活动提升性少数群体的自我认知，同时促进社会对性少数群体的理解、支持。
在过去的几年间，我们参与了荷兰各大城市的骄傲游行，并成功组织了包括每月线下聚会、荷兰语课、彩虹趴、观影会、博物馆参观在内的各种教育及社交活动。
如果我们的后续发展顺利，我们能报销你参与志愿者活动的成本
在未来半年内可以投入固定量的时间，支持部门的工作、参与会议;
请注意：我们以下的职位描述并不是板上钉钉的，只是大致勾勒一下我们想要寻求的志愿者。你可以专门参与以下的一个部门的活动；如果你能参与以下好几个部门的活动，那也很相当棒。
我们的社交媒体部门在征求志愿者。我们寻求志愿者做以下这些任务：
- 内容创作和管理
构思、创作社交媒体内容，具体形式包括文章、视频和照片等。吸引其他的内容创作者向我们投稿。我们需要的题材是与中国LGBT社群相关的。
- 平面设计
为Out & Abroad做线上和线下的平面设计。构思海报、平面宣传材料，创作平面图像和文字。
- 社交网络维护
维护我们的网站。在社交媒体平台发布内容。我们的社交媒体账号包括Tumblr（网站）、Instagram、Facebook、微信、微博和Twitter。
我们寻求愿意组织与我们华人LGBT社群内涵相合的活动的朋友。你将会参与活动组织，并有机会实现自己的活动想法。需要组织的活动包括：
参加海牙、阿姆斯特丹和鹿特丹的骄傲节（Prides）
为在荷兰的华人举办演讲，组织与在荷华人的谈话活动。为此我们需要寻求愿意与陌生人探讨LGBT相关问题的人。我们既寻求粤语使用者、也寻求普通话使用者，还需要有一定荷兰语技能的人。
活动组织与策划部门需要与我们的公共关系团队紧密合作，寻求让荷兰的政府组织、社会组织参与、支持我们的活动，具体包括Roze in Blauw（Pink in Blue，荷兰的公益组织，以减少针对LGBT的性暴力和帮助性暴力受害者为主要目标）、IND（移民局）、GGD（公共卫生服务协会）、各个博物馆等。本部门也需要与荷兰外的社会组织、公益组织进行互动交流，具体包括CRN（北美华人彩虹联盟）、PFlag（同性恋亲友会）、台湾同志咨询热线协会，以及其他的类似组织。组织的活动时需要兼顾趣味性、有趣和教育意义。活动的焦点话题是、社会融入和健康问题。
Out & Abroad是一个社群，通过线上和线下活动联结了众多的在荷华人同志。为了了解社群动态，我们想组建一个专门的团队，做类似于 “社群管理员” 和 “版主” 的工作。本团队的主要任务是维护线上社群的健康运行。本团队也会与广义上的在荷华人同志社群交流。本团队需要收集社群中的反馈，以便我们对活动和文章进行优化。另外，本团队也需要与志愿者队伍进行沟通，并参与我们的管理群讨论。
我们的社群团队需要寻找焦点话题，在微信公众平台和其他社交媒体平台上发表可以引起讨论的文章。不过，大多数时候，团队的主要任务是追踪社群对一些热点问题的看法和态度，以便于设计和优化我们组织的活动。焦点话题可以是新闻或者其他的同志相关议题。这项工作的目的是鼓励和促进讨论，增强管理群和社交平台的活跃性。讨论的内容可以用于文章的创作，例如创作以科普、辟谣、破除误区为目标的文章。
我们想寻求几个有意愿组建Out & Abroad社会行动团队的人，工作焦点是LGBT+社会行动（Activism）。从我们的经验来看，LGBT+社会行动很难，但是这是我们想鼓励的事业，因为它能促进我们作为组织和社群的进步和发展。我们想成就更好的自己，也想促进他人对LGBT社群的理解和接纳。
报名方式：请填写下面的申请表，并扫描报名表尾部的二维码，加入本次招募的微信群组。我们将会在4月20日13:00在鹿特丹举行线下面试。如果你无法参加面试，请在微信添加 vino24_8，或向 [email protected] 发送邮件联系我们。
