Would you like to learn new skills, boost your wellbeing and make a difference in 2025? Canal & River Trust have volunteering opportunities available.

Volunteer posts available:
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N/A
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Registered Charity number:
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1146792
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Volunteer Provider:
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Canal & River Trust
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Date Opportunity posted:
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11th February 2025
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Closing date:
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Ongoing |
Opportunity description:
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Our Supporter volunteers ensure that the day to day nuts and bolts of the waterways happen be that monitoring activities on the towpath or that the running of teams and the necessary processes happen in the background. This can be anything from working with our Social Media Team to assisting with location and filming for productions. Our Supporting Volunteers also support our teams within our offices and even on the Towpath conducting audits.
This role is based mainly from home. Join our friendly IT Security team you will have the chance to help us ensure we are compliant with all relevant cyber essential protocols and PCI DSS requirements. This is a fantastic opportunity to meet new people all across the Trust who work in different departments. You will have the chance to liaise directly with these teams and help them be the best they can be in terms of compliance. This role would be very well suited to someone with an IT/IT Security background.
We are looking for an individual who can help by:
• Supporting the IT security function in its compliance role
• Supporting data collection and process review
• Monitoring and interrogating IT systems
• Principally volunteering from home
• Sharing your knowledge of compliance and audit-related work
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Training:
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All volunteers will receive relevant training for the opportunity presented.
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Skills and development:
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- Supporting with administration
- Supporting with data collection
- Creating content on social media
- Taking photos for promotion and celebration
- This role can potentially be done from home.
- When you register as a volunteer, we will ask you about any unspent convictions which you need to declare and risk assess these as needs be.
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Further information:
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For further information, or to apply, please visit here.
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Don't forget to keep your volunteering profile up to date with all of the great work that you have done, so that your hours of commitment can be recognised in your Higher Education Achievement Report.