Safe Online Volunteer Advisers

About this opportunity

We are looking to recruit Safe Online Volunteer Advisers, with a background in IT, in Hampshire to join our team.

Our Safe Online volunteers deliver home visits and community talks to give practical, easy-to-understand online safety advice, helping people to protect themselves from scams, fraud, identify theft and other threats to their digital security.

Talks – We provide a PowerPoint presentation that can be used to deliver these talks or you can do without if equipment at a venue is not available to display. Please note we do not provide laptops, you would be required to use your own.

Home Visits – You are there to give guidance to the client about how to keep themselves save online but you are not required to touch their device or carry out demonstrations on it.

Clients include victims of cyber enabled crime, or residents who are over 60 or disabled (over 18).

Volunteers are asked to commit to a minimum of one day per week to work for the charity. Appointments are booked in by the admin team to deliver home visits or talks to community groups.

You may on occasion be asked to work other days/times to cover requests but this would be optional and agreed in advance.

Please note that we find that talks are more in demand than the home visits.

We provide training to new volunteers and this will be delivered by other members of the volunteers team as well as the Police Cyber Crime team. You will also be required to attend team meetings approximately 4 times per year (some may be attended via Teams) in Eastleigh.

All staff and volunteers are required to complete Police Vetting. You cannot start in the role until vetting has been successfully completed.

Travel expenses are paid.

To find out more information please register your interest today.

Skills

Volunteers are required to have a background in IT and able to effectively deliver easy to follow guidance to clients. Patience and strong communication skills are essential.

Volunteers also need to be confident in delivering talks to large community groups and utilising PowerPoint presentations.

About Blue Lamp Trust

A Hampshire based charity with a mission to improve home, online and on road safety. Based at Police & Fire HQ, Eastleigh we deliver two charity schemes; Safe Home and Safe Online. These support vulnerable people who have been, or are at risk of being, a victim of crime in the home or online. We offer practical support and advice through home visits and community engagement activities. Our trading subsidiary BLT Driver Training delivers a range of driver training programmes to improve road safety, the proceeds of which are gifted to the charity to fund it’s activities. All staff and volunteers are required to complete police vetting (not DBS)

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