Summer Internship

About the role

Position type: Volunteer
Hours: Minimum of 10, 7 hour days between June and September 2023
Team: Operations
Location: Torch House Market Harborough, some scope for home working.

Torch is offering a summer internship within the comms team. This is an exciting
opportunity to experience life working in a Christian charity whilst helping us to
raise awareness and build meaningful relationships with supporters.
Torch serves blind and partially sighted people in the UK and around the world
through the provision of accessible Bibles, Christian books, support and advice over
the phone, local groups, sight loss friendly church, holidays and on line events.
You will have the opportunity to shadow various members of the Torch staff,
working alongside the Supporter Development Coordinator you will work on a
variety of comms campaigns to raise awareness of Torch’s free Pathway Bible
offer, Sight Loss Friendly Church free training and other services for those who are
blind and partially sighted.
What is the commitment?
There is plenty of flexibility but we are looking for a commitment of a minimum of
10 days between June and September.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• To carry our research tasks
• To support in preparing and managing databases
• To create email communications
• To create social media contact
• To make follow up calls
• Other tasks as agreed with the Supporter Development Coordinator

Skills and requirements:

• Must be a committed and practising Christian fully aligned with Torch’s values
• Good written and oral communications skills
• Knowledge and experience of using the internet for research and ability to use standard IT programmes such as Word, Excel etc

Benefits to you from the work experience offered:

• Boost your CV
• Opportunity to experience being part of a Christian charitable organisations
• Develop written and oral communication skills
• Work on a specific communication project with measurable results
• Help support blind and partially sighted individuals in the UK and around the world
• One to one internship tailored to you with opportunities to shadow other staff members.

Equal opportunities
We don’t want finance to be a barrier to you participating in the summer
internship so we are prepared to cover some expenses in return for your time.
Travel costs covered up to £15 per day
Lunch provided for working days