Thank you for your interest in volunteering with the Centre for Policy Development (CPD).
The CPD is a small outfit with limited resources. The contribution of interns and volunteers to making our work possible is always appreciated.
Because we value the time and energy of our volunteers, we want to make their experience with the CPD as rewarding as possible. To help us do this, we need to match the skills and interests of potential volunteers with the work that needs to be done.
If you are interested in volunteering send us an email addressing the following questions.
- Which of the following would you like to help out with? – Editing, Fundraising, Publicity, web design, graphic design, event organising, research assistance, administration or something else?
- What you are interested in, and what you are good at?
- How many hours or days a week are you available?
- When are you able to start and are you able to come in and work from the office?
- Are there any specific policy areas that you are interested in?
If there are tasks to be done that match your interests, we will get in touch and arrange a time for you to come in. Please make sure you include your name and contact details when you email us at admin@cpd.org.au
Below are a couple of specific things we need help with.
HELP US BUILD CPD2.0
The Centre for Policy Development, which originated from an online policy portal, is very interested in expanding the circle of citizens involved in the research and development of policy ideas. But our website, quite frankly, needs help. We’d like your ideas on how to improve it here. Even more, we’d like to put your web skills to work on our wishlist of interesting thinktank web projects (and to help us overcome some of the tetchy problems with the core site that are making it harder for us to start experimenting):
- Got ideas on how to make our site’s frontpage more appealing and encourage participation by supporters? We’d love your help.
- Help us design a skin for a prototype collaborative research project on how we can transition to a sustainable economy
- Do you have the experience or skills to help make collaborative policy research possible?
- This one’s for the tech geeks: any expertise in Drupal CMS communicating well with a CRM to allow us to customise our communication with supporters who want to do more than just read our emails? We’d love to pick your brain.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER NEEDED
Making good ideas & design matter when the luck runs out
We need a graphic designer who can help with our publication of an election agenda setting book, More than Luck: ideas Australia needs now. If you care about the future of our planet and society that are creative and tech-savvy then you can to contribute their skills and join us in our efforts to make good ideas matter this election – and beyond.
Volunteering can be either at out Sydney office, based inside the University of Technology, Ultimo or remotely.