Marketing Volunteer Job Description- Their Duties, And Salary

Who are Marketing Volunteers?

Marketing volunteers are in charge of bringing out the different elements of the work efficiently, match and harmonize attractively with the activities. They give monthly updates regarding the products and services along with the distribution and release of the projects and outcomes to gain a wide reach. Marketing Volunteers are responsible for the development of a company’s marketing strategies and execute them differently. Their goal is to understand the company’s products, recognize and understand the customer’s needs and accordingly work on them to satisfy the customers. They promote all the products and services on behalf of the company and execute in such a way that the company can gain profit. Let’s see the Marketing Volunteer Job Description.

Job Description

The volunteers are provided some work which they have to work on in such a way that it fulfills the goal of the company, as well satisfies the need of the customers. They need to assist the marketing team and help them out in various sectors.

The roles of the volunteers are:

• Know the mission- what to do, how to handle the strategies given by the company.
• Giving training to the newcomers. 
• Supervising the works of newcomers.  Checking whether they are doing the work properly and, according to the marketing strategy of the company.
• Scheduling the important meeting with the clients.
• Trying to arrange the meetings with higher authorities in order to present the ideas and thoughts regarding the new marketing strategies and get it approved.
• The volunteer should build up strong connections with the other companies as well as in the social world where they can promote and bring out creativity.
• They should attend events on behalf of the company.
• They have to attend workshops as well as organize the workshops so that they can promote their activities in such a way that other people would also get to know about the company.
• Keep a targeted audience according to the marketing strategy.
• Keep track of social media and get to know more about the customer preferences and their views which will help to build up an idea and a concept on what kind of product or services the customers are looking for.
• Comparing the results of progress with the other competitive companies.
• Make sure to achieve the goal.
• Try to finish the work on time given by the higher authorities.
• Keep an urgent meeting when a problem arises and try to find a solution as soon as possible.

What Are The Qualifications Required To Become A Marketing Volunteer?

The companies always look for marketing volunteers who are dedicated to their work and have the capability to achieve the goals.

The qualifications required to become a volunteer are:

• Should have a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing or Business Administration to work as a marketing volunteer. Most of the company looks for master’s degree because they have more knowledge and experience regarding the work. 
• The volunteer must have public speaking skills.
• Should have leadership quality.
• Know how to convince others.
• Can solve the problems on time.
• Good communication skills and writing skills.
• Capability to know and learn new things.
• Have the mindset to achieve the goal.
• Having a clear concept of the marketing strategy.
• Should have the knowledge, like which audience they should target, how to meet their needs, how to convince them about the quality of products and services provided by the company, and how to change the quality of products services according to the change of taste and preferences of the customer.
• Should have creativity.
• Ability to work in teams.
• Have the potential to collaborate with other different teams.
• Knows how to cooperate with others.

What Are The Process Of Selection?

 The volunteers will go through two types of interviews to get selected. Interviews are required to know the volunteer better, whether they are capable to do the job, do they have the skills to complete the work on time, and how much creativity they have by which it can give benefit their working experiences as well as to the company.

The interviews will be:

• GD (Group Discussion) – There will be two higher authorities from the company and the other volunteers will be there who have applied for the marketing volunteer position. A topic will be provided as well as a few minutes to think about. As soon as the time ends, the group discussion will start where each and everyone will share their point of view. The higher authorities will look at how the volunteers are managing the chaos and how well they are listening and letting others share their opinion. The one who handles the situation well will get selected.
• PI (Personal Interview) – The volunteers who get selected from the group interviews finally get to sit in a personal interview. In a personal interview, the authorities check your resume. They ask you questions regarding your hobbies, strength, and weakness. They even see how well you can speak and handle all the tricky questions. Once the volunteer gets selected he or she will get an offer letter to join the company.

Skills Required 

The skills that a volunteer should have are:

• Communication Skills – giving clear advice and instructions to others, making the ideas and thoughts crystal and clear will help a lot.
• Writing Skills
• Proofreading
• Promoting Skills – The more the volunteer promote the products, the better will be the effect it has on the company
• Analyzing the marketing trends.
• Research Skills
• Can coordinate with the clients, HR.
• Identifying customer needs, whether the references have changed or not.
• Understand the latest trend and work on it.
• Taking the initiative to complete the work.
• Having enough patience. Sometimes the work doesn’t go well according to the plans or the opposite client doesn’t approve the work, during this time the volunteer should have enough patience in order to handle the work professionally.
• Can handle the problems when things are not going in the planned way.
• Creating new strategies. This will bring more ideas and ways to achieve the goal.
• Taking up the responsibility when the other team members are absent.
• Completing the task before the deadline.
• Can adjust to any new environment.
• Should have passion for your work.
• Sending mails on time.
• Should know how to organize meetings and workshops.
• Staying focused on the current projects.
• Knowing how to work with others.
• Should have leadership skills.
• Can do the work in the given period of time.
• Show more interest and abilities to take more new upcoming projects in the future.
• Working upon the creative ideas.

What Are The Duties Of The Volunteer?

There are lots of duties that a volunteer should do to get more experience. 

The duties are:

• Communicating with the higher authorities.
• Completing the work on time and submitting it to the authorities.
• Keeping all the records at the end of the day.
• Keeping contact with the clients.
• Reaching the company on time.
• Taking responsibility when the teammate is not there.
• Informing HR about all the activities going on.
• Taking initiative in organizing workshops.
• Checking mails, all the important mails should be checked on time.
• Checking social media to look into new trends.
• Cooperating with the team members.
• Organizing a meeting once a day in order to give reports and share ideas and thoughts regarding the improvement of the product or services of the company if required.
• Doing deep research regarding the new upcoming marketing trend.
• Analyzing the marketing strategies.
• Setting up a new marketing strategy and discussing it with the team members. If the team members are okay with the plan then getting it approved by the higher authorities.
• Noting down the points during the meeting.
• Keeping a meeting with the clients in order to know their needs and informing them about the changes.
• If any problem occurs, try to solve it with the team members or else try to seek help from the HR of the company.
• Get important papers signed by the higher authorities.
•  Analyzing the results at the end of the day.
• Doing more marketing research in order to know what the competitive market is up to and thinking of what more benefits can the company provide in the market in order to gain profit by increasing the sales.
• Motivating the team members to work hard and achieve the goals of the company.
• Attend the webinars and workshops on the behalf of the company and gather more information.

Salary

The volunteer gets stipends and some amount of money is given to them to cover their expenses. They do not get a specified amount of money. It varies from company to company.

The Marketing Volunteer does all jobs that marketers do. If they are good enough during the volunteering period then they might get a chance to work for an extended period of time with a specific amount of salary or they might get permanently selected. It all depends upon the work they have done and as well their results.