Team Publicity Coordinator
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Team Publicity Coordinator
The Team Publicity Coordinator is responsible for coordinating local media coverage of AFS programs, events, and participants within the Team.
Responsible to:
Time required:
- 2 hours/week
Competencies Required:
Training:
- peer to peer mentoring available
- many online resources
Works with:
- Staff
- Regional and National hosting and sending staff
- Marketing and Communications Department
- Volunteer
- Team Leadership
- local volunteers and participants
Responsibilities:
- Work with all chapter volunteers and Team members to provide publicity for student and/or host family recruitment efforts and enable all volunteers to realize that AFS publicity is everyone's business
- Publicize Team events and activities through placements in local media
- Publicize Host Family Recognition Month each March
- Provide follow-up to nationally placed Public Service Announcements (PSA's)
- Publicize Team fundraising activities
- Feature AFS volunteers during National Volunteer Recognition Week each April
- Pitch student, host family, and volunteer feature story ideas to selected media
- Work with other volunteers as appropriate to publicize community informational meetings
- Contact public and private local schools, especially in person and/or by phone, language teachers and counselors
- Keep current information in local schools, with language teachers and counseling offices
- Encourage all Team members to have AFS materials (always have current materials available) with them at all times and to remember to distribute it at dentists, doctors, etc., offices when one visits
- Promote and set up speaking engagements in civic, church and PTA(O)s organizations
- Find yahoo groups, etc., that can profit from receiving AFS info and send current AFS information as it is generated. (Example www.teachers.net)
