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Responsibilities:

Tabling for Seattle Against Slavery/Federal Way Coalition Against Trafficking at local community events, trainings and conferences! Volunteers interface with the public to help educate the community about human trafficking and the work that SAS is doing in the area.

In order to represent SAS/FWCAT at community events,  completing the SAS New Volunteer Training is required. Volunteers need reliable transportation to transport outreach materials.

Desired Skills:

• Comfortable speaking with diverse groups of people across the community
• Ability to speak to SAS’s mission and the programs that we offer
• Friendly, approachable attitude
• Ability to attend local community events in Seattle or the greater King County area

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Help us capture our ongoing work! We are looking for volunteers who are willing to donate their photography or videography skills to help us document our events, fundraisers, and outreach efforts.

Volunteers are needed on a short-term basis for specific events. If you are willing to donate a day or evening to SAS to share your photography skills, please contact us to learn about our upcoming events!

Desired Skills:

• Experience with professional event photography/videography
• Ability to attend a Seattle Against Slavery event in Seattle or the greater King County area

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We are always on the look out for volunteers who have design skills to help us create printed and digital resources such as posters, brochures, one-pagers, event announcement flyers and great presentations. For our social media presence, we need volunteers who can create graphic content for social media.

Graphic design volunteers will be given our brand assets like colors, fonts, and logos to maintain a cohesive branding. Opportunities for graphic design can be project-based or ongoing.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with PowerPoint, Word, and other Office software
• Creative approaches to applying pre-defined branding to new projects
• Experience working with clients to understand project needs and solicit feedback
• Photoshop & Illustrator experience, or equivalent software
• Responsiveness and strong collaboration skills over email

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Want to learn what it takes to put on a big event for a community? Join one of our event planning teams to help put on one of Washington’s largest charity 5Ks!

Work with others to help set planning schedules, find and engage local community partners, book venues and ensure every attendee has a great time. Volunteers doing event planning can commit to short term help on a specific event or help us plan larger events over the course of several months.

Desired Skills:

• Ability to follow through with commitments
• Willingness to reach out to local community partners and engage new potential partners
• Strong sense of task ownership
• Collaborative attitude working with others

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Help us spread our message and reach more communities. There are many opportunities for one-time or irregular volunteering through SAS. These opportunities may include event support, tabling, postering, office/administrative assistance, school outreach, and more.

Desired Skills:

• Ability to commit and follow through with an assignment or task
• Clear and responsive communication via email
• Positive attitude
• Other skills dependent on task, project, or event

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Write for our blog! Utilize your unique voice and perspective to encourage critical thinking and engagement around issues related to exploitation. Work with SAS staff to choose topics that interest you most and work independently to write articles that will be shared on our website.

 

Do you want to highlight anti-trafficking efforts being done at your school? Do you want to share your experience of participating in one of SAS’ presentations or programs? Are you interested in encouraging youth engagement and empowerment, examining cultural norms, or researching violence prevention success stories?  Come write for us!

Desired Skills:

• Creativity and passion
• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines
• Clear and responsive communication via email
• Previous writing experience encouraged, but not necessary!

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Looking to organize with other youth? Our Youth Leadership Board meets twice a month to plan community events and advocacy projects, as well as act as allies for each other, our friends, and our communities as we work to end human trafficking.

 

Youth Leaders come from all around King County to create, coordinate, and implement one project of their choosing each quarter. This is a unique opportunity for high school students who are committed and ready to be engaged in activism, advocacy, and community organizing.

Desired Skills:

• Responsiveness, commitment, follow-through, and strong communication
• Creativity and passion
• Desire to collaborate with others, brainstorm, and hear different perspectives
• Ability to attend two meetings a month (in person or video call)

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Volunteering with SAS on the tech team offers many different areas of work and we need a variety of skill sets! We are a remote-first engineering team. Learn more about out technology platform by reading about our technology program or visiting our marketing site.

Our biggest need right now for software engineer volunteers is code contributions to our web crawling projects. We use web crawlers to identify potential victims of online sex trafficking as well as to measure the online market for trafficked sex. Our web crawling code base is well tested Python with many different areas of contribution including monitoring, DRYing up existing code and improving quality, as well as adding additional web crawlers to pull from sites where we know exploitation and trafficking happen.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with web crawling
• Python experience
• Desire to write stable code with automated tests
• Remote collaboration skills such as comfort with using Slack as a primary means of communication
• Ability to do thorough and kind code reviews

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Help improve this very website! We need volunteers to help us make improvements to this website such as style bug fixes, additional features, and cross-browser compatibility improvements.

Make a visible impact for our organization!

Desired Skills:

• Advanced WordPress experience
• Familiarity with Advanced Custom Fields
• Experience with build tools such as npm & gulp
• Proficient with Git and using GitHub
• Ability to collaborate remotely or in person at our Seattle office

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Desired Skills:

• Ability to build data dashboard in Tableau Online
• Experience creating data visualizations
• Python experience
• Ability to connect over video call with our data science team
• Comfortable using Git

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Responsibilities:

Desired Skills:

• Experience with design work for a software platform or app
• Collaboration skills working with project managers, developers, and other designers
• Skills with a design asset or mockup software such as Zeplin, Sketch, or Figma (we use Figma)
• Ability to translate customer feedback into actionable design changes

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