Painting Kit Preparation and Packaging for tactile books for blind children

Painting Kit Preparation and Packaging for tactile books for blind children

Posted for Living Paintings

Posted by Volunteer North Hampshire

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THE ROLE: You will be joining a really friendly, supportive team of volunteers and staff in a highly rewarding role, helping to make books accessible to blind and visually impaired children. This is a varied and interesting hands-on role, preparing and packaging painting kits ready to send out to volunteers that work from home.

MAIN DUTIES INCLUDE

• gathering together equipment, paints and tactile picture sheets
• packaging and posting packs ready for volunteers at home
• using the franking machine to create accurate postage labels
• Using IT systems including excel as necessary to carry out role
• Making phone calls to volunteer painters at home. 

COMMITMENT REQUIRED Volunteer sessions are usually 3+ hours, with slots available Monday to Thursday, 1pm to 4.30pm, at our office in Kingsclere between Newbury and Basingstoke. We request one reference for this role.

What skills do I need?

This role would particularly suit a multi skilled person who is 

• Good eye for detail and able to follow precise instructions.

• Someone looking for a hands-on role. 

• Preferably creative capacity.

• Preferably IT literate. 

• You will be happy to learn the various manual tasks in the book production process and will have full training and support to use the various production room machinery.

• You will need to be comfortable working independently at times, but support and organisation of tasks will be provided by the Production Room Co-ordinator.