Open Positions

Never a shortage of things to do and so we are looking for a few additional volunteers to help us make this another great year. None of the functions below are new, but we've grown and need the extra help. Preference is given to volunteers who have worked on Help-Portrait events in a prior year.


Coordinator (1 x Melbourne role)
Works closely with the location Project Manager supporting them in all aspects of planning for and delivering of an event. This role is ideally suited to someone who has the ability to participate in Help-Portrait activities during business hours and some after hours. We rely heavily on Google Apps and Zoho CRM for the running of the events. It is important the volunteer is relatively tech savy and/or keen to learn.


Event time - This person is kept busy the days leading up to and over the weekend of the event.
Post event - Approx 5 hours wrap up tasks to ensure we are equipped to do it better in 2012.
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Hair and Makeup Lead (1 x Melbourne & 1 Sydney role)
Responsible for recruitment and training of appropriate Hair and Makeup team.
Ideally would have participated in a 2010 Help-Portrait event within the Hair and Makeup team. We rely heavily on Google Apps and Zoho CRM for the running of the events. It is important the volunteer is relatively tech savy and/or keen to learn.

Event time - This person is kept busy the days leading up to and over the weekend of the event.

Post event - Approx 3 hours wrap up tasks to ensure we are equipped to do it better in 2012.

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Online Content Coordinator (1 x Sydney role)

In the lead up to the event this role is important to getting the word out about our activities. The person must have a strong personal (or business) online presence and be capable of producing a plan and executing against it with our website (done in Blogger), Facebook and Twitter account.
Pre event - This person is kept busy in the 7 weeks leading up to the event approx 3-4 hours per week.
Event time - This person is kept busy the weekend of the event.

Post event - Approx 3 hours wrap up tasks to ensure we are equipped to do it better in 2012.

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Graphic Designer
While the majority of our media assets are not needed to be developed from scratch, we require someone to support the team in preparing various graphical content exclusively for online usage.

Pre event - Help us update images with 2011 sponsors as well as other refresh activities.

Event time - This person would ideally the be Guest Journey Board Coorinator. 

Post event - Approx 3 hours wrap up tasks to ensure we are equipped to do it better in 2012.

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