Become a MIN Champion

Become a MIN Champion

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of mothers facing post-separation abuse? Do you have a strong network and a desire to use your skills for a powerful cause?

Context for Ambassador Role

In MIN’s Overall Aims and Objectives 2023 -2030, is:

“to be a trusted and influential advocate to ensure the survivor voice is heard at a local and national level in addressing the root causes of post-relationship abuse for mums”.

The MIN Ambassador is a key in helping to drive this aim forward. The role forms part of a wider strategy with several strands including building strategic national partnerships/alliances, delivering training to target audiences and ensuring that MIN has a voice at the table at the critical points where it can affect the most change.  MIN will also reference it’s Sheffield-based service offering as a pilot, proving both evidence of need and a model to address it.

The Ambassador role will be a remote/hybrid role and can be located anywhere (most likely within the UK).  It will be a mostly public facing role and involve using the volunteer’s existing skill set, expertise and networks to educate, raise awareness and influence change towards addressing the root causes of post-separation emotional abuse. It is expected that much of the work will take place on LinkedIn.

We ask that you commit around 1-2 hours/month towards the role – more if this works for the volunteer. The time commitment is variable and thus works well for those who are time poor yet wish to do high impact volunteering in the limited time they do have at their disposal.

About Mums In Need (MIN): 

A dynamic and growing registered charity informed by lived experience that provides a unique service for mothers experiencing coercive control after separation from an abusive partner. Service provision is currently Sheffield-based, with a growing national education/awareness platform to address the root cause of post-separation emotional abuse. 

KEY ACTIVITIES

Some of the key activities are outlined below. However, please note that this is a framework – the role will evolve over time and look different for each Ambassador.  

Developing MIN’s voice as expert/advocate:

• 1:1 discussions with key people in the domestic violence field (and beyond where relevant); 

• participating in consultations; 

• developing public speaking and training programme; 

• thought leadership and opinion pieces; 

• joining relevant initiatives; 

• inviting others to join MIN-led initiatives (e.g., MIN’s strategic partnerships and Ambassadors programme); 

• leveraging (and continuing to build) MIN’s evidence base for the need and MIN’s local pilot model to address the issue.

Some useful areas of interest and abilities for this volunteer role are:

• Natural networker

• Able to join the strategic dots

• Feel at home on LinkedIn (you may already use this professionally)

• Confident talking to people, on- and offline, 1:1 and in front of an audience

• You feel passionately about the issue of domestic abuse

• You show up consistently

Having some of the following is a bonus too (but don’t worry if you don’t have them):

• Delivering presentations and/or training

• Know about (have you worked in? do you have contacts here?) any of these services: justice (legal, police, family courts), social work, education, mental health.

• Human Resources/people management/Diversity and Inclusion in a corporate setting

Looked after by:

Laura Riley (CEO); nominated Trustee(s) – Annie Moon

Other key MIN people that you may come into contact with:

Partnerships Sub Group (a lot of contact)

Sara Ford – Marketing and Media Lead

Ambassador Team volunteers