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Our Focus

Bringing together a group of people to talk about the good, the bad, the technical and
business side of tech. Tech Lounges wants to empower others who wish to scale their
passion, entrepreneurship and career

Our Volunteer Positions

• Social Media and Marketing Support Volunteer

• UI Design Support Volunteer

• Events Planning: Community Outreach (3 positions)

Social Media and Marketing Support Volunteer (10-50%)

The marketing team determines the marketing, communication and social engagement needs for local programs. The team will create and execute a marketing plan to inform and educate the local community about TechLounges.The volunteer will support TechLounges’ marketing and media needs, including conducting marketing research; maintaining and developing social media accounts; aiding in audience development activities; monitoring and managing in-bound inquiries on social channels. Schedule is flexible and negotiable.TechLounges serves a diverse community aiming to include tech enthusiast with different cultural and educational background.

Responsibilities include:

- Define marketing goals and strategies;
- Develop a marketing plan;
- Canvas creation for social media groups
- Newsletter creation and management
- Maintain Social Media Post
- Community Engagement
- Content Creation and Management
- Relationship Management

Nice to have:

- Attention to detail, thoroughness, diligence, and reliability
- Ability to work independently and remotely
- Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
- Solid computer and IT skills
- Passionate about making a difference in the community
- Expertise in facilitating social engagement
- Team working savvy
- Writing and communication skills

Benefits:

- Gain an understanding of local community needs and how they are being addressed
- Improving your communication skills
- Great personal satisfaction, since you have the opportunity to impact the community

Details:

SCHEDULE: Weekdays
TIME COMMITMENT: A few hours per week
RECURRENCE: Team meetings recurring weekly

UI Design & Web Development Support Volunteer  (10-50%)

The volunteer(s) will support TechLounges in developing strategy for UI and UX optimization. Schedule is flexible and negotiable.
TechLounges serves a diverse community aiming to include tech enthusiast with different cultural and educational backgroundd educational backgrounds.

Responsibilities include:

- Maintain and update TechLounges website
- Flyer and Graphic designing
- Collaborate with social media and marketing team (i.e in canvas creation)
- Understand and react to user analytics and metrics
- A/B test and experiment to optimize user flows
- Get user feedback

Nice to have:

- Team working savyy
- Creative thinker
- Present and defend your design decisions
- Hands-on experience creating wireframes, prototypes, storyboards, user flows, etc.
- Effectively communicate your interaction ideas using any of these methods
- Be a great team player, experienced in working with agile teams

Benefits:

- Gain an understanding of local community needs and how they are being addressed
- Improving your communication skills
- Great personal satisfaction, since you have the opportunity to impact the community

Details:

SCHEDULE: Weekdays
TIME COMMITMENT: A few hours per week
RECURRENCE: Team meetings recurring weekly

Events Planning: Community Outreach (3 positions) (10-50%)

The volunteer(s) will support TechLounges in planning the community events: Networking Apero, Techytalks, seasonal events (i.e. Christmas, summer bbq).TechLounges serves a diverse community aiming to include tech enthusiast with different cultural and educational backgrounds.

Responsibilities include:

- Expertise in facilitating event planning and organization
- Managing the event on social media, such as scheduling on Facebook, Meetup, Instagram
- Communicating with staff and organizing partners.
- Create effective advertisements for each event.
- Anticipating and planning for possible different event scenarios
- Venue Management
- Event Promotion
- Event Coordination
- Speaker Management
- In light of an inclusion atmosphere, propose new event topics and ideas

Nice to have:

- Team working savyy
- Creative thinker
- Present and defend your design decisions
- Hands-on experience creating wireframes, prototypes, storyboards, user flows, etc.
- Effectively communicate your interaction ideas using any of these methods
- Be a great team player, experienced in working with agile teams

Benefits:

- Team working savyv
- Understanding the complex needs of different events and diverse audiences (Pillars: Career, Start-up and Woman in Tech)
- Good writing and communication skills
- Attention to detail, thoroughness, diligence, and reliability
- Ability to work independently and remotely
- Ability to prioritize and meet dead-lines

Details:

SCHEDULE: Weekdays
TIME COMMITMENT: A few hours per week
RECURRENCE: Team meetings recurring weekly

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Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how Tech Lounges uses the information you provide to us when using our website, joining our mailing list, using our social media group or attending our events.We are committed to ensuring your privacy is protected.Any personally identifiable information we collect about you will be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Tech Lounges may change this policy from time to time by updating this page.You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
When changes are made we will maintain a record of these changes and when they happened which you can access.Information We CollectWe may collect the following information:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Job Title
- Employment status
- Company
- Demographic information such as - postcode, preferences and interests
- Clothing size
- Dietary requirements
- Photographs of you
- Video footage of you
- Public usernames of your social media accountsWhat we do with this information ?- We require this information to provide you with an engaging tech community, great events and in pursuit of our mission to make your local community a better place to live and work in technology.In particular for the following reasons:
- To provide you with access to our events and our online community
- To let you know about upcoming events and activities which are taking place in the tech community
- To let you know about ways you can help us to make your local community a better place to live and work in technology
- To help us better understand our community
- To allow us to contact you about our servicesWe will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties.We use third party software and services to manage your data, provide our service, our events and pursue our mission to make your local community a better place to live and work in technology.The data held about you on those services is done so in accordance with our privacy policy and the privacy policy of the service provider.Data Removal
- Where personally identifiable data has not been used in the provision of our services for a period of five years or more, this data will be anonymized or destroyed.Security
- We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.How We Use Cookies
- A cookie is an identifier, unique to you which we store in your browser and which we can access. We use this to provide a better website experience and to understand which pages you are visiting on our website. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.Managing The Data We Hold About YouMailing ListSubscribers to our mailing list can unsubscribe at any time using the link in our emails to you or you can do so by emailing info@techlounges.com and asking to be unsubscribed.Subject Access Requests :
- You may ask to be sent all information we hold about you. You can do so by emailing info@techlounges.com and asking to be sent all information we hold about you. We will provide this information within one month.Right to be forgotten
- You may ask that we remove information we hold about you. You can do so by emailing info@techlounges.com and asking that we remove information held about you. We will complete this within one month.Photography And Videography
- At some of our events we will commission a photographer or videographer to document the event. The photos and video footage they collect is owned by Tech Basel, and is used for marketing and information purposes.We may use these photos and video footage on our website, at our events and we may provide this to 3rd parties, such as media organisations, in pursuit of our mission to make your local community a better place to live and work in technology.This might include, for example, imagery of an event used in a news article promoting Switzerland as a place to do business in technology.At any event where we have commissioned a photographer or videographer to document the event, attendees will have opportunity to give or deny consent to being personally identifiable in the images and videos we publish before entering the event. Attendees decisions in this matter will not affect their access to the event. Attendees may change their consent at any time by emailing info@techlounges.com, providing a photograph of their face, and asking to not be included in imagery or video we publish.Questions, Complaints Or Concerns
- If you have any questions, complaints or concerns we will be happy and eager to discuss them with you - please contact info@techlounges.com