EWB-UK is trying to catalyse a wider movement in the engineering community and in society in general towards international development - and successful media coverage is key to spreading the word. EWB-UK's publicity currently encompasses public events, journals, trade magazines, student, local and national newspapers and radio.

You can apply to join the Publicity Team and you might also be interested in becoming the Communications Co-ordinator.

Some of the exciting publicity activities that you could be undertaking include:

• Photography Competition & Exhibitions: You would help to organise and manage EWB-UK’s photography competition and exhibitions.  A selection of photographs from our volunteers overseas will be selected through a competition, in order to be shown in exhibitions at the university branches, as well as venues across the country to highlight EWB-UK’s work
• Newspapers, magazines and journals: We often have approaches for stories about our organisation and our work in the UK and overseas. You will help to oversee and manage the liaison with these relevant publications to ensure some excellent material is published
• Video stories: As EWB-UK moves more into using videos to allow people to understand our work, you may be able to use video in publicising our work on external websites and through partner organisations

Publicity Team 

The team as a whole is responsible for EWB-UK raising awareness about its activities to ensure that all the programmes of EWB-UK receive the attention they need and deserve. Team members may undertake a variety of roles throughout the year, some examples of which are given below. The average time commitment is about 1-2 hours per week on average but may be more on some occasions.

EWB-UK’s Publicity and Media team try to:

• Ensure that EWB-UK has a strong and consistent image throughout the UK and overseas backed up by a striking range of promotional material that effectively imparts the key messages about us and our work.
• Work with all forms of media to further promote our activities at local, national and international level.

Examples of work undertaken include:

• Developing eye-catching promotional materials such as posters, leaflets, online media or videos that successfully promote EWB-UK within all its branches and outside.
• Working with different programmes within EWB-UK to help turn some of their messages and outputs into effective marketing material.
• Liaising with the press and writing and publicising articles in a range of media about EWB-UK.
• Looking into exciting new Publicity and Media opportunities and using your creativity to develop innovative ideas for raising our profile.

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