▷ [High Salary] Volunteer Team – Story Week 2025
6 days ago
Overview
Volunteer with us for Story Week 2025
Do you have a passion for writing and poetry – and a love of live literary events? We’re seeking volunteers to help us stage our 2025 Story Week program and the Australian Poetry Slam (APS) Finals (16 to 26 October 2025).
Working in a friendly and supportive environment, our volunteers gain new and valuable skills, get a behind-the-scenes look at delivering a literary event, meet like-minded people – and, most of all, have an enjoyable and rewarding experience.
Volunteers will have the opportunity to watch a wide variety of Story Week events for free whilst undertaking duties, and will receive a brand new Word Travels t-shirt to wear whilst representing the organisation and keep as a memento after the festival.
We are recruiting volunteers across various roles (including ushering for events, customer service, artist liaison, and production support) to join our team in Sydney during Story Week. We are looking for volunteers to commit to a minimum of two shifts over the period of 17 to 26 October 2025. We also have limited volunteer opportunities for the Queensland (16 October) APS Finals.
To apply, please complete the form at the link below and remember to email us your CV and a paragraph or two about why you’d love to volunteer and be part of Story Week 2025.
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with us. We look forward to having you on our volunteer team.
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More information about Story Week 2025 Volunteering:
The Story Week and Australian Poetry Slam Finals Volunteer roles are voluntary/unpaid. These roles will further develop your event facilitation skills while giving you the opportunity to experience a professional work environment.
Volunteers assist with:
- customer service
- artist liaison and support
- production and operations support
- supervising the APS merchandise stand
- marketing and administration.
Key programs:
- Australian Poetry Slam Youth
- Australian Poetry Slam National Championship
- International Story Week – a week of spoken word events
Criteria:
- Enthusiastic and positive outlook
- A basic understanding of live events
- An interest in writing and/or performance
- A pleasant and professional manner
- High level organisational and communication skills
- Exposure to front of house or festival environments
- Demonstrated capacity to work as part of a team as well as unsupervised
- Excellent time management skills
Location: Onsite across Sydney
To apply, please complete the form at the link below and remember to email us your CV and a paragraph or two about why you’d love to volunteer and be part of Story Week 2025. Applications will be processed as received.
Volunteer application form
To learn more about what we do, please visit www.wordtravels.org.au and www.australianpoetryslam.com.
Any questions to: volunteerwithus@wordtravels.org.au with "Volunteer with Story Week 2025" in the subject line.
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