Volunteering for THSC is an outstanding way to give of your time to serve the homeschool community of Texas. THSC is a non-profit organization, and your time and assistance is greatly valued.
Volunteering is also an excellent way to enhance your esumé. THSC has many opportunities for part-time volunteers to serve. Click on the job titles listed below for job descriptions and more information on how you can help.
Communications Team
Help THSC maintain a virtual presence that is professional, easy to find, up to date and contains accurate information for Texas homeschool families.
Events Team
Perhaps you are a business professional turned stay-at-home mom who wants to keep your skills sharp, a high school/college-aged student who wants to build a strong resumé, or are already in the business community and feel a call to serve others.
Front Office Team
Live in or near the Lubbock area? Enjoy working with other people to accomplish a task? Want to give back to the homeschool community? Then volunteering at the THSC office may be just the thing for you!
Leadership Team
Marketing Team
The THSC Marketing Team strategically crafts the message that THSC presents to public. We create content that goes in our magazines, emails, advertisements, banners, and website. Hours are flexible and during regular business hours.
PAC Team
The THSC Political Action Committee (PAC) Team exposes corrupt judges, acts as a watchdog against questionable politicians, and creates home school legal policy. Hours are flexible and during regular business hours.
Communications Team: Volunteer Statistical Analysis Assistant/E-Stats Analyst
Ever wanted to learn the ins and outs of analyzing e-communications? Do you have experience in math or science? Are you familiar with Microsoft Excel?
Responsibilities of e-stats analyst:
- Read various Excel Worksheets
- Compute click rates and provide summations
- Enter Data into an Excel Spreadsheet
- Extrapolate Potential Website Trends
- Identify content types based on demographic appeal, age, location and content
- Assigning a content type identifier to each link within specified E-communications
- Quantify click rates for given content types
- Graph and plot results
Qualifications of e-stats analyst:
- Experience or working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Familiar with THSC e-publications particularly weekly e-newsletters
- Enjoy interesting articles related to homeschooling
- Enjoy math and math related skills
- Understand how to graph and plot data points
- Able to calculate sums & percentages, multiply, divide and subtract
- Interest in learning about demographics, non-parametric tests and the wilcoxon matched pairs test to apply to the data provided
Information THSC hopes to collect:
- What content is appealing to reading so they follow through with clicks to full articles?
- Are there key words and phrases that appeal to users?
- How many e-readers go to the website?
- What are the click paths of various types of visitors/readers?
- What content do people want to see more of in our e-publications?
- Can we offer readers more choices in their e-communications subscriptions?
Persons interested in volunteering on the THSC Communications Team as either a web content volunteer or a social media assistant, please contact communications@thsc.org.
Events Team: THSC Booth Volunteers
Volunteer and help man the THSC booth at a conference near you!
THSC attends several homeschool book fairs/conferences throughout the state, and we are always looking for volunteers who are interested in and excel at direct sales and who desire to support and promote THSC.
Volunteers will gain valuable experience as they work with trained THSC staff members.
Volunteer responsibilities include:
- Sales, marketing and PR for the Texas Home School Coalition
- Manning the THSC booth
- Distributing materials to attendees
- Selling memberships and merchandise
- Answering questions about THSC and home schooling in general
- Volunteers will be expected to wear professional attire.
- Volunteers must be willing to work the entire conference.
Qualifications:
- Some experience in marketing and sales is preferred but not required
- Direct experience with home schooling is also a plus – either as a homeschool student or a homeschool parent
Persons interested in volunteering at a THSC booth should contact staff@thsc.org.
Check out our calendar of events to locate the conference nearest you!
Events Team: Pre-Event Administration
Most assignments require 1 to 2 hours per week to work on special projects assigned by the Events Department. Responsibilities:
- Updating, revising, editing, or designing forms
- Familiarity using Microsoft Word, Excel, PDF programs
- Performing general administrative duties
Qualifications:
- Innovative
- Keen eye for detail
- Take-charge attitude
- Excellent communication skills
- Writing and proofreading skills
- Ability to work with several departments
- Strong computer skills
Persons interested in volunteering for pre-event administration should email events@thsc.org.
Please detail your work experience, availability, and which area you would be most interested in participating (Pre-Event Administration or Project Leadership).
Events Team: Project Leadership for Banners, T-shirts, Flyers, Programs and more
Most assignments require 1 to 2 hours per week to work on special projects assigned by the Events Department.
Responsibilities:
- Working within a budget
- Requesting quotes from multiple vendors
- Placing and following up on orders and delivery
- Shopping for thank you gifts, bags, t-shirts, cards, etc.
Qualifications:
- Innovative
- Keen eye for detail
- Take-charge attitude
- Excellent communication skills
- Writing and proofreading skills
- Ability to work with several departments
- Strong computer skills
Persons interested in volunteering for pre-event administration should email events@thsc.org.
Please detail your work experience, availability, and which area you would be most interested in participating (Pre-Event Administration or Project Leadership).
Front Office Team: Front Office Volunteer
Periodically throughout the year THSC has volunteer opportunities at our local office. Volunteers help with a variety of tasks to assist our staff when preparing for major events such as our State Convention. Volunteers also assist in stuffing envelopes and preparing large mailings, or they may assist our staff in making phone calls to members.
*Note: Office volunteers will be notified of volunteer opportunities one to two weeks in advance.
Volunteer responsibilities include:
- Making phone calls
- Preparing large mailings by stuffing envelopes, etc.
- Packing supplies and preparing for events
- Various other office duties
Qualifications:
- Friendly and able to work well with others
- Clear and friendly phone voice
- Able to understand and follow directions
Persons interested in volunteering please contact staff@thsc.org.
Leadership Team: Leader Liaison Volunteer Assistant
The THSC Leader Liaison is the direct link between THSC and leaders of home school support organizations in Texas. Qualified volunteers will assist the Leader Liaison in the following ways:
Responsibilities:
- Research online articles and newsletters for interesting topics concerning leadership.
- Assist with maintaining an accurate database of support groups and cooperatives.
- Assist with maintaining an accurate regional directory.
- Conduct Internet searches for new groups.
- Conduct yearly updates of the THSC leaders’ guide.
- Maintain professional appearance and behavior while representing THSC.
- Attend a bi-weekly phone meeting with the Leader Liaison.
- Maintain open and frequent communication with the Leader Liaison.
Qualifications:
- Must have served in support group leadership for at least two years.
- Must provide two letters of recommendation from members of the support group you lead.
- Must have a flexible schedule.
- Knowledge of newsletter publication, Excel, and Word is beneficial but not required.
Persons interested in volunteering as an assistant to the THSC leader liaison should contact leaders@thsc.org.
Marketing Team Volunteer
Responsibilities
- Managing Facebook ad campaigns and budgets
- Copywriting Facebook ads
- Copywriting social media posts
- Strategizing social media campaigns
- Brainstorming branding and messaging
- Weekly marketing team meeting
- 2-4 hours per week
Qualifications
- Professionalism
- Good written communication skills
- Experience with Facebook and/or Twitter
- Experience with Google Docs
- Eye for design
- Willingness to learn, be corrected, and work on a team
- Previous marketing experience is a plus
Benefits
- Excellent resume builder, especially with other non-profits
- Develop personal relationships and receive mentoring from industry professionals
- Unprecedented business experience
- Reach experience: Quarterly publications reach 55,000 households every quarter
- Reach experience: Email blasts reach over 20,000 emails
- Most importantly, you’ll be enabling THSC to fight for parental and home schooling rights all across Texas
Interested applicants should send resumes to: marketingdirector@thsc.org
PAC Team Volunteer
Responsibilities
- Candidate research (ethics filings, supported policies)
- Grassroots activities coordination
- Writing press releases
- Facebook updates
- Policy analysis
- Policy creation
- Data entry
- Weekly PAC team meeting
- 2-4 hours per week
Qualifications
- Age 16 or older
- Professionalism
- Political savvy
- Good written communication skills
- Experience with Google Docs
- Willingness to learn, be corrected, and work on a team
- Previous political experience is a plus
Benefits
- Qualifies as volunteer hours needed on college and scholarship applications
- Excellent resume builder, especially with other public policy organizations
- Develop personal relationships and receive mentoring from experienced grassroot activists
- Unprecedented political experience with real campaigns and real budgets
- Reach experience: Texas has 300,000 home school students. The PAC Team protects every one of them.
- Most importantly, you’ll be enabling THSC to fight for parental and home schooling rights all across Texas
Interested applicants should send resumes to: pacdirector@thsc.org
Sales Team: Advertising Volunteer
We are currently looking for a volunteer to assist in the Advertising Department with the details of advertising placements for convention sponsors. This is not a sales position! For more information about this position, contact sales@thsc.org.
Social Media Team: Volunteer Social Media Assistant
Does sharing and chatting with other homeschoolers on the internet sound like fun? The Social media team is looking for motivated volunteers to help with the THSC Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or Google+.
Responsibilities:
- Engage with other homeschoolers online
- Assist in building and maintaining THSC’s social media network
- Be the eyes and ears of the THSC brand online
- Help review user-generated comments and posts
- Help monitor discussion of THSC in social media
- Assist with social media campaigns
Qualifications:
- Experience with Facebook or Twitter or Google+
- Good written communication skills
- Knowledge of Internet and social media etiquette
- Professionalism
Benefits
- Receive training and mentoring from experienced web professionals
- Creative outlet
- Excellent resume builder, especially with other non-profits
- Develop personal relationships
- Unprecedented business experience
- Most importantly, you’ll be enabling THSC to fight for parental and home schooling rights all across Texas
Send resumés to socialmedia@thsc.org
Web Team: Volunteer Web Content Assistant
Responsibilities of website volunteer:
- Edit existing pages and create new ones
- Work with the layout and flow of the site
- Be a watchdog for any errors in grammar or content
Qualifications of website content assistants:
- Experience with HTML; ideally, some experience publishing and/or trouble-shooting raw HTML markup
- High-level website or HTML experience is not required as the job is primarily editing and updating the content of the website, not the design and graphics.
- Strong attention to detail
- Boldness in making suggestions of “what would work better”
- Flexible schedule
Benefits
- Receive training and mentoring from experienced web professionals
- Excellent resume builder, especially with other non-profits
- Develop personal relationships
- Unprecedented business experience
- Most importantly, you’ll be enabling THSC to fight for parental and home schooling rights all across Texas
Send resumés to webmanager@thsc.org
Web Team: Volunteer Web Design Assistant
Responsibilities:
- Create web page designs and graphics
- Work with the layout and flow of the website
Qualifications:
- Experience with web graphics; ideally, some design experience and a desire to learn
- Photoshop experience preferred over other graphics programs
- Willingness to learn and abide by professional design standards
- Strong attention to design detail
- Boldness in making suggestions of “what would work better”
- Flexible schedule
Benefits
- Receive training and mentoring from experienced web professionals
- Creative outlet
- Excellent resume builder, especially with other non-profits
- Develop personal relationships
- Unprecedented business experience
- Most importantly, you’ll be enabling THSC to fight for parental and home schooling rights all across Texas
Send resumés to webmanager@thsc.org
