Pre-Announcement: Initial Volunteer Positions

[Kieran]

Hi all, I would love to volunteer any time I have and for any thing at all that helps the sitez it's been a. Life's ever in many ways!

 

[peersjr]

While applications aren't yet open, as we need to formalise a full application process – it's likely the first volunteer positions available will be:

Major Positions - Daily Requirements

• *2x Project & Volunteer Managers: To help manage volunteers, upcoming tasks, deal with correspondence etc. These will be involved roles which look to support the general maintenance and updates required for MedBud each day. These roles are intended to find people whom can help maintain dedicated aspects of MedBud, finding what each person is best managing/dealing with individually - and elevating them to greater future positions of authority within the organisation. Further places expected to follow.

In the long-term we expect to have dedicated 'volunteer', 'project' and 'PR' managers - off-loading various aspects of my current personal commitments to free up my time for general site development.

Minor Positions - An Hour or Two, a Few Times a Week

• 2x Forum Moderators - to help manage the community here, to decide upon and enforce general rules, to promote good community spirit.
• *2x Video Review Moderators - to help keep YouTube reviews updated. This requires little more than data-entry skills.
• *†3x Image Editors - to help manage our email submissions for medication images, and scour the web for others. This requires some level of proficiency in image editing, though tutorials will be provided on our exact handling.
• *2x Strain/Listings Editors - to help populate information on listings in the main database. This mostly requires data entry skills, but also some familiarity with very basic HTML; and also a strong grounding in the basic of cannabis, UK medical law etc.

* Will require signing a volunteer contract with MedBud covering data handling/privacy, legal requirements, non-compete and general work/contractor related regulations in the UK. This document has largely been supplied as a template by our solicitor, whom feels volunteers need to be under proper contract to protect the organisation overall.

† If not already possessed, MedBud is willing fund a £10pm Adobe Photoshop prescription for those that require. Previous experience and software familiarity required.

For minor roles, where people have the time, we'll allow applications to multiple positions.

Otherwise, I'll be approaching a specific individual whom used to be involved with a patient organisation to ask them whether they're willing/able to take on a more full-time volunteer role. While I won't allude to whom this person is, I think they'd be a very strong match for helping push MedBud forward overall. If they decline, I may approach others. After a few years several individuals in the community have stood out to me overall. I personally need backup to attend meetings and such when I cannot.

We intend to have a general philosophy with taking on volunteers that each position requires mandatory backup, some redundancy for when any particular volunteer is unavailable, and for another to always pick-up the slack. For me personally, not having backup has been a huge weight over the past couple of years. No-one can be expected to be at full throttle at all times.

There will be dedicated staff forums which all volunteers are granted access to in general, to discuss future developments overall.

This post will be updated as we move closer to launching the application process.

I'm available for the more major roles if necessary?

 

[JRMY420]

Hello all I’m interested in getting involved as a Strain/Listings Editor when applications open.

I’ve been a cannabis user for around 10 years, and on prescribed medical cannabis for about 8 months now, so I’ve seen both sides of the fence as a “normal” consumer and as a patient trying to navigate the system.

My background is in healthcare (urgent and emergency care). I’ve also spent time in related research roles, so I’m accustomed to handling data carefully, following protocols, and communicating clearly with a range of people.

Over the past couple of years I’ve been teaching myself to code, with hands-on experience working with databases and HTML, so the more data-entry / database-heavy side of MedBud shouldn’t be an issue. If relevant, I’m also comfortable working in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and a little C++.

The Strain/Listings Editor role really appeals to me as a nice intersection of data, patient usefulness, and cannabis knowledge; as well as my developing code and programming experience.

I care a lot about accuracy, accessibility, and destigmatisation in this space. I’d love to help MedBud keep growing and doing what they’re doing so well!

Happy to chat more or answer any questions!

Thanks very much for reading, and for the opportunity; I look forward to hearing back and getting to know the community!

 

[Kieran]

Hello all I’m interested in getting involved as a Strain/Listings Editor when applications open.

I’ve been a cannabis user for around 15 years now cannabis trying to navigate the system.



so MedBud shouldn’t be an issue.

The Strain/Listings Editor role really appeals to me as a nice intersection of data, patient usefulness, and cannabis knowledge

I care a lot about accuracy, accessibility, and destigmatisation in this space. I’d love to help MedBud keep growing and doing what they’re doing so well!

Happy to chat more or answer any questions!

 

[PeaceLoveBear]

Hello. I am happy to volunteer. I am amazing at finding out what people's skill sets are, how they best learn, strategies, negotiation, conflict resolution, motivation, team building. Just basic people management.

I am also happy to be assigned anything that can help that I am capable of doing. I am on disability and actively looking to do things that feel good and help.