Social Media & Marketing Volunteer

Clear Blue Sea is seeking a creative, mission-driven Social Media & Marketing Volunteer to help us amplify our message and grow our digital community in support of our mission to remove plastic pollution from our oceans. Key Responsibilities Research & Benchmarking: Analyze social media strategies from aligned nonprofits, eco-tech orgs, and sustainability influencers to inform CBSea’s strategy. Platform Management: Design and manage our presence across platforms including Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, ensuring brand consistency and clarity of mission. Content Creation: Develop and schedule engaging, mission-aligned content (images, videos, reels, short-form educational posts) about: Ocean plastic pollution and its global impact Our marine robot "FRED" (Floating Robot for Eliminating Debris) Advocacy campaigns and real-time project progress Campaign Strategy: Support development of long-term digital campaigns for crowdfunding, community engagement, or calls to action. Audience Engagement: Build and interact with our online community-reply to comments, spotlight community members, and promote events. Partnership Outreach: Help connect with like-minded organizations and influencers in the Blue Tech and sustainability space to increase visibility and collaboration. Performance Review: Track key social media metrics and suggest improvements to optimize reach, engagement, and conversions. Team Collaboration: Participate in virtual team meetings with CBSea leadership to share updates and brainstorm future strategy. Preferred Skills & Experience Passion for ocean conservation and community-driven climate action Comfort using tools like Canva, Buffer or Hootsuite etc Experience with short-form video editing tools (e.g., CapCut, InShot, Adobe Express etc) Familiarity with AI tools for content generation or analytics (e.g., ChatGPT, Adobe Firefly, or Lumen5 etc) Strong writing skills-able to translate complex environmental topics into compelling, accessible narratives Some graphic design experience (Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP, or similar) Experience using Google Workspace for strategy documentation Basic understanding of SEO and hashtag strategy is a plus Time Commitment Flexible volunteer hours (5-10 hours/week recommended) at our location as well as virtual. Regular check-ins (biweekly or monthly meetings) Minimum 3-month commitment preferred Why Volunteer with CBSea? CLEAR BLUE SEA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in San Diego, CA with a mission to cleanse the oceans of plastic pollution. Clear Blue Sea’s innovative marine debris removal system is an unmanned, solar-powered Floating Robot for Eliminating Debris (FRED). Three small-scale FRED prototypes have been built and tested in Mission Bay and we're focused on our Micro FRED - an autonomous remote monitoring platform. Our FRED projects have involved over 200 student interns as we are dedicated to training and mentoring younger generations in methods and innovations needed to increase awareness of ocean plastics and solutions for ocean cleanup and conservancy. You’ll be part of a passionate team working to protect our oceans. Gain experience in digital strategy, nonprofit communications, and environmental advocacy-all while helping bring a powerful innovation (FRED) to life.