Are you a talented story-teller looking for an opportunity to showcase your gifts whilst supporting a good cause?

Then come join our team, we are looking for someone who’s keen to meet different people and tell their stories.

Mandala Community Counselling is a volunteer-run counselling service that provides high quality, low-cost counselling to those most in need people within the Sydney area. You will be supporting us by telling the stories of our trainees and counsellors. This is a role with lots of creative freedom and autonomy.

Your background

Studies in Journalism, Media or English Literature is preferred

Volunteering with Mandala

If you are excited by the thought of being part of an established non-profit that helps disadvantaged people make meaningful progress in their lives, you’re at the right place.

When hiring we do not discriminate by any unlawful means including, but not limited to, race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or veteran status.

Do you align with our values?

We think these are the most important characteristics for all Mandala volunteers. Is this you?

• You love to get things done and you especially like solving problems.
• You have empathy with your customers and colleagues
• You are well organized with an eye for detail. Please keep your cover letter under 250 words and highlight one achievement you're most proud of.
• You’re self-motivated. You’ll be reporting to a part time volunteer and be comfortable being judged on your results.
• You are clear, detailed and thoughtful in expressing yourself whether you’re in an interview, sending an email or writing an article. We are a small group of people with a range of different backgrounds, experience and time commitments. Clear and detailed communication is essential in this environment. When dealing with external parties, you will need to ask questions and provide answers in ways that anyone can understand.
• You are inquisitive and have a natural curiosity about things. You are someone who wants to peel back the onion and find out more about how and why things happen.
• You are persistent. If you run into a roadblock you will try another approach.
• You love helping people and pride yourself on your interaction with others

Essential Characteristics of this role

• You enjoy meeting and talking to new people
• You are independent, extremely self-disciplined and able to prioritise your work efficiently
• You are also creative, expressive with your opinions and interested in the idea of building a community

Time Commitment

It is anticipated that the initial project would be 1-4 hours per week over 2 months but there is a lot of flexibility about how and when the work is carried out. We hope to have this project start by Dec 2025 and completed by beginning of Feb 2026 - it should fit well with a student wanting to do voluntary work over their summer holidays.

Responsibilities

Create content (video & written) related to our training course Our prospective counsellors have to complete an intensive theory training course that provides comprehensive grounding in psychodynamic theory and application, combined with practical skills training. After this they can progress to a 2 year practical training program where they work with 2 clients whilst under Mandala supervision.

Your job will be to help us tell the stories of the people involved in this training (trainees, counsellors, trainers and supervisors) so that prospective counsellors better understand the Mandala program and what it can do for them. To this end we need a journalist to help us build a library of material telling these stories and answering common questions. Our marketing team will use this content to better promote our training course.