Citizens of Cyber

Charity registered in Scotland SC051140

Citizens of Cyber was founded by dedicated Cyber Security lecturers with decades of experience within the Digital and Cyber Security Sector.

The primary goal for Citizens of Cyber is to provide links across the cyber community and to engage with everyone, including children, parents, vulnerable adults and professionals, to help keep everyone safe online. The charity is continually working towards ensuring knowledge, resources and education are available to everyone.


Current opportunities

We are Citizens of Cyber, our mission is to bring together cyber-specialists and connect individuals and professional bodies, to support and assist in cyber-education and the development of safer online practices, aimed at people of all ages and knowledge levels. We wish to use our professional network to keep up to date with the activities of hackers and online scammers and produce resources for use by schools, groups, and individuals, whether online, offline, or through face-to-face sessions. We want cyber-users to know how to protect themselves and others online, whilst being confident and making the best of their online interactions, and still remain within the confines of the law while doing so. In addition, we aim to ensure that support is available for anyone affected by negative interactions online and to help anyone who finds themselves in cyber-related difficulties. Our volunteers are at the heart of what we do and it is important for us to ensure we provide the best working environment possible. Volunteers work remotely during hours they set, our team focuses on ensuring clear deliverables are identified and agreed to allow volunteers to manage their own time. Meetings with the whole team will be held regularly to make sure everyone knows each other and work together. Duties and Responsibilities would be, and not restricted to the following: - To establish volunteering requirements of Citizens of Cyber, in discussions with CEO; - To create, in conjunction with CEO, volunteer role descriptions; - To recruit volunteers into agreed roles, in conjunction with CEO; - To ensure PVG clearance for potential volunteers; - To run volunteers’ meetings, to gather views, to deliver generic training and to agree activities; - To create, in conjunction with CEO, a risk assessment for each volunteer role; - To create and deliver 1:1 induction, start-up training and ongoing training and refreshers to individual volunteers, incorporating CEO and/or others at need; - To deliver public sessions as one of the volunteers; - To meet for 1:1 sessions with CEO, to ensure ongoing fitness for role and smooth delivery of role, with SMART targets set as appropriate; - To manage volunteers and assist them with resources required for a successful completion of projects/tasks; - To ensure the resolution of potential conflicts and come to agreement - To deliver and finalise website contents, in agreement with CEO and volunteers; - To maintain and administer the website; - To generate and revise webpages; and - To propose ideas on strategy improvement, content and training delivery. - You will be speaking/teaching/ working with young children and vulnerable adults as a volunteer of citizens of cyber.

We are Citizens of Cyber, our mission is to bring together cyber-specialists and connect individuals and professional bodies, to support and assist in cyber-education and the development of safer online practices, aimed at people of all ages and knowledge levels. We wish to use our professional network to keep up to date with the activities of hackers and online scammers and produce resources for use by schools, groups, and individuals, whether online, offline, or through face-to-face sessions. We want cyber-users to know how to protect themselves and others online, whilst being confident and making the best of their online interactions, and still remain within the confines of the law while doing so. In addition, we aim to ensure that support is available for anyone affected by negative interactions online and to help anyone who finds themselves in cyber-related difficulties. Our volunteers are at the heart of what we do and it is important for us to ensure we provide the best working environment possible. Volunteers work remotely during hours they set, our team focuses on ensuring clear deliverables are identified and agreed to allow volunteers to manage their own time. Meetings with the whole team will be held regularly to make sure everyone knows each other and work together. Duties and Responsibilities would be, and not restricted to: * Managing diaries and organising meetings and appointments, often controlling access to the CEO; * Plan and prepare for meetings on behalf of the CEO and Volunteer Co-ordinator, setting agendas, co- ordinating/preparing briefings, preparing presentations and attending meetings as appropriate; * Attend and take minutes and action notes at meetings and deal with any follow up action; * Support specific initiatives, activities, projects and research commissioned by the CEO and Volunteer Co-ordinator; * Typing, compiling and preparing reports, presentations and correspondence; and * Liaising with staff, volunteers, suppliers and clients;

We are Citizens of Cyber, our mission is to bring together cyber-specialists and connect individuals and professional bodies, to support and assist in cyber-education and the development of safer online practices, aimed at people of all ages and knowledge levels. We wish to use our professional network to keep up to date with the activities of hackers and online scammers and produce resources for use by schools, groups, and individuals, whether online, offline, or through face-to-face sessions. We want cyber-users to know how to protect themselves and others online, whilst being confident and making the best of their online interactions, and still remain within the confines of the law while doing so. In addition, we aim to ensure that support is available for anyone affected by negative interactions online and to help anyone who finds themselves in cyber-related difficulties. Our volunteers are at the heart of what we do and it is important for us to ensure we provide the best working environment possible. Volunteers work remotely during hours they set, our team focuses on ensuring clear deliverables are identified and agreed to allow volunteers to manage their own time. Meetings with the whole team will be held regularly to make sure everyone knows each other and work together. Duties and Responsibilities would be, and not restricted to: • Establish business requirements of Citizens of Cyber, in discussions with CEO; • Meet for 1:1 sessions with CEO, to ensure on agreement on strategy, brand awareness and other business objectives; • Assist in increasing brand awareness of charity through social media and offline means of marketing; • Attend and represent the charity at different events, conferences, both online and offline; • Initiate new partnerships, collaborations and search for new clients; • Maintain and develop relationships with a wide range of existing and new clients and stakeholders; • Create and improve proposals for our existing and new clients; • Seek out funding and investment opportunities for the charity; • Report back to the CEO and Board on a regular basis; • You will be speaking/teaching/ working with young children and vulnerable adults as a volunteer of citizens of cyber.

We are Citizens of Cyber, our mission is to bring together cyber-specialists and connect individuals and professional bodies, to support and assist in cyber-education and the development of safer online practices, aimed at people of all ages and knowledge levels. We wish to use our professional network to keep up to date with the activities of hackers and online scammers and produce resources for use by schools, groups, and individuals, whether online, offline, or through face-to-face sessions. We want cyber-users to know how to protect themselves and others online, whilst being confident and making the best of their online interactions, and still remain within the confines of the law while doing so. In addition, we aim to ensure that support is available for anyone affected by negative interactions online and to help anyone who finds themselves in cyber-related difficulties. Our volunteers are at the heart of what we do and it is important for us to ensure we provide the best working environment possible. Volunteers work remotely during hours they set, our team focuses on ensuring clear deliverables are identified and agreed to allow volunteers to manage their own time. Meetings with the whole team will be held regularly to make sure everyone knows each other and work together. Role includes but is not limited too: Identify areas/resources from Citizens of Cyber which require further research/development; Identify potential sources of funding and prepare funding applications; Identify new audiences which would benefit from the resources offered by Citizens of Cyber; Assist in the production of materials to aid in reaching out to new audiences for Citizens of Cyber; Validate information/materials produced by Citizens of Cyber for accuracy and reliability through the use of multiple trustworthy sources; Research and advise Citizens of Cyber volunteers on trustworthy sources of information; Advise Citizens of Cyber volunteers on how to identify trustworthy information and how to best validate information used in their roles; You will be speaking/teaching/ working with young children and vulnerable adults as a volunteer of Citizens of Cyber.