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Become a Member or Renew – support our work for homebirth
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One Year Membership – $20
For women, families and those generally interested in homebirth

Professional One Year Membership - $40
For homebirth midwives, doulas, birth photographers and other professionals - this gives you access to our Homebirth Services directory (click for list of inclusions)

Your membership funds go towards keeping our organisation afloat and helping us with our advocacy campaigns. 

- Membership benefits include:
- Contributing directly towards increasing access to homebirth in Australia
- Voting rights at our Annual General Meeting
- List your business on our Homebirth Services Directory (Professional Membership)

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Please forward membership enquiries to [email protected]

Are you super passionate about homebirth? We have plenty of opportunities for you to get involved, whether it is helping with a particular advocacy campaign or with the day-to-day running of our organisation.
Please contact [email protected] for more info.

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Volunteer Positions Available

Advertising Coordinator

The Advertising Coordinator is not a formal office bearing role, however the Advertising Coordinator sources vital funds for HBA. The Advertising Coordinator is responsible for advertising on our website, in our monthly newsletter and sponsored social media posts by coordinating information with the website coordinator.
Duties include: 

• Develop and maintain our advertising guide- including pricing.
• Find and contact business that may be suitable for advertising with HBAhowever the Advertising Coordinator sources vital funds for HBA
• Liaise with Businesses to coordinate advertising: get invoices drawn up, collect all materials in the correct sizes to upload to site. Approve ad copy. 
• Maintain spreadsheet of current advertisers; Ensure businesses get opportunity to renew
• Manage sponsored social media posts. 
• Coordinate social media shout outs by sending advertisers information to social media coordinator 
• Attend all monthly committee meetings
• Find sponsors for annual homebirth conference (includes gathering offerings for conference attendees in the form of discount codes, etc)
• Keep in regular contact and liaise with committee via HBA committee facebook group, monthly meeting or email

Communications Coordinator

The Communications Coordinator is not a formal office bearing role but it is essential to the overall functioning of HBA’s online presence. 
Duties include:

• Liaising with the Coordinator and committee to plan the newsletter topics 
• Liaising with Memberships Coordinator to ensure list of members in MailChimp is current 
• Create a monthly member newsletter following each meeting using MAILCHIMP. Source or write all content. Always seek permission of the woman/photographer before sharing birth images 
• Follow closely all news relating to Homebirth to ensure we are current and share homebirth in the media information with editor as necessary 
• Submit all newsletters to HBA Coordinator for approval.
• Attend monthly committee meetings 
• 1 year commitment to role 
• Keep in regular contact and liaise with committee via HBA committee facebook group, monthly meeting or email 
• Agreement to transition incoming committee member to new role over a number of months if required

Reporting Requirements 

• Report on activity at each monthly committee meeting (via zoom)

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Qualities and skills required: 

• Good communication and interpersonal skills - Well organised and an eye for detail -
• Great teamwork -
• Ability to write in a compelling way, to keep the audience engaged -
• Good computer skills and an artistic flair for colour coordination and layout -
• Passion for homebirth

​Time commitment required:

• The role of Communications Coordinator requires an estimated commitment of 3-4 hours per month.

Community Engagement

This is a new role within the HBA committee. It is not a formal office bearing role, but it is essential to keeping the organisation and the community up to date with important happenings related to homebirth in Australia.

Duties include:

• Scheduling monthly Zoom calls with local homebirth groups 
• Liaising with HBA committee regarding any issues that are raised at monthly community Zoom meetings
• Answer questions of the general homebirth community to the best of your ability and refer to another member of the committee if required
• Maintain good relationships with administrators of all local homebirth groups to facilitate communication pathways
• 1 year commitment to role 
• Keep in regular contact and liaise with committee via HBA committee facebook group, monthly meeting or email 
• Agreement to transition incoming committee member to new role over a number of months if required

Reporting Requirements 

• Report on activity at each monthly committee meeting (via zoom)

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Qualities and skills required: 

• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Great teamwork 
• Passion for homebirth

​Time commitment required:

• The role of Community Engagement requires an estimated commitment of 3-4 hours per month.

For more information on any of these roles or to apply, please email [email protected]