Volunteer: Website Design

About the role

We seek a web designer to create structure and design options for our nonprofit website. The volunteer should assess and incorporate our goals and needs and consider our key audiences. The designer should also assess our technical capabilities.

Project deliverables

The project's deliverable is a draft of architecture and design concepts that we can easily share with a web developer volunteer or a member of our team who will use the guide to create our new site.

Timeline and process

Our work will take place over multiple meetings in six to nine weeks.

• In our first meeting, the volunteer should interview us about our desired features, our web capabilities, and our technical expertise. Then, they'll synthesize the information into a requirements briefing.
• We'll engage in various check-ins, where a member or members of our team will provide feedback.
• The volunteer will audit our current site to create a draft of site architecture and design options including wireframes, site structure, and other visual elements.

Platform and context

We are using Squarespace as our website hosting platform. We have already thought about and are prepared to brief you about our current website platform, budget restrictions for the build, our branding collaterals and norms, and information about our stakeholder groups and target audiences. We've also compiled some photos and have some language developed that we will share with you.

Our mission

Brick Road Life Skills Mission: We guide young people through life's winding roads by connecting them with credible mentors who have already traveled those paths. Through hands-on learning and real-world experiences, we help vulnerable and at-risk youth navigate obstacles, discover their strengths, and build the confidence to chart their own successful journeys.

Why this matters

A non-profit's mission is only as funded as it is visible. We have developed a robust 12-week life skills framework ready to deploy, but we lack the digital platform to build long-term donor relations and secure sustainable funding. Your website design expertise will bridge that gap. By building a clean, modern, and intuitive Squarespace site, you will directly enable us to attract corporate/foundation grants, engage individual donors, and recruit industry partners.