Join Our Team — We’re Recruiting for Key Leadership Roles!

Are you passionate about protecting our oceans, waves, and beaches? Do you have skills in organization, finances, communications—or a drive to tackle cigarette litter? The Bogue Banks Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation is seeking a Marketing Coordinator and a Hold Onto Your Butts Campaign Coordinator to join our Executive Committee and help make a lasting impact in our community.

These are volunteer leadership positions with voting rights on the Executive Committee. You’ll be part of a dedicated team working to protect and enjoy our local coastline while developing valuable skills and connections.

Marketing Coordinator

About the Role:
The Marketing Coordinator is our storyteller, sharing the chapter’s work through social media, email, and our website to engage volunteers, attract supporters, and amplify our impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create engaging content for social media, newsletters, and the website.
• Maintain a photo repository and source imagery for chapter use.
• Promote volunteer opportunities in coordination with the Volunteer Coordinator.
• Respond to media inquiries and connect them with the Chair and Vice Chair.

Ideal Qualities: Strong writing and editing skills, creative mindset, tech-savvy, organized, and collaborative.

Time Commitment: ~2–3 hrs/week.

Hold Onto Your Butts Campaign Coordinator

About the Role:
The Hold Onto Your Butts Campaign Coordinator leads our efforts to reduce cigarette litter, the most commonly collected item on beaches worldwide. You’ll organize education and outreach activities, install and maintain cigarette butt receptacles, and mobilize volunteers to collect data that drives change.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate cigarette litter awareness campaigns in the community.
• Organize placement and upkeep of cigarette butt receptacles.
• Track data on cigarette litter collected and share findings with the Executive Committee.
• Partner with local businesses, municipalities, and volunteers to promote solutions.
• Advocate for policies and practices that prevent cigarette litter.

Ideal Qualities: Passionate about environmental issues, proactive, comfortable engaging the public, and skilled at coordinating projects and partnerships.

Time Commitment: ~2-3 hrs/week.

Photo Caption: The Bogue Banks Chapter's Executive Committee Members are responsible for organizing and executing opportunities, campaigns and programs that allow Crystal Coast communities to engage in Surfrider’s mission.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a passionate team dedicated to protecting our local environment.
• Build leadership, organizational, and communication skills.
• Connect with like-minded individuals who share your vision for a healthy coast.

Interested?
Email chair@boguebanks.surfrider.org to learn more and apply. Together, we can protect what we love and create lasting change in the Bogue Banks community.