VolunteerWiki on creating Volunteer Role Descriptions can be read here: Creating Volunteer Role Descriptions (PDF) What is a role description? Once you’ve talked to everyone, you might like to write up these ideas into role descriptions. A ‘role’ describes the title of the volunteer, such as ‘newsletter contributor’. A ‘task’, or set of tasks’, are activities […]
The key starting point to setting up a new volunteer programme is to remind yourself why your organisation wants to involve volunteers in the first place and to identify what exactly you want to achieve by involving volunteers. A clear vision and understanding as to how volunteers can contribute to your organisation will help determine
Be Prepared! Just like another well-known volunteer organisation with that slogan, your organisation needs to be prepared. It needs to know why it wants to involve volunteers in its work, how volunteer positions fit and be ready to receive willing volunteers when contacted. The benefits of being organised and ready for volunteers are plentiful: It
