Volunteer Management - Recruiting Volunteers

Build Effective Role Descriptions To Find The Best Volunteers

What you'll learn

Identify why your organisation needs volunteers and how they will positively impact your mission.

Understand who the ideal volunteer is for each potential role.

Identify your various volunteer roles and learn how to write a Volunteer Role Description.

Understand where and how to use your Volunteer Role Descriptions effectively for successful volunteer recruitment.

Requirements

This course is appropriate for anyone who wants to or is working with volunteers.

Description

In this course we will look at the very beginning of your Volunteer Program: Why do you need volunteers? And what can they do to help your organisation deliver on it's mission?You don't need to be a paid Volunteer Manager or Volunteer Administrator to complete this course. In fact it's built for people with no experience whatsoever in volunteer management. However, you will likely still find some useful tips in this course if you are within the first 2 years of your career. In this course I will teach you how to analyse your organisation so you can determine how volunteers can best help you. This is important so that everyone understands why you need volunteers, and later, so that your volunteers can feel satisfied that their time and contributions really are making a difference. Then we'll look at some of the limitations your organisation might have in recruiting volunteers and what kinds of volunteers will most benefit your organisation. This will ensure that the volunteers you find will be the best fit. Then we'll construct a Volunteer Role Description using the form and template included in the course. You can go through this process as many times as you need to build all the Role Descriptions you need for your program. Finally, we'll look at what you can do with your new Volunteer Role Descriptions. How you can break them into useful pieces and how you can use them to recruit volunteers from a variety of different sources.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Analyse Your Organisation

Lecture 2 Analyse Your Organisation: What is it's Mission?

Lecture 3 Why Do You Want Volunteers?

Lecture 4 Why Will Volunteers Make A Difference To Your Organisation?

Section 3: What Is The Point Of Volunteer Role Descriptions?

Lecture 5 How can Volunteer Role Descriptions Be Useful?

Lecture 6 What Is A Role Description?

Lecture 7 Why Do You Need A Role Description?

Lecture 8 Who Are Role Descriptions For?

Section 4: Preparing to Write Role Descriptions

Lecture 9 Introduction - Why Is It Useful To Know What You Want?

Lecture 10 Start Your Wish List

Lecture 11 Break Your List Down

Lecture 12 Identify Your Roles

Lecture 13 How Many Roles Should You Have?

Lecture 14 What Are The Limitations Of Your Organisation?

Lecture 15 What Is Your Organisation Looking For In Your Volunteers?

Section 5: Writing Role Descriptions - Role Description Template

Lecture 16 Using The Template

Section 6: Volunteer Recruitment

Lecture 17 How To Use Your Role Descriptions to Recruit Volunteers

Lecture 18 Why Direct Recruitment Is Your Best Friend

Lecture 19 Direct Recruitment 1: Your Organisation's Website

Lecture 20 Direct Recruitment 2: People Who Already Support You

Lecture 21 Direct Recruitment 3: Social Media Recruitment

Lecture 22 Direct Recruitment 4: Social Media Content Plan

Lecture 23 External Recruitment 1: Volunteer Centres and Recruitment Fairs

Lecture 24 External Recruitment 2: The Local Newspaper

Lecture 25 External Recruitment 3: Social Media Marketing

Section 7: Conclusion

Lecture 26 Conclusion

This course is for people in voluntary or paid roles who are trying to recruit volunteers for the first time or within the first two years of their volunteer management career.