by Jayne Cravens
  via coyotecommunications.com & coyoteboard.com (same web site)

How Volunteers Can Support the Person In Charge of Volunteer Engagement

The person in charge of volunteer engagement at a nonprofit, NGO, charity, school or other civil society organization or mission-based program - usually called the volunteer manager or leader of volunteers - primarily recruits and manages volunteers that are supporting other staff: the program staff, for instance, may need mentors for clients or people to clean up a public space or to foster animals. The fundraising staff may need volunteers to staff a donor event. The marketing manager may need volunteers to accurately caption the nonprofit's videos on YouTube.  

But the person in charge of volunteer engagement should also be thinking about how volunteers can help with volunteer engagement - with the recruitment, onboarding, training, support and recognition of volunteers.

That can not only help the person in charge of volunteer engagement have more time for creating strategies, addressing critical needs and engaging in professional development, as well as leveraging far more talent and experiences than any one person can have, it also is leading by example: if you want more staff to create roles and tasks for volunteers, and to be effectively supporting them, you need to be leading by example! 
 

Roles for Volunteers to Support Volunteer Engagement

Here are volunteer management tasks that volunteers can help with - there are no doubt FAR more:

And note that many of these activities can be done online, by volunteers working from their home or work places remote to your organization.

Remember that creating roles & tasks for volunteers means that each role needs to be IN WRITING and that you need to make sure the foundations of volunteer engagement are in place, or your volunteer engagement will suffer, even fail.

See this index of volunteer engagement-related resources on this web site for more resources to effectively engage and support volunteers.
 
And also have a look at:


 The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook:
Fully Integrating Online Service Into Volunteer Involvement.


A comprehensive guide to using online tools for supporting & engaging ALL volunteers, & for creating online roles & online tasks for volunteers.

The Ultimate Guide to Setting Up Virtual Volunteering At Any Organization.

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