Volunteer Job Description
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective volunteer job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included volunteer job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Volunteer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Volunteer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPR, GOLD, AED, ALWAYS, WA, YMCA, GED, TABE, CVA, II
Education for Volunteer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the volunteer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and High School Degree in Human Services, Education, Management, Social Services, General Education, Behavioral Sciences, Communications, Health, Marketing, Social Work
Skills for Volunteer
Desired skills for volunteer include:
Desired experience for volunteer includes:
Volunteer Examples
Volunteer Job Description
- Answer incoming telephone calls, monitor voicemail sort and distribute internal mail, provide other clerical and administrative functions (typing, copying, filing, ) as assigned
- Maintain volunteer personnel files
- Develop a thorough volunteer needs assessment for assigned territory
- Identify key partnership opportunities and market segments ideal for Biomedical Volunteer Recruitment
- Increase volunteer retention (volunteer with us more than once)
- Manage requests for complementary therapist, assign therapists to patients, and track therapist’s assignments
- Complete onboarding paperwork for student placements in collaboration with clinical services
- Perform annual written evaluations of volunteer and complementary therapist performance
- Collaborate with writing and distribution of monthly volunteer newsletter
- Responsible for the daily operations of the Volunteer and H2U programs fulfilling all requirements for reports to the H2U national office
- Two (2) years experience in marketing, senior services or event planning preferred
- Willingness and ability to conduct in-state travel, occasional out-of-state travel
- High School graduate plus post-secondary degree or diploma in relevant field (such as communications, public relations, human services, and health) is required
- Minimum of 2-4 years experience in a nonprofit agency working directly with volunteers
- Minimum preferred education – Bachelor’s Degree
- Valid driver’s license and flexibility to work some evenings and weekends
Volunteer Job Description
- Staff, coordinate and oversee the volunteers needed for special events in consideration of the UWEC Leadership Team’s vision for engagement as communicated by the Resource Director
- Serve as the lead staff member insuring the success of Day of Caring
- Build and maintain positive relationships with corporate partners, educational/service/health and civic organizations
- Identify and participate in opportunities to promote volunteerism
- Execute reporting and evaluation tasks by effectively tracking volunteer hours, program outputs and outcomes, strengths and needs, program budgets, and impact stories
- Support the critical link between UWEC and local businesses by linking partners to engagement opportunities and by deploying assets and information as needed
- Develop funding and support necessary for a successful volunteer program
- Submit expenses related to the Volunteer Program to the Communications and Outreach Director monthly
- Collect data and assist with reporting as required by grant and funding agreements
- File or oversee correct filing of all volunteer paperwork
- Proven ability to manage and develop hospice volunteers for both patient and organizational needs
- 15+ years leading in volunteer management (4+ years at a national level)
- 4+ years of data management oversight for volunteer programs
- Experience in budget oversight
- Experience in working in an intense, fast-paced work environment
- High capacity, goal driven person
Volunteer Job Description
- Responsible for coordinating all applicable meetings, training classes, compliance assignments and appreciation events for the volunteers, along with any other necessary activities (ie
- Ensures compliance by administering volunteer supervision in accordance with applicable hospital policies and with proper documentation and placed in the volunteer's file in a timely manner
- Ensures compliance by developing policy and procedures related to volunteer service in compliance with human resource (HR) and hospital policy along with federal and state regulation
- Interviews and screens prospective volunteers to determine competencies for placement in specific programs
- Develops and maintains programs to recognize the contribution of volunteers to the medical center (luncheons, celebration week, newsletters
- Develop strong working relationships with community based organizations, focusing on those organizations whose work aligns with our Investing In Results (IIR) priorities
- Manages / executes monthly outreach calls to CeDAR alumni
- Oversees the CeDAR Alumni Services Volunteer Program, including recruitment, onboarding and assigning shifts
- Plans / executes all CeDAR alumni activities, including networking opportunities, and community service projects
- Prepares bi-monthly reports related to alumni activity
- Must be team oriented, collaborative and persuasive in approach and leadership style
- Candidates that have experience with volunteer recruitment and engagement, project management skills
- Success and enjoyment derived from problem solving within existing resources
- Highly productive worker, who can do the work
- Must have 24-hour access to a motor vehicle and maintain personal automobile insurance coverage as defined by state law and/or company policy
- Or Social field
Volunteer Job Description
- Maintains high professional standards and has an attitude of excellent customer service
- Ensures that all events are organized with deadlines and budgets
- Training on Box file share system
- Introduction to Volunteer Engagement best practices
- Build your resume with a highly respected nonprofit organization
- Engage with fun and mission focused staff
- Volunteer Engagement and volunteer program building experience
- Free parking at Rye Brook, NY location
- Hire, train, schedule, counsel, and supervise volunteers by providing support, information, education, and feedback by phone, via e-mail, and in person as necessary
- Track requests for volunteers, assigns volunteers to participants or service requests, and track volunteer assignments
- Competitive English style riding and equine management experience preferred
- Basic knowledge of standard computer keyboard
- Ability to communicate verbally in an effective manner
- Ability to appropriately respond to verbal and non-verbal communication from patients in diverse stages of development
- Ability to use computer systems including Epic
- Ability to read and use hospital floor maps to provide accurate directions to guests
Volunteer Job Description
- Counsels and provides corrective action when approved standards of performance are not met, notifies the Director when chronic or severe
- Provides recognition of service through awards, and daily interaction
- Assists with the organization and implementation of the Hospital Volunteer recognition events
- Prepares the monthly statistical reports for Bethlehem and, as requested, periodic reports for management
- Supervises the day to day operations of the department, in the absence of the Director and Coordinator
- Collects mail daily
- Assists the department in processing background clearances required by SLUHN, prepares orientation materials, obtains Health History reports for volunteers from Employee Health, secures room and equipment for orientations and any other meeting requests
- Coordinates and introduces new volunteers first day or training in assigned department
- Obtains volunteer substitutes in key areas as necessary
- Chronic tardiness, illness or other important volunteer information will be addressed and if chronic, reported to the Director
- Able to represent Children’s in a mature and professional manner
- Willing to work long hours that could include evenings and weekends, if applicable to internship
- Able to travel throughout expanded metro Atlanta area
- Knowledge of the principles and methodology used to improve employees' performance
- Knowledge of processes and procedures of training programs management
- Previous health care setting experience preferred