A free resource for nonprofit organizations, NGOs, civil society organizations,
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by Jayne Cravens
  via coyotecommunications.com & coyoteboard.com (same web site)

Effective Volunteer Engagement:
Creating Roles & Tasks for Volunteers

 
Before you start recruiting volunteers, you need to have defined roles and tasks, in writing. How can you recruit for roles and tasks that you don't have yet? Having written roles and tasks will better ensure everyone has the same expectations about the assignment. It will also force you, the manager, to better ensure you aren't setting up volunteers for failure, aren't asking too much of volunteers, etc. If you don't have time to put assignments in writing, you don't have time to involve volunteers.

Each volunteer role should say, in writing:
But creating assignments is a challenge for a lot of nonprofits, schools, NGOs and others. Here's a way you can approach it:
And then answer all the same questions asked earlier regarding what should be in a written volunteer role or task description.

If you don't have time to do this, then you don't have time to involve volunteers.

Here are more resources on how to create specific types of assignments:

Creating Assignments

  

But before you do any of the above, have you done the FIRST steps in volunteer engagement? And have you created policies and procedures for safety

 
 Return to this web site's index of volunteer engagement-related resources  
 
And also time to 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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(includes table of contents and reviews).

 
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