Creates, promotes and supports high-quality volunteer experiences for corporate partners and community members. Must be able to accommodate evening and weekend scheduling for volunteer events.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Recruits and connects community members to volunteer opportunities, events and projects.
- Collaborates with Marketing Department staff to promote volunteer opportunities, events and projects.
- Collaborates with Resource Development staff to identify date-specific group service projects for campaign company employees. Provides support for agency tours, speakers and campaign presentations for company employees.
- Develops and nurtures relationships with local agencies.
- Posts volunteer opportunities on Hands-On. Tracks volunteer hours in Hands-On as part of Salesforce.
- Works with Marketing Department staff to ensure Manatee area volunteer opportunities are included in the VolunTimes magazine.
- Writes project description for volunteer engagement events.
- Coordinates large scale volunteer initiatives such as Day of Caring, Stuff the Bus, etc.
- Plans and leads assigned volunteer and engagement site projects assigned by the Director. Partners with team members to assist with planning and execution of other volunteer events as needed.
- Provides procurement support to the Director and Volunteer Experience Manager(s) to ensure cost-effective and efficient sourcing of project materials.
- Cultivates relationships and manages regular communication with local agencies, schools, and nonprofits to maintain project inventory for individual and corporate volunteers.
- Assists in the planning and execution of Volunteer Appreciation activities.
- Completes engagement and impact reports.
- Recruits volunteers and develops volunteer leaders for Community Impact initiatives, including ReadingPals, See Spot Read Spot and VITA programs.
- Tracks and reports outcomes for initiatives.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Supervisory Responsibilities: Community volunteers.
Educational Background:
Minimum of BA or BS degree or comparable work experience.
Skills/Experience:
The following requirements are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required to satisfactorily perform the essential job duties. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Education and/or Experience: A minimum of 2 years of progressively responsible experience in the field of project management, event planning or volunteer management is preferred.
- Knowledge of Customer Relationship Management, Community Relations and/or Sales and Marketing, and Project Management.
- Interpersonal Skills: Excellent active listening, interpersonal, persuasion, and presentation skills required. Strong problem solving, critical thinking, and judgment skills required. Business writing and supervisory skills necessary. Strong administrative and operational skills essential.
- Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze and interpret business periodicals, news articles and professional publications. Ability to write reports and business correspondence. Ability to present information to and respond to questions from groups of diverse organizational employees, managers, and senior level high profile decision makers. Fluency in Spanish is desired.
- Computer Skills: Requires advanced knowledge of MS office software and data base programs. Experience with Salesforce or other CRM systems preferred.
- Presentations Skills: Excellent public speaking and presentation skills needed.
- Licenses: Valid Florida Driver’s License
- Other Skills: Problem solving capabilities and cultural diversity skills.
- Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
How to Apply:
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Listing Stats
Post Date:
Feb 19 2018
Active Until:
Mar 19 2018
Hiring Organization:
United Way Worldwide
industry:
Nonprofit