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== About This Job == | == About This Job == | ||
This job description is a proposed position for an Americorps volunteer. The purpose of this position is to improve the Free Geek volunteer experience and to more effectively utilize volunteer skills. | This job description is a proposed position for an Americorps volunteer. The purpose of this position is to improve the Free Geek volunteer experience and to more effectively utilize volunteer skills. |
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About This Job
This job description is a proposed position for an Americorps volunteer. The purpose of this position is to improve the Free Geek volunteer experience and to more effectively utilize volunteer skills.
Responsibilities
- Improve support for Spanish-speaking volunteers, including materials, documentation, translators, etc.
- Redirect volunteers who have completed the Build and Adoption programs
- Help ameliorate the orientation process for new volunteers, including tours
- Create a procedure for identifying volunteer skills
- Assist Education Coordinator with recruitment and processing of volunteer interns
- Evaluate the lack of space in various places, especially Build
- Formulate post-Adoption and post-Build surveys to create feedback loop for volunteer experience
- Help create a process for screening for dangerous behavior in new volunteers
- Assist with creation of volunteer contract/expectations for new volunteers
- Help coordinate volunteer appreciation events
- Research food donations
- Work with Office Coordinator support the volunteer desk
- Document as needed, which will be often
- Attend and participate in Inreach meetings
- Coordinate with other staff members
- Work floor shifts coordinating volunteers
Required Skills
- Experience managing volunteers
- Demonstrated documentation skills
- Work well under stress in an unusual setting, maintaining a positive attitude even in the face of adversity
- Self-motivation, ability to take initiative
- Friendly, outgoing personality
- Patient and courteous with the public
- Likes working with people
- Good organizational skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Able to work in an informal, friendly environment with a diverse staff
- Ability to work and communicate well in a collectively-run organization
- Ability to work in a consensus decision making process related to staff and policy issues
- Not afraid to ask questions, but able to work on projects almost entirely without supervision
- Able to remain flexible as Free Geek grows and changes