This course is designed for anyone who needs to create a volunteer role description. It is suitable for trustees, managers or volunteer co-ordinators in organisations who involve volunteers.

Whether you are recruiting volunteers for the first time or looking to improve the effectiveness of your recruitment – this course will give you the knowledge and skills you need to feel confident in drawing up volunteer role descriptions.
There will be a step by step approach and practical individual and group exercises leading you towards developing your own volunteer role description.

This is a three hour course that will cover:

• Your starting point; what do you want volunteers to do
• What are volunteer role descriptions and why we need them
• Things to consider when planning volunteer roles
• What to include in your volunteer role description
• Getting started creating an awarding volunteer role
• Using the role description

Learning outcomes

• Know why we need role descriptions for volunteers
• Be able to identify the key components of a volunteer role description
• Understand how to create your own volunteer role descriptions
• Know how the volunteer role description fits in with your organisations overall volunteer programme