Creating Volunteer Roles

Overview

• Creating Volunteer Roles - VE article

Articles

• Developing Task Descriptions - VE article
• Darling, You Were Marvellous! - Volunteering magazine
• Strike Action - Volunteering magazine
• Creative Volunteering Roles - Energize Inc article
• Are You Passionate About The Work Of Your Volunteers? - Fraser Dyer article
• Creative Volunteer Roles - Camden Volunteer Centre fact sheet (MS Word)
• What Will Volunteers Do? - WCVA fact sheet (MS Word)

Examples, Samples and Templates

Generic sample documents

• Sample Volunteer Role Description - Royal Soxiety for the Protection of Birds (MS Word)

Real life examples

• Example Volunteer Role Descriptions - The PDSA (PDF)
• Example Volunteer Role Descriptions - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (PDF)

Please note that Volunteering England has not produced the 'real life example' documents listed directly above and is therefore unable to take responsibility for the content. Volunteering England and the organisations that contribute example documents to the Good Practice Bank can accept no responsibility for how they are used. They are presented as examples of good practice, but it is every volunteer-involving organisation's responsibility to ensure that their volunteers are safe, and that policies and procedures meet current legal requirements.

Links

• Off the Streets and Into Work Resource Bank on including clients as volunteers
  Amongst other resources, this site features tips from volunteer managers and includes some on creating volunteer roles.
  http://www.osw.org.uk/
• Long list of volunteer motivations
  http://charityguide.org/
• List of 100 different roles in health and social care settings
  from Volunteering England's Health and Social Care project
• The Running Sport website, created by Sport England, offers downloadable resources for volunteer managers and volunteers, including quick guides on the roles of chair, treasurer and secretary.
  http://www.runningsports.org/

Share your experiences!

The Good Practice Bank is growing steadily as more information is added to it. An important feature of the Bank is allowing users to share their documents with other volunteering organisations. We are particularly interested in receiving example policies or documents that you are happy to share with others. If we use your contribution, you could win a book on volunteering from our regular prize draw.

• If your organisation has an example to contribute, please use our simple form to submit it.
• Or, please send us an email or telephone 0800 028 3304 (Monday-Friday, 10.30am-12.30pm and 2.00pm-4.00pm)
• We welcome calls through Typetalk/TextDirect. Please dial 18001 followed by 0800 028 3304 (opening hours as above).