Volunteer Coordinator

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Are you an outgoing "people person"? Do you want to work with a very diverse team (with volunteers from around the world) who are committed to the goal of greater cross-cultural awareness? Are you community minded and want to make the world a better place? Are you well organized and have a "can do" attitude? Then you just might be the perfect fit to be The Worldview Project's Volunteer Coordinator!

The Worldview Project is a San Diego based non-profit whose mission is to promote cross-cultural awareness, understanding and appreciation through: web-based resources, programs, publications, social networking and events.

Please read through this entire description before contacting us as it contains important information regarding the Volunteer Coordinator duties.

We are seeking an outgoing, collegial, energetic and capable person with great social and organizational skills and experience to:

• Define volunteer needs and develop volunteer opportunity descriptions
• Develop, organize and maintain volunteer and intern recruitment strategies
• Respond to volunteer inquiries in a timely and individualized manner Set interview schedules with prospective volunteers
• Set, maintain and monitor volunteer work schedules (note: this requires familiarity with common office software)
• Generate enthusiasm and commitment in volunteers
• Maintain and update volunteer documents and improve volunteer program and processes
• Organize volunteer team building events

We are looking for someone who can afford to volunteer in our office for at least 10 hours a week and is able to set a firm schedule and stick to it. We consider this to be a key position in our organization and therefore the responsibilities of this position are greater and require commitment and reliability.

The Volunteer Coordinator position requires interaction with our entire team, a greater weekly commitment is needed then most of our other volunteer opportunities.

Our office is open Monday through Friday during normal business hours.

When you write us (please don't telephone), it is helpful if you tell us about your skills, experience, interests and anything else you might want to share so that we may respond to your inquiry more fully.

Please visit our Web site: www.thewvp.org to learn more about our mission, goals and projects. The Worldview Project is an all volunteer organization of dynamic, culturally diverse, smart, capable and interesting volunteers.