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2 people are interested
Volunteer Coordinator for Children Save Ocean Organization
ORGANIZATION: Kids Save Ocean
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2 people are interested
We’re looking for a volunteer coordinator. You'll manage all elements of volunteering on behalf of the Children Save Ocean Organization. You'd be instrumental in assessing and meeting our rapidly expanding organization’s needs through the recruitment, placement and retention of volunteers.
Responsibilities
- Ensure the purpose of our organization and its actions is clearly communicated
- Keep records of volunteers’ information and assignments
- Place volunteers in research areas relative to our priorities and needs
- Communicate regularly with volunteers to ensure they are satisfied and well-placed
- Update volunteers on anything exciting that happens, as they, in large part, are the organization. Also update them on how close we are to reaching our goals
- Suggest changes and ideas about how best to coordinate volunteers - your growing experience and insight will be key to enable us to develop a program that tries to give back to the volunteers as much as they give to us
Requirements
- Excellent organizational and team coordination abilities-either through experience or natural tendencies
- Either experience as operations director or similar position, or a natural abilities or interests that will enable you to fulfill this position
- Some working knowledge of simple databases and MS Office (especially Excel), or ability to quickly learn programs like that
- Able to communicate pleasantly and effectively with diverse people
- A sense of adventure -this is an amazing project, and growing unbelievably fast
Are you out there? We really need your help.
About the wonderful volunteers you’ll be coordinating
Our volunteers research media and organizational contacts that we'll connect with at various stages of our Children Save Ocean United Nations project, initiated by concerned children to clean the ocean. These contacts will be instrumental in enabling us to extend our reach and transform our idea into a vibrant reality empowering children and stepping up protection of our oceans. The project is called The Last Whale -the title of the giant sculpture that started it all. If we don’t revolutionize our approach to ocean pollution, there may very well be a last whale.Please see much more about the project at:
www.childrensaveocean.com
More opportunities with Kids Save Ocean
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Kids Save Ocean
Location:
Heissgasse, Vienna, Vienna 1230, AT
Mission Statement
Our core mission is to give children everywhere a voice about our planet's environment, a mission we currently approach through our mobile app development, our work with the United Nations, and our exhibitions. Integral to that mission is providing teachers with a platform to deeply engage their students about plastic ocean pollution, climate change and the critically related issue of sustainability. Why? Children deserve a voice in this world. And empowering them with one may just be the help we obviously so desperately need.
Description
Kids Save Ocean began in 2016 when teacher Peder Hill helped 12-year-olds build a 15-foot whale from trash to bring attention to ocean plastic pollution. Dissatisfied by their inability to have any impact, his efforts expanded to face-painting, exhibitions, the Children’s Clean Ocean Summit at the UN, and the Fatechanger mobile app. Along the way a global network of volunteers joined him, all drawn to the same simple powerful idea: give kids a voice.
The Urgent Need for Sustainability
Education is key to enabling us to transform our world into a sustainable one. Sustainability, however, remains unintegrated into curricula across the globe. Teachers everywhere, students everywhere, need powerful tools today to understand and develop a sustainable world for tomorrow. The future depends on us. There’s no time left to tiptoe.
A Unique Model - Learning Tools with Teeth
Kids Save Ocean’s Fatechanger app and its innovative teaching and learning resources will help fill both these critical voids, creating a platform focused on the visual and visceral issue of ocean plastic pollution (a topic directly connected to sustainability) to deeply engage kids and give them a global voice to impact these challenges - initially through facilitating and tracking a global letter-writing campaign, then through including them informally and eventually formally in the United Nations.
Volunteers power Kids Save Ocean. Please join us.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
November 28, 2017
SKILLS
- Program Management
- Office Management
- Basic Computer Skills
- Human Resources Strategy
- Business Development
- Administrative Support
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
N/A