Volunteer Program Assistant

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At The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), we're passionate about our mission: to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS volunteers help carry out this mission in so many ways: supporting patients, family members, healthcare professionals, and our community, driving policy advocacy, participating in our campaigns, and helping LLS build much needed capacity.

Product information The Office of Volunteer Engagement (OVE) works to ensure that the volunteer experience across LLS is a meaningful one and that volunteers help to build capacity across the organization.

Purpose The purpose of this role is to help ensure a consistent volunteer experience by creating a series of standardized role descriptions for key volunteer positions using a standardized template. Having completed and consistent role descriptions will be critical to the integration of our new volunteer management platform, Digital Cheetah.

Position Tasks

• Using the role description template, the Program Assistant will create standardized role descriptions for each major volunteer role
• In some instances a current description is in place and will just need to be updated for the new template
• In some instances a description will have to be created from publicity and other program materials using the template to ensure consistency
• After drafting all the descriptions, the Program Assistant will send them to staff for review and comment, finalize the descriptions based on staff feedback, and review them for consistency.

Desired Skills

Volunteer should possess the following skills/qualifications:

• An interest in the field of volunteer engagement and/or human resources
• Proficient at Microsoft word
• Good writing and proofreading skills
• Attention to detail

Location

National Office, 3 International Drive, Suite 200 Rye Brook, NY 10573. Some work may be done remotely with either in person or phone check-ins on a weekly basis.

Time Commitment

This project is expected to take between 40 and 80 hours to complete and must be completed by November 5.

Shift Times

Flexible schedule based on mutually agreed upon times. Work must be completed during business hours 9am - 5pm.

Background check required No

Training

LLS will provide the volunteer with an orientation to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society including an overview of the volunteer program and introduction to the digital cheetah system.

Benefits

Free Parking

Computer and work space provided solely for the purpose of this project

Access to LLS resources (Patient Access, etc.)

Opportunity to learn about an electronic volunteer management system

Reference for college credit is possible. Need must be indicated at the time of volunteer interview for consideration.