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Volunteer coordinator / manager for innovative nonprofit - telecommuting virtual remote role
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This is a virtual telecommuting role, so you can be anywhere in the world, and you will have full flexibility to do the work any time of the day or night. Experience is not needed.
We are an innovative nonprofit working on many exciting projects that are described below. About 90% of our work is done by volunteers, including our executive director who volunteers full-time. Twice as many people apply as we have available open opportunities for, so we need a volunteer coordinator / manager who can manage some of the volunteers.
We are seeking someone to:
- Assign projects and tasks to volunteers
- Assess their completed work and give them feedback
- Write recommendations and reference letters for volunteers who have done good work
- Make sure that volunteers are doing their hours, so we know if they deserve recommendations
- Interact with the senior managers who are in charge of the areas in which the projects are being done
* Being thorough and paying attention to details
* Good at written communication and at strategizing
* Ability to organize sizable amounts of information and tasks
* Being somewhat tech savvy: enough to use web apps and to be able to record information into a spreadsheet. You don't need to know how to code, or do graphics or anything technically hard to do.
* Ability to commit to at least ten hours per week for at least nine months. A year or longer would be better if possible because it's important for us to keep turnover to a minimum, especially for an important role like this. It will take some time for us to train you and for you to learn everything.
We also have a volunteer recruiter human relations role. View our listings for the details of that. You're welcome to do both roles if they're open at the same time, and you're a good fit for both.
Most of the volunteer coordinating and management will involve volunteers who doing writing, editing, user experience (UX) design and graphic design for a variety of new websites that we are creating. You don't need experience in any of those areas.
Having a good eye for whether a web page looks good and the text flows smoothly would help but is not needed. This is because we've come up with a system in which the volunteers can give feedback to you on the work that other volunteers have done. Then you can give that feedback to people to help them improve their pages.
For example, when a writer drafts the text for a page, you can send the draft to two other writers. Then you can share some or all of their feedback with the original writer. You can of course give your own feedback too.
If you want to get a sense of what we're doing, here are some of our websites that are live, in beta or in initial development. They fall into three broad groups:
http://maximumgood.org/
A few examples are:
https://volunteerathon.org
http://giveitup.net/
http://loseathon.org/
This is a sample of how a person's fundraising page looks - the format is the same at most sites, but each has a unique logo, activity and color scheme:
http://loseathon.org/fundraiser
We've ported the entire IRS database of 1 million nonprofits to our website, so all 1 million nonprofits will automatically have pages at all of the fundraising websites. E.g. -
http://loseathon.org/nonprofit/
We're also creating these tools to give people fundraising opportunities every season and holiday of the year: http://calendarforgood.org/
2) new projects to fight global poverty, slavery and climate change. You can see the logos of many of them at these links. In the future clicking on each logo will go to a unique website:
http://fortheearth.org/
There are other climate change websites we're creating and the best ones are not up there yet.
http://fortheslaves.org/
One of the anti-slavery websites is a modern-day equivalent of the Underground Railroad. You can see the video we made for it and a draft of the website here - when we launch, it will be at .org -
http://virtualrailroad.info
3) an existing website that provides news related to making the world a better place covering various topics including nonprofits, human rights, extreme poverty, climate change, giving and volunteering: http://DailySource.org. This site has existed for over 14 years. You can see a few of the team members here: http://DailySource.org/about/team.
More opportunities with The Daily Source
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About The Daily Source
Location:
3800 S Tamiami Trail, Suite 321, Sarasota, FL 34239, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to bring the highest quality news from hundreds of sources across the Internet to the public in one place on a daily basis.
Description
We are a 21st-century news site bringing the public top quality stories, columns, editorials, photos, videos, audio, live chats and more. We are an IRS-approved 501(c)3 charitable nonprofit organization. Our site aims to be an important contributor in solving the problems facing our country and world by becoming the central resource on the Internet for intelligent, factual and accurate reporting. Whereas almost all publications rely on a small under-trained staff to produce a small number of stories of inconsistent quality, The DailySource chooses from all stories on the Internet. We present the public with high caliber information, news and analysis that has been chosen from over a thousand publications and is centralized in one site. The information people read is at the heart of improving the world. The site is designed to give the public the information they need to make solid decisions about what policies to support, to become more aware of key trends affecting the world, to find spiritual, recreational and cultural opportunities for themselves, to choose how to best spend their money, to learn about beneficial health news and more. The Internet is fast becoming the leading place for people to get their news. Come be on the cutting edge of it with us.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
January 1, 2021
SKILLS
- IT Strategy
- Management
- Organization
- Critical Thinking
- Verbal / Written Communication
- Project Management
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- See listing for details