VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT MASTERCLASS: SCREENING

Volunteer Screening made Easy: How to Save Hours and Engage Effectively

Screening is essential for numerous volunteer programmes, but it shouldn't consume too much of your team's resources.

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Empowering Volunteers with Technology: Introducing the Rosterfy Mobile App

Oct 15 @ 10:00 am (BST) - Duration 30 minutes

Introducing the Rosterfy Mobile App - Empowering your volunteer community to get involved in more opportunities and find more ways to support your mission.

Hosted by Martin O'Neill, Head of Marketing for Rosterfy. This live webinar will cover:

  • How a trend towards on-demand services has changed the behaviour of volunteers
  • An introduction to the Mobile App with Rosterfy Senior Technical Business Analyst -
    Jake Geddes
  • How to introduce the Rosterfy Mobile App to your community
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Featuring insights and strategies from leading volunteer programmes

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LESSON 3. SCREENING

Volunteer Screening made Easy: How to Save Hours and Engage Effectively

Rosterfy is joined by Tuesday from Pregnancy Sickness Support as we present creative ways to streamline your volunteer screening process and enhance engagement.

What You’ll Learn:

  • How to simplify your screening process
  • How to reduce the admin screening creates
  • Best practices for evaluating volunteer applications
  • How technology can help you automate tasks
  • How to foster volunteer loyalty through rewarding and spending more time with volunteers
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Key Learnings

Tuesday and the team at Pregnancy Sickness Support have built an incredible volunteer programme to support their cause. Despite what is often a very challenging mission, dealing with life and death situations, their dedicated volunteers continue to offer their time and they are growing their programme.

Here’s some guidance from Tuesday on developing a programme that demands comprehensive screening and training without overwhelming you with administrative tasks.

Key ways to improve your volunteer screening:

  • Implement a platform such as Rosterfy to streamline and automate the majority of the administrative workload.

  • Outline your current onboarding process and pinpoint areas for improvement at each stage.

  • Make sure that communication is clear at every stage of the onboarding process, so your volunteers understand what to expect next.

  • The mental health of your volunteers is crucial, so allocate your saved time to enhance their wellbeing.

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Technology

Software platforms like Rosterfy will automate and free up more time
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Streamline

Identify where in the volunteer application and onboarding process can be made more efficient
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Next steps

Ensure you communicate the next steps required clear to progress the application
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Safeguard

Streamlining your programme will free up time that can be spent on volunteer wellbeing
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CASE STUDY FROM THE LESSON

“Rosterfy allows us to spend much more time rewarding and recognising our volunteers for the incredible work they do, it also means I’m more available for our volunteers who are carrying the trauma of many of the people we support”

Tuesday McEwan, Volunteer Manager, Pregnancy Sickness Support

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Volunteer Management Masterclass Lessons

Masterclass Lesson 1
1. RECRUITMENT

How to create an attention grabbing volunteer programme

Covered in this lesson:

  • Understanding what motivates people to join your programme in particular
  • The reasons why people choose to volunteer
  • Creating a more effective process for volunteer role applications
  • Case Studies from successful volunteer programmes
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Masterclass lesson 2
2. APPLICATIONS

How to create a more effective 'Volunteer Application Funnel'

Covered in this lesson:

  • How to calculate your volunteer applicant conversion rate
  • How to get more people from 'Interested' to 'Active'
  • Examples from organisations such as British Heart Foundation
  • Resource material and actionable advice throughout the lesson
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Masterclass Lesson 3
3. SCREENING

Volunteer Screening made Easy: How to Save Hours and Engage Effectively

Covered in this lesson:

  • How to simplify your screening process
  • How to reduce the admin screening creates
  • Best practices for evaluating volunteer applications
  • How technology can help you automate tasks
  • How to foster volunteer loyalty
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Masterclass 4
4. RETENTION

How to use storytelling to improve volunteer onboarding and retention

Covered in this lesson:

  • Fundamentals of storytelling and how they can be applied to volunteer onboarding
  • Practical strategies for crafting narratives
  • How to create a sense of belonging and purpose through shared stories
  • Real-life examples of storytelling to enhance volunteer engagement
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Masterclass Lesson 5
5. SCHEDULING

Smart Volunteer Scheduling: Grow your Programme. Not your Workload.

Covered in this lesson:

  • How to scale your programme not your workload
  • Proven methods to streamline volunteer scheduling
  • How technology helps you automate manual tasks
  • How London Youth Games has built a strong volunteer community
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Masterclass Lesson 6
6. RECOGNITION

Beyond a Thank you: How Recognition Drives Volunteer Retention

Covered in this lesson:

  • Why recognition is essential to building a thriving volunteer programme
  • Strategies for implementing reward and recognition initiatives
  • How recognition influences volunteer satisfaction, retention, and advocacy
  • Practical tips for scaling volunteer engagement efforts with limited resources
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