Veteran Garden Project (VGP) Volunteer Coordinator
Roles and Responsibilities
The VGP Volunteer Coordinator organizes and manages growing teams of volunteers. Must have excellent interpersonal communication and management skills while exhibiting strong leadership qualities. Must possess excellent organizational skills and ability to communicate with people from diverse backgrounds and experience. The VGP Volunteer Coordinator should know how to distinguish talent and do everything possible to motivate and inspire.
The VGP Volunteer Coordinator collaborates with printing and web organizations to streamline and simplify onboarding, forms, and prescreening for volunteers on VGP website.
Key Roles VGP Volunteer Coordinator
- Work with president, board members, and team leaders to coordinate and delegate tasks.
- Promote goals, membership, and activities as a VGP Committee Chair Officer.
- Shall attend all board and volunteer meetings.
- Brings new ideas to the board and team for growth and improvement.
- Furnish updates and requests at meetings.
- May perform other duties as needed assigned by the board.
- Oversee volunteer recruitment, training, tracking hours, and assignments.
- Engage, inspire, and motivate volunteers.
- Arranges all details of volunteering and communication to all parties.
- Keep volunteer and project documents organized and updated.
- Provide new volunteers with contact information sheet, waiver, prescreening and background checks when necessary.
- Convey VGP purpose to the public
- Work with on-line programs such as our St. John’s volunteers portal.
