From volunteer mentor to volunteer manager
10 of the 29 essential skills of a volunteer manager are already essential for a volunteer mentor — about 34% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from volunteer mentor in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 10
- skills carry over
- 19
- would be new
- 34%
- of the target job covered
- 29
- essential skills of a volunteer manager
What a volunteer manager does
Volunteer managers work across the non-profit sector to recruit, train, motivate and supervise volunteers. They are in charge of designing volunteer assignments, recruiting volunteers, reviewing the tasks undertaken and impact made, providing feedback and managing their overall performance against the objectives of the organisation. Volunteer coordinators might also manage online volunteering activities, sometimes known as cyber-volunteering or e-volunteering.
What carries over
10 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
What would be new
19 skillsEssential for a volunteer manager and not for a volunteer mentor. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- analyse community needs
- animate in the outdoors
- cooperate with colleagues
- coordinate events
- create social alliances
- evaluate social work program's impact
- labour law
- lead a team
- leadership principles
- manage volunteering programmes
- manage volunteers
- monitor social impact
- perform project management
- project management
- promote inclusion
- promote social change
- recruit personnel
- train volunteers
- work within communities
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How far are you from being a volunteer manager?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.