1. Volunteer Management (including befrienders)
- To manage the volunteers’ engagement, deployment and experience in order to achieve the organization’s mission and vision and build sustainable partnerships that mutually benefits.
- Support in coordination, recruitment, deployment, training, retention, and recognition of individual/corporate volunteers.
- To curate materials to support the corporate services in their marketing and communications work.
- To oversee and maintain an up to date database of volunteers and corporate partners
2. Educational/Employment Needs
- To provide academic/employment support for assigned residents in the Home.
- Provide group or one-on-one coaching to support residents’ educational needs.
- Implement and monitor progress of individualised educational plans and academic performance
- To deploy volunteers or professional resource pool to support academic needs accordingly and review /evaluate the effectiveness of help given.
- As needed, to provide guidance to tertiary residents in their employment/educational pathways and transitions
- To support in outcome reporting at relevant platforms
3. Programme/activities and Life Skills
- To oversee the scheduling and organization of volunteer-directed programmes to ensure a balanced representation of the different types of activities.
- To work with the team in co-designing, facilitating and evaluating the implementation of the Life Skills Programme.
Job Requirements:
- A degree in a related discipline
- 2 years of relevant work experience in volunteer management, programme development or groupwork will be an advantage. Fresh graduates may be considered as well.
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Understanding of programme development
- Possess good knowledge of the social service and educational landscape /resources
- Good written and oral communication
- Possess high level of initiative, independence and adaptability.
- High levels of accountability and adaptability
- Able to work after office hours or on weekends if required