Senior Volunteer Recruitment Specialist

The Senior Volunteer Recruitment Specialist develops and executes recruitment strategies to attract volunteers, provides coaching and guidance to recruitment teams, and supports volunteer programs to meet organizational goals. This role involves outreach, relationship building, and collaboration with marketing teams to enhance recruitment efforts.

Responsibilities

• Utilize comprehensive recruitment strategies to meet assigned volunteer recruitment metrics, effectively support goals and ensure placement of sufficient numbers of volunteers to meet operational needs.
• Conduct general and targeted outreach and recruiting activities through various resource pools, networks and social media to obtain volunteer applicants tracked to referral and approval.
• Leverage recruitment venues, in-person presentations, social media campaigns, user groups and professional associations to identify and attract qualified candidates.
• Identify, cultivate, and maintain relationships with key volunteer recruitment agencies/organizations, market segments, and populations to create a robust network and strong candidate pipeline for future needs.
• Partner with assigned staff to strengthen existing relationships, and identify and evaluate prospective volunteer recruitment sources and partnerships.
• Evaluate and modify recruitment strategies based on lessons-learned.
• Support the development and ongoing refinement of the Volunteer Recruitment Plan to include both in-person and digital strategies.
• Provide coaching and guidance to volunteer recruitment teams (paid and volunteers), and foster a culture of volunteerism that supports recruitment strategies.
• Collaborate with marketing and communications teams to leverage existing or develop new recruitment materials.
• Create presentations to ensure maximum effectiveness for online and in-person targeted recruitment efforts.
• Maintain accurate records of all potential and actual volunteer leads through the appropriate tools.
• Produce status reports as directed.
• Support volunteer programs and services to meet established goals and objectives.
• May assist in scheduling and coordinating volunteer orientations, placements, meetings and events.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience.
• Ability to work on a team.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Good organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple and continuously evolving priorities effectively.
• Intermediate proficiency with MS Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Knowledge of group dynamics, customer maintenance techniques, negotiation skills, and the ability to effectively implement programs is preferred.
• May involve travel.
• Combination of candidate’s education and general experience satisfies requirements so long as the total years equate to description’s minimum education and general experience years combined (Management experience cannot be substituted).

Skills

• Volunteer Recruitment
• Recruitment Strategies
• Team Coaching
• Program Implementation
• Outreach Activities
• Relationship Building
• Collaboration
• Presentation Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Organizational Skills
• Negotiation Skills
• Customer Maintenance Techniques
• Microsoft Office Suite
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• Microsoft Outlook

Languages

English