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Volunteer Co-ordinator

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Cantabrainers Therapeutic choir is for people living with a neurological condition such as stroke, Parkinsons, MS, traumatic brain injury. Experience helping people with a disability would be desirable but not essential.

We are looking for a volunteer co-ordinator that can give 4-5 hours per week to help manage our current and future volunteers (estimated 6-10 volunteers). The volunteer co-ordinator would attend our choir sessions and help organise a roster for the other volunteers. The volunteer co-ordinator will report to our General Manager and work alongside our Music Therapist and Speech Language Therapist.

Our current volunteers are wonderful and very loyal. We would like help to recruit new volunteers to provide extra hands each week, and provide cover for sickness or holidays.

The role would also help with simple administration tasks like updating our member database, assist with registrations, update attendance records and provide a brief report of each choir.

This will be a new role so someone that is able to develop the role and make it their own would be great. They will need good organisational skills, have good people skills and a positive can-do attitude.

We will provide suitable training, professional development and support. Police vetting will be a requirement along with good English skills.

Requirements:
  • 4-5 hours per week
  • Provide a contact point for our volunteers.
  • Assist with recruiting Volunteers through Volunteer Canterbury, our website, and other avenues.
  • Assist with selecting and onboarding Volunteers.
  • Supervise and mentor Volunteers.
  • Ensure individual volunteers are given appropriate support and guidance to maintain their enthusiasm.
  • Identify means of recognising and rewarding volunteers
  • Ensure that new volunteers are welcomed appropriately and are clear on their role/responsibilities including whom to approach if any difficulties are encountered
  • Prepare a roster to ensure there is adequate cover for each choir session, plan around volunteer holidays, other commitments and sickness.
  • Admin tasks such as maintaining our choir member list and registration forms
  • New members details to be set up in our systems.
  • Email choir members each Monday with a reminder about choir session. Update choir email list. Simple Choir report each week – attendance, any issues, visitors/potential new members.
  • Quick check in with GM each week

A Police background check is required for this role.

Time commitment:

4-5 hours per week
Attend our City Choir Wednesdays (9.30am-12pm) and ideally our Woodend based choir Tuesdays (1-3.30pm)
It is not essential to attend both choirs each week but being able to visit the Woodend choir once a month would be valuable.
Being able to make your own way to the venues would be important.

Getting started:
The first step is to express your interest by filling out the form below. We will then put you in touch directly with the organisation for more information on the role and how to proceed.

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