Volunteer Opportunity Details:

The Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership of Marin (the Center) promotes volunteerism, strengthens nonprofit organizations, and enhances community leadership in Marin County through a broad range of services and resources. We are both a volunteer center and a management support organization. The Center is building its Volunteer Engagement program with the help of 2 California Volunteer VISTA members. These VISTAs will help us provide varied volunteer engagement opportunities for the broader Marin community. As a result of our community outreach program this past year, we’ve identified a need to enhance our community outreach activities. Since few organizations have the resources to effectively engage and support underserved volunteers in service, we believe that if we enhance our program to assist our nonprofit community we will be able to help engage more volunteers in making measureable differences within impoverished communities. Working together as a part of a five member team, this VISTA will expand the Center’s reach and capacity to deliver programs—and increase service delivery community wide.

Specific Duties The VISTA member who will support the Volunteer Engagement program will be responsible for the following activities:
• Develop comprehensive marketing strategy to volunteers, nonprofits and public agencies to encourage their partnership with CVNL and use of online volunteer management tool
• Serve as the CVNL liaison to organizations that have had little or no contact;
• Serve as the liaison to organizations in areas outside the primary service area to expand the geographic reach of the Hub;
• Assist with the coordination and implementation of volunteer management training;
• Assist nonprofits and public agencies with the development of volunteer job descriptions;
• Assist nonprofits and public agencies with the posting of their volunteer opportunities on the CVMN Hub's volunteer matching website;
• Recruits, trains, and supports the mobilization of underserved volunteers and the management of volunteer projects that meet specific community needs of low-income communities and schools.
• Develop and follow-up with a target list of organizations as potential volunteer engagement collaborating partners;
• Represent the Center in the community by attending community meetings to develop an understanding of the needs of individual volunteers and build relations with local organization staff;
• Partner with peer organizations with successful programs to learn best practices and develop new opportunities for service;
• Work with organizations to develop opportunities for key demographics (i.e. boomers, skilled volunteers, people with disabilities, business volunteers, families etc.);
• Assist in the identification, recruitment and cultivation of possible volunteer leaders;
• Build relationships within targeted low-income communities towards engaging residents as volunteer project leaders within their community;
• Work collaboratively with all departments and VISTAs at the Center and assist efforts to deliver a broad range of services

• An interest in the field of nonprofit capacity building
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Customer service oriented
• Attention to detail
• Computer literate – able to use common software applications and learn new technologies
• Knowledge of basic office equipment – photocopier, fax machine, printer
• Ability to conduct research in person and via the internet
• Position may require some ability to work in the evenings and on the weekends

This opportunity is sponsored by: Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership

This volunteer opportunity is available to the following types of volunteers Adults (26-54) Individual Adults (55+) Young Adults (18-25) We need volunteers who are free at these times Weekdays

Contact Person: Christina Dragonetti, (phone), (email) View all agency contacts

Address:

555 Northgate Drive San Rafael, CA 94903 (See a map)

Directions:

Directions from the South: From Northbound Highway 101, take the Freitas Parkway/Terra Linda exit and turn to the right onto Civic Center Drive. Turn right at the stop light onto the Merrydale Road, continue over the overpass. Turn left at the stoplight onto Los Ranchitos. Turn right at the first stoplight onto Northgate Drive. The Center is on the left-hand side of the street, across from Sears Auto Center. Directions from the North: From Southbound Highway 101, take the Freitas Parkway/Terra Linda exit. At the stop light proceed straight across Freitas Parkway. At the next light, turn left onto Las Gallinas, which turns into Los Ranchitos. Turn right at the second light onto Northgate Drive. The Center is on the left-hand side of the street, across from the Sear's Auto Center.