Volunteer Management Training

Volunteer Management Training is highly recommended for any organisations

who want to improve their involvement with attracting new volunteers to your organisation.

A key element of this training is to work on your Volunteer Policy

which is vital for any group taking on new volunteers. The Volunteer Policy will

help you develop clear guidelines on why your organisation is involving

volunteers and how volunteers will be involved, recruited, supported, recognised

and evaluated in your organisation 

The course can be offered over four evenings from 7.00pm- 10.00pm, week days

or a full day on Saturday.  With sufficient number in an area we will offer this

training in Edenderry, Banagher and in Tullamore. 

For further information please Contact us 

Module 1:

Aim: To plan for volunteer involvement and design volunteer roles

Objectives: By the end of this training participants will be able to:

• Reflect on how volunteers benefit your organisation
• To understand the expectations of the volunteers and of the organisations
• Examine potential costs of involving volunteers
• Understand and to write a role specification and a person specification
• Understand an exit interview and its importance

Module 2:

Aim: To explore best practice for recruitment, selection and induction of

volunteers for their organisation

Objectives: By the end of this training participants will be able to:

• Understand effective recruitment and selection methods
• Design a recruitment campaign for your organisation
• Analyse application approaches
• Design suitable interview questions
• Draft an induction plan
• Examine volunteer agreements

Module 3:

Aim: To provide participants with an understanding of the role and

importance of support and supervison when managing volunteers.

Objectives: By the end of this training participants will be able to:

• Define supervision and its purpose
• Identify positive support and supervision skills and techniques
• Identify ways to motivate and recognise volunteers
• Explore ways of dealing with difficult situations

Module 4:

Aim: To give particpants the knowledge and tools to design and implement

a volunteer policy

Objectives: By the end of this training participants will be able to:

• Definte what a policy is
• Identify key elements of a volunteer policy
• Consider those who need to be consulted when drafting the policy
• Draft a volunteer policy
• Plan for implementation of the policy