Survey: Volunteer Manager's Skills and Knowledge

posted by stevenhowlett on Tue, 10/08/2010 - 11:04pm

One of the things we have been thinking about at AVM is how volunteer managers become volunteer managers and then how their career progresses.

Members may remember we conducted a survey when we started in which many managers identified a lack of a career path as a drawback of the role. This got us thinking about a number of things.

One was the idea of professionalization. This seemed to give volunteer managers the opportunity to have a career structure like other professions. It is something we are still thinking about. But linked to this must be ideas of what is ‘the body of knowledge' needed to be a volunteer manager - and where managers access that knowledge.

There is some work going on in this area, but we would like to add a little more And draw on your knowledge as AVM members.

This link takes you to a short survey (not more than 10 minutes to fill out we promise). We will be feeding back findings in a few weeks.

 

Comments

On Thu, 12/08/2010 - 11:24am
<p>So often the criteria for what makes a good manager of volunteers is identified by those with no operational or strategic experience in this area. If we want to be credible as a group of professionals we need to take the lead on establishing the indicators and supporting evidence of good volunteer management, and this survey is a great first step, well done Steven and thanks for putting it together I am sure that in years time there will be lots of managers of volunteers, across all sectors who are properly valued and appreciated within their organisations as a result!</p>
By debbieu -- Debbie Usiskin