discuss: Job Descriptions for TLDP
Subject:
Re: Job Descriptions for TLDP
From:
"David Horton" ####@####.####
Date:
8 Mar 2005 14:20:55 -0000
Message-Id: <W902046700212411110291628@webmail3>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Lawyer ####@####.####
> Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2005 07:50 AM
> To: 'David Horton'
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> Subject: Re: Job Descriptions for TLDP
>
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 07:03:36PM +0000, David Horton wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > A while back Tille suggested that TLDP would benefit from having written
> > descriptions of the various duties and positions within TLDP. I agree
> > that it would be a helpful tool and I would like to take ownership of
> > this idea and begin creating job descriptions. I have a sample template
> > from a series of volunteer management courses I attended recently. I
> > have included this template plus an example of how it could be used for
> > a position at TLDP. Please note that the sample job description is my
> > own interpretation of the position and is not official. My plan is to
> > interview various people within TLDP when filling in the relevant
> > information.
>
> As a volunteer organization, we need to attract competent volunteers
> and let them decide what they want to do. If we paid volunteers, then
> we could specify that they must have certain qualifications, work for a
> specified period of time, etc. But we aren't in a position to require
> that. So I think the job descriptions need to be quite informal and
> flexible.
>
> David Lawyer
>
The job descriptions are not intended to turn volunteers away, but rather
to attract volunteers by letting them know, up front, what the position
entails. People can come to our web site, read a short description of a
volunteer job at TLDP and say, "Hey, I have those skills, I'm signing up,"
or "Oh look, this position only requires one hour per week, I have time
for that."
Contrast this to an organization with no job descriptions. A place where
potential volunteers may be turned away because they cannot determine how
they can help. A place where volunteers quit after a week because the
position they volunteered for was nothing like they thought it would be.
Dave Horton
