Position Available: Coordinator of Volunteers

The Friends of Churchville Nature Center are seeking a detail oriented and focused volunteer coordinator to be responsible for our database of volunteers and volunteer opportunities. The volunteer responsibilities include recruiting and training new volunteers, keeping a database of volunteer information and skills, matching volunteers to opportunities that suit their skills, keeping volunteers informed, and conveying the organizations mission and purpose to the public.

Hours – 24 a week, which includes every other weekend.

Salary – $21,216.00 annual

Job Responsibilities & Duties:

❖ The main role of a Volunteer Coordinator is to ensure our organization has enough volunteer to fulfill its mission and goals.

❖ Develop and implement an aggressive volunteer recruitment program, utilizing various marketing techniques such as outreach programs, media, job fairs, community events and emails.

❖ Interview qualified volunteers, collecting information, availability, and skills.

Maintaining an up-to date database. We use an online volunteer management program called DonorView.

❖ Embellish and improve our comprehensive training programs and guidelines for volunteers.

❖ Work with appropriate management staff to meet their volunteer needs for activities and projects which include programs, ground maintenance, visitor center, special events, etc...

❖ Organize Park cleanup and invasive species removal projects, recruiting volunteers to keep them engaged.

❖ Be present during all large volunteer events. Supervision of volunteer efforts is delegated to the team in the area where the volunteers are assigned.

❖ Prepare volunteer displays and write volunteer articles for the Dragonfly

Newsletter.

❖ Provide for and develop volunteer recognition activities, awards, and other creative ways of recognizing volunteers.

❖ Prepare and file periodic reports on volunteer hours and projects.

❖ Assist other staff in the daily functions of the center as needed.

❖ Supervise and train the visitor center’s front desk volunteers. The visitor aides, as we call them, are tasked to greet visitors, sell items in our retail shop, answer

questions, answer our phones, transfer calls, and overall represent the center as the first people that visitors encounter when they enter building. Responsibility of the front desk coordination is a vital responsibility of the Coordinator of Volunteer position.

Qualifications

❖ Experience in volunteering and recruitment.
❖ Outgoing with a likable personality.
❖ Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
❖ Good working relationships with people of different personalities.
❖ Excellent organization and team-building skills.
❖ Ability to work flexible hours.
❖ Ability to do physical work projects, indoors & outdoors.

❖ Motivation to develop a working knowledge of the center’s, Point of Sale system

(QuickBooks POS), Microsoft Office, and DonorView.

❖ Ability to use social media as a marketing tool.

The Friends of Churchville Nature Center is a non-profit organization which works in cooperation with the Churchville Nature Center, a facility of the Bucks County

Department of Parks and Recreation, to promote and fulfill their mission. Although the

County of Bucks provides two staff (Director/Assistant Director) and resources for the facility, the friends help to provide resources for additional staff, educational programs, family events, as well as operates a native butterfly house and 1500’s era recreated Lenape

Village at the center. The friends also help to maintain the preserve and its trails, the wildlife gardens, and overall helps to provide a place for our community to connect with nature. The funds for the friends are raised primarily through membership, program fees, and special events.

Note: Although the Friends of Churchville Nature Center staff are not county employees, they are supervised by the two county staff in cooperation with the Friends Board of

Directors.

How to Apply

Please send cover letter and resume to:

Churchville Nature Center

501 Churchville Lane,

Churchville, PA 18966

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $17.00 - $18.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance

Schedule:

• 4 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• No nights
• Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

• Commission pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Southampton, PA 18966: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

License/Certification:

• Driver's License (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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