Volunteer Coordinator
General Info
- Sits in the Exec cluster of Festcomm
- Attends biweekly Festcomm meetings January-July
- Core email: volunteer@fireflyartscollective.org
- Included in the planning@fireflyartscollective.org mailing list with all cluster and core leads
- Included in the festival@fireflyartscollective.org mailing list with all of Exec cluster and all cluster leads
Responsibilities
- Helping to fill core and cluster lead roles
- Clarifying and promoting shift roles
- Giving core leads access to update their shifts on the website
- Assigning leads to email lists (once they have a Firefly email)
- Fielding questions about volunteering
Important skills
- Email skills. The only contact info we're guaranteed to have for volunteers is their email address, and we communicate with them en masse via mailing lists. Figuring out which roles need to be filled and trying to fill them requires keeping track of a lot of emails. The VC needs to be the person who follows up with people who forget to respond, not the person who forgets to respond.
- Being on top of deadlines
- Proactively asking people for things
- Writing in a way that is concise, direct, and persuasive
Motto
Always Be Thanking. Everyone you work with is a volunteer and can walk away at any time.