{"id":776,"date":"2015-03-11T10:05:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T10:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/?p=776"},"modified":"2015-03-12T22:32:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T22:32:35","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-a-volunteer-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/2015\/03\/11\/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-volunteer-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"A day in the life of a Volunteer Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.woc2015.org\/\">The World Orienteering Championships <\/a>start at the end of July 2015. As a minority sport, this event is being delivered by a tiny group\u00a0of part-time professionals and a large &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.woc2015.org\/volunteers\/event-team\">Event Team<\/a>&#8221; of volunteers. I&#8217;m the Volunteer Manager and I&#8217;m a volunteer.\u00a0Our event team currently stands at 400 and I&#8217;m pleased to say that all lead\u00a0posts have been filled. We are still building the delivery team and expect to reach around 600 volunteers in total.<\/p>\n<p>The event is now hitting the <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/insidemoray.scot\/thumbs-up-for-world-event-set-to-take-moray-and-highlands-by-storm\/\">local press\u00a0<\/a>and volunteers are pouring into my inbox. We are appointing and organising, informing and introducing, nurturing and updating a workforce that is spread all over the UK and Europe. We have sports people\u00a0specialising in\u00a0planning and event organisation. And we have volunteers with experience gained at the London Olympics and Glasgow Commonwealth Games. \u00a0I&#8217;d love to be sharing what we are doing as\u00a0we are doing it. But we are just too busy\u00a0getting on with it. All I can do for now is share some advice about what I think is helping:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>start early &#8211; thank goodness I started 3 years ago<\/li>\n<li>plan for scale &#8211; we built and refined our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woc2015.org\/volunteers\/opportunities\">opportunities <\/a>pages, and our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woc2015.org\/volunteers\/join-the-event-team#mc_embed_signup\">sign up system<\/a>\u00a0before the rush<\/li>\n<li>build up healthy\u00a0working relationships &#8211; I&#8217;m enjoying\u00a0the strong and trusted relationships that I have with colleagues<\/li>\n<li>build a good team around you &#8211; my\u00a0collaborative and good-humoured team are one of the highlights of this event for me. We\u00a0Skype&#8217;s fortnightly and keep in close touch<\/li>\n<li>talk to people &#8211; you can feel like a real human being, achieve good\u00a0things, and avoid painful misunderstandings by speaking sometimes instead of e-mailing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A typical day in the life of an Event Volunteer Manager starts at 7, ends at 11, includes a run and far too much time at a computer. It has laughs and lists of lists and occasional desk-thumping frustrations. Overall it is pretty damn good. I haven&#8217;t got time to write a day in the life. When it is all over I&#8217;ll write about\u00a0how we did it.\u00a0Let&#8217;s get there first!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Orienteering Championships start at the end of July 2015. As a minority sport, this event is being delivered by a tiny group\u00a0of part-time professionals and a large &#8220;Event Team&#8221; of volunteers. I&#8217;m the Volunteer Manager and I&#8217;m a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/2015\/03\/11\/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-volunteer-manager\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","category-volunteer-manager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}