EVS volunteer management: training design

Aims of the tool

This design was created to support the quality of volunteer management with EVS volunteers. It is one of the outcomes of the international project called “EVSification”, implemented by three partner organizations: Cluj-Napoca Volunteer Centre (Romania), Fundacja Edukacji Rozwoju Społeczenstwa Obywatelskiego (Poland) and Centrumdobrovolníctva (Slovakia).

Description of the tool

EVS volunteer management: training design can be used as a whole training design for future EVS volunteer coordinators, but also you can use just some parts (sections or methods) from it. Practically, the participants of the training, based on the training design, will develop competences as the following:
•Knowledge about the nine steps in volunteer management: preparation, recruitment, selection, orientation/training, supervision, monitoring, motivation, recognition, monitoring and evaluation;
•Ability to manage a volunteer using the nine steps method;
•Knowledge about the different instruments specific for each step in volunteer management and ability to use this instruments;
•Non-biased attitudes towards the volunteers;
•Knowledge about the basic frame and context of Erasmus+ and European Voluntary Service;
•Knowledge about the different roles and responsibilities of main actors in EVS projects;
•Knowledge about the differences and commons between steps in EVS projects and steps in volunteer management;
•Ability to raise the level of personal awareness among the EVS volunteers;
•Ability to facilitate the learning for the EVS volunteers;
•Ability to encourage the volunteers in their personal development;
•Communication skills, skills in team work and skills in conflict prevention and resolution.

At the beginning of the publication you can find time table of the training with specific sections, aims of the sections for the trainers and outcomes for participants. After this there is a list of methods for each session. Each method is on a separate page, so you can print just a method you want to use.