Volunteer Opportunities
Director of Community Engagement (~ 6 to 8 hours per week)
A Faith That Does Justice (AFTDJ) is an interfaith organization that challenges people to experience God by living their faith intentionally in service to others. We do this by showing how unjust societal structures marginalize people and by acting to help those in need. Our vision is people intentionally living their faith in action.
The Director of Community Engagement is responsible for formulating and executing the engagement strategy that will enable AFTDJ to fulfill its mission and to achieve its aspiration. Promoting AFTDJ to its stakeholders including followers, volunteers, and social service organizations is the essence of the Director’s role. The increasing reach of AFTDJ and its growing connections and engagement with the communities that it serves are the principal measures of success of the Director of Community Engagement.
Our outreach to stakeholders and its related goals are:
- Marginalized People – Build engagement with communities of marginalized people, provide events that are targeted to marginalized people, and increase their participation in our workshops, community meetings and live stream events
- Organizations that Serve Marginalized People – Build partnerships with organizations that served marginalized people, so we are better able to meet the needs of the marginalized and to develop opportunities for our followers to put their faith in action by directly serving the marginalized
- Followers – Strengthen our engagement with followers and increase participation at community meetings, workshops and live stream events
- Divinity Schools and Church Leaders – Obtain contributions to The Weekly Word and speaking engagements for Fr. Peter
The Director of Community Engagement will work closely with the AFTDJ Director of Operations, the Founder and Executive Director, the Director of Advancement and the Public Relations Consultant in carrying out her responsibilities. The Director of Community Engagement will provide leadership and oversight to other AFTDJ volunteers engaged in outreach efforts.
Director of Volunteer Engagement (~ 10 hours per week)
A Faith That Does Justice (AFTDJ) is an interfaith organization that challenges people to experience God by living their faith intentionally in service to others. We do this by showing how unjust societal structures marginalize people and by acting to help those in need. Our vision is people intentionally living their faith in action.
The Director of Volunteer Engagement provides virtual oversight and management of the volunteer program for AFTDJ. Critical to this role are the abilities to build strong partnerships both inside and outside AFTDJ and to recruit, place and retain a diverse and energized group of dedicated volunteer resources. Working with other AFTDJ Core Volunteers, the Director of Volunteer Engagement will work to expand the number of volunteer opportunities and ensure that vital AFTDJ operations are appropriately staffed to meet organization’s mission and goals. The Director of Volunteer Engagement will periodically interact with other volunteers to ensure that they remain committed to service with AFTDJ and have a rewarding personal and developmental experience while volunteering.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop, implement and manage a new volunteer strategy that offers volunteers a meaningful, long term relationship with AFTDJ
- Work with other core volunteers to assess opportunities and needs for volunteers develop innovative opportunities for volunteer service throughout the organization
- Maintain a list of all volunteer roles with the focus on those that are “open”
- Maintain open volunteer position listings in VolunteerMatch and the AFTDJ website
- Respond to in-person, telephone, email and web communications from both prospective and active volunteers
- Recruit, screen, orient and match highly skilled volunteers with appropriate opportunities
- Work with other volunteer leaders to create volunteer policies and procedures, including volunteer forms, volunteer position role descriptions, volunteer handbook and a code of conduct
- Create volunteer orientation materials and work with other core volunteers to develop and administer program-specific volunteer training materials, as needed
- Determine communication protocols for volunteers and those working with them
- Promote the volunteer program, recruit volunteers, and significantly grow volunteer participation through public presentations, social media, the website, and volunteer events
- Maintain a reporting system to collect and track all volunteer information and participation
- Evaluate and mitigate risks associated with volunteer positions and ensure controls are in place to protect volunteers, programs, AFTDJ and the community
- Assist with conflict resolution among volunteers
- Train core volunteers to work effectively and cooperatively with supporting volunteers in their area of focus
- Create and implement a volunteer recognition program and activities
- Provide periodic updates on status and priorities to other volunteer leaders
Director of Events ~ 8 to 12 hours per week
A Faith That Does Justice (AFTDJ) is an interfaith organization that challenges people to experience God by living their faith intentionally in service to others. We do this by showing how unjust societal structures marginalize people and by acting to help those in need. Our vision is people intentionally living their faith in action.
We are seeking a creative Director of Events to develop and execute 3 Community Meetings, 4 English and 3 Spanish Workshops annually. The ideal candidate can:
- Lead an event from idea generation to execution
- Strong attention to detail and highly organized to keep event planning on schedule
- Enjoys working collaboratively with other AFTDJ volunteers
- Able to develop a plan and follow through and make needed modifications as the plan unfolds
- Has an event schedule that provides ample time for publicity
- Plan, organize, and run pre-event meetings with event panelists and AFTDJ volunteers to ensure a successful event
- Assist with recruitment of Community Meeting Panelists and Workshop presenters
- Recruit volunteers for in-person Community Meetings
- Maintain a pipeline of potential workshop presenters
- Work on different events concurrently
- Organize and run virtual meetings
- Able to assist with setting up a Zoom webinar by providing event description, questions for registrants
- Comfortable with or willing to learn about various Zoom webinar and meeting controls
- Comfortable with or willing to learn about roles in a webinar: Host, Co-Host, Panelist, Attendee
- Able to hold a practice session in preparation for a Community Meeting
- Work closely with the Directors of Community Engagement, Volunteer Engagement, and Marketing & Communications to increase event attendance
- Send event flyers to partner organizations according to publicity schedule
- Manage volunteer callers, including creating call lists & instructions, to promote events to partner organization