What are the responsibilities and job description for the Divisional Volunteer and Christmas Coordinator position at The Salvation Army USA Central Territory?
Position Summary : Half of this position manages the divisional Christmas campaign to reach the annual goal. This will involve working closely with corps kettle coordinators and officers, completing necessary reports, and working with public relations staff for media purposes. This position will strategize with corps sites to cover red kettle locations with volunteers or hired staff to ensure income at each approved site.
The other half of this position oversees and manages the divisional volunteer program including volunteer recruitment, processing, approvals, training, tracking, and managing volunteers. This includes promoting and recruiting thousands of volunteers from corporations, community groups and individuals to ensure corps volunteer needs are met.
Essential Responsibilities :
Christmas Red Kettle Campaign
- Increase participation of community clubs and organizations throughout the year and especially during the red kettle season.
- Monitor and control the use of bell-ringing equipment and paid ringers to reduce expenses.
- Create new marketing techniques for both storefront and countertop kettle locations.
- Establish year-round Christmas Committee to support The Salvation Army's largest community fundraising campaign. This committee should include business leaders, coordinators, and persons for bell ringing sites.
- Develop and strengthen the Divisional Christmas Committee which would meet a minimum of three times a year and assist with red kettle fundraising.
- Develop productive bell-ringing locations, ensuring that the bell ringers at each location are representing The Salvation Army in a positive way.
- Schedule meetings with major retail divisional and regional managers with the Divisional Commander, City Commander, Executive Director of Development and / or other Development staff.
- In collaboration with corps staff and officers, meet with store managers at least once during the year and make a follow-up phone call during the campaign.
- Secure letters of release for liability from store managers to ensure that we can leave kettles at all major retail service desks (some stores will not allow this).
- Serve as liaison to connect and coordinate three division-wide metro area commands to insure consistency in fundraising practices.
- Serve as liaison to THQ for Christmas information and brand standards.
- Handle logistics for the National Red Kettle Google / Apple Pay program and refer any technical questions to the digital marketing team, THQ, or NHQ as appropriate.
- Create and manage the red kettle reports passing along correspondence onto the appropriate people.
- Manage seasonal staff as assigned.
- Thank you letters to host locations and sponsors.
- Manage RegistertoRing.com bell ringer database.
- At times will need to travel within the Great Lakes Division and Detroit Metro area.
Volunteer Management
Qualifications :
Education / Experience :
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities :
Computer Skills :
Certificates and Licenses :
