In Valuing Volunteer Management, we’ll look at the essential role of the leader and manager of volunteers. What do we know about Volunteer Resource Managers? How do / should they operate within 21st century organizations? How can we effectively lobby for more support?
With a mix of presentation and group discussion this workshop will leave you with at least one action to help you gain more influence within your organization.
Don't miss out on your opportunity to learn from Rob Jackson, an international leader, author, and trainer in the volunteer engagement field - Register now!
Rob Jackson has worked in the volunteering movement for more than two decades, during which time he has led and managed volunteers and volunteer programmes in education, advice, fundraising and children’s services settings at local, regional and national levels.
Rob worked for Volunteering England for six years, most of which he spent as Director of Development and Innovation. Rob successfully generated over £3million of income, led a merger with Student Volunteering England and oversaw the delivery of a number of strategic development projects in the volunteering field. Rob also provided the secretariat to the ground breaking Volunteer Rights Inquiry.
As well as his expertise in volunteerism, Rob has strong links with the fundraising world. He spent six years as a member of the Institute of Fundraising’s Standards Committee and chaired the Institute’s working party which developed the UK’s first code of good practice on volunteer fundraising.
In 2011 Rob established Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd and now provides consultancy, public speaking and training services on a range of topics, with strategic volunteer engagement remaining at the core of his work. Rob works with clients large and small in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and North America.
Rob continues to write extensively for the field. He co-authored the 2012 publication The Complete Volunteer Management Handbook, has his own blog and writes a monthly “Voice Of Volunteering” column for Third Sector Magazine online.
In 2015 Rob co-authored “From The Top Down - UK edition” with respected American author and consultant, Susan J Ellis. The book is the only one of it’s kind aimed at senior managers in Volunteer Involving Organisations to help them understand their key strategic roles in effective volunteer engagement.
Rob is an active volunteer, having previously served as chair of governors at a large Lincolnshire primary school. He is the founder and moderator of UKVPMs, the first email networking resource for UK based Volunteer Programme Managers and as a member of the editorial team for e-Volunteerism.com, an international journal on volunteering issues.
