Volunteer manager to employee volunteering programme coordinator
A volunteer manager already meets 83% of what the employee volunteering programme coordinator role asks for. The move turns on 3 required skills not yet in the profile.
18.2/ 100
1 How much of what an employee volunteering programme coordinator is expected to do is already part of a volunteer manager’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the employee volunteering programme coordinator role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
An employee volunteering programme coordinator role treats 14 of its required skills as things a volunteer manager already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- capacity building
- cooperate with colleagues
- coordinate events
- create social alliances
- data protection
- evaluate social work program's impact
What stands in the way is 3 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 20 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. An employee volunteering programme coordinator role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a volunteer manager background worth leading with.
- already held humanitarian aid social sciences, journalism and information
- already held capacity building education
- already held create social alliances communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held validation of learning acquired through volunteering education
- already held monitor social impact information skills
- already held sustainable development goals social sciences, journalism and information
All 20 carried skills, including the 14 the employee volunteering programme coordinator role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 4 missing skills fall into 3 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn build business relationships required
- optional, not held train employees optional
- still to learn corporate social responsibility required
- still to learn health and safety regulations required
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries an employee volunteering programme coordinator role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 corporate social responsibility study this
- 02 build business relationships practise this
- 03 health and safety regulations study this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 20 skills that carry over
- already held capacity building knowledge
- already held cooperate with colleagues skill
- already held coordinate events skill
- already held create social alliances skill
- already held data protection knowledge
- already held evaluate social work program's impact skill
- already held give constructive feedback skill
- already held project management knowledge
- already held promote inclusion skill
- already held promote social change skill
- already held recruit personnel skill
- already held relate empathetically skill
- already held show intercultural awareness skill
- already held work within communities skill
- already held data analytics knowledge
- already held humanitarian aid knowledge
- already held maintain contract administration skill
- already held monitor social impact skill
- already held sustainable development goals knowledge
- already held validation of learning acquired through volunteering knowledge
1 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held train employees optional
24 held skills the employee volunteering programme coordinator role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role advocate for others skill
- not needed by the target role analyse community needs skill
- not needed by the target role animate in the outdoors skill
- not needed by the target role brief volunteers skill
- not needed by the target role communicate with elderly groups skill
- not needed by the target role communicate with youth skill
- not needed by the target role digital marketing techniques knowledge
- not needed by the target role identify sources on potential target communities for art skill
- not needed by the target role labour law knowledge
- not needed by the target role lead a team skill
- not needed by the target role leadership principles knowledge
- not needed by the target role manage fundraising activities skill
- not needed by the target role manage health and safety skill
- not needed by the target role manage online volunteers skill
- not needed by the target role manage volunteering programmes skill
- not needed by the target role manage volunteers skill
- not needed by the target role monitor charity's budget skill
- not needed by the target role observe confidentiality skill
- not needed by the target role perform project management skill
- not needed by the target role plan youth programmes skill
- not needed by the target role study community as a target community skill
- not needed by the target role train volunteers skill
- not needed by the target role types of digital badges knowledge
- not needed by the target role use communication techniques skill
2 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- still to learn corporate social responsibility required
- still to learn health and safety regulations required
Other moves recorded from volunteer manager
Common questions about this move
Can a volunteer manager become an employee volunteering programme coordinator?
Yes, and it is an adjacent move. A volunteer manager already covers 83% of what an employee volunteering programme coordinator is expected to do: 20 skills carry over, 14 of which the employee volunteering programme coordinator role treats as required.
What skills does a volunteer manager need to become an employee volunteering programme coordinator?
3 required skills are missing, plus 1 optional ones. They fall into 3 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by communication, collaboration and creativity. The single most important is corporate social responsibility.
How hard is the move from volunteer manager to employee volunteering programme coordinator?
Its learning distance is 18.2 out of 100, which is the adjacent band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.